Nonfiction

Articles:
The Examined Life: Writing and the Art of Medicine Conference
Novel conceived at the UI begins week of Writing University streams
The Iowa Review Awards Now Accepting Submissions
Iowa and Invisible Man: Making Blackness Visible
UI to Offer MFA in Spanish Creative Writing
The Iowa Review’s Fall Issue
Reykjavik becomes the fifth UNESCO City of Literature
Bookworms Unite at Iowa City Book Festival
2011 Iowa City Book Festival
Iowa City Book Festival in Oprah’s ‘O’ Magazine
BOOKMARKS Book Art of Johnson County Debuts
New Archived Readings: Levine, Glazer, Orner and more
IC Literary Walk Expanding to the North Side
Online Journals by UI Alumni: Transom and Wag’s Revue
“Writers Gone Public” Readings
McGurl’s ‘The Program Era’ Wins Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism
Iowa Writers’ Workshop Featured on PBS “News Hour”
Mission Creek Festival Literary Lineup
IWP alum Hamdy El-Gazzar shares his experience in Egypt
Wayne Koestenbaum to present public reading
2011 Iowa Summer Writing Festival Now Accepting Registrations
IWP Alum Ghada Abdel Aal in Egypt
New Video Series ‘On the Fly’
Hot Tin Roof Writing Contest
New iPhone app: Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature
IWP Starts Year with Three Free Events
Director Amy Margolis’s Reflections on the Iowa Summer Writing Festival
Wag’s Revue Features 5 University of Iowa Authors
Writers’ Workshop Graduate Catherine Knepper Helps Authors Get Published
Marylinne Robinson on The Daily Show
The Daily Palette: A Website for Iowa Artists and Writers
“Elevenses” Open the Iowa Summer Writing Festival to the Public
Iowa City Book Festival, July 16-18
Seth Lerer Wins 2010 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism
New In-Depth Biography Project Underway
Four UI Grads Featured in ‘Best Women’s Travel Writing 2010’
UI Patient Voice Project Helps Tap into Creative Strength
Veterans invited to free UI Midwest Writers Workshop
Launch of eXchanges Winter Issue
Poets & Writers Magazine Ranks Iowa #1
UI Libraries Host the ‘Iowa City Book Festival’ July 18
Live Discussion: UI Nonfiction’s Robin Hemley Online Chat
‘Elevenses’ Literary Hour Opens the Iowa Summer Writing Festival to the Public
Workshop Alum Rao’s Novel ‘In Hanuman’s Hands’ Reviewed
Robin Hemley’s Article ‘The Great Book Blockade of 2009’ Sparks International Attention
91st Meridian’s New Issue Online
‘The Examined Life’ Conference Focuses on Creative Writing in Medical Education
Review: UI Nonfiction Director Hemley’s ‘Do Over’
UNESCO Gala Event at the Englert Theater, April 7
Iowa Summer Writing Festival 2009 Registration Now Open
Writing Acts as Therapy, UI Researcher Finds
‘Pulitzer Town’ Timeline Highlights Iowa City’s Prize Recipients
UNESCO designates Iowa City as the world’s third City of Literature
Workshop alum Michael Judge’s op-ed ‘After the Flood’
The Patient Voice Project Awarded Major Project Grant
eXchanges Winter Issue “Black and White” Released
Formal Application Seeks to Designate Iowa City as UNESCO City of Literature
UI Museum of Art Hosts Writer-in-Residence Program
‘Dream Not of Other Worlds,’ by Huston Diehl
To Do: “Translating the Music of Poetry,” ‘Best New Poets,’ and Tony Eprile on the Art of Seeing
“Ariadne,” by Janani Sreenivasan
Listen: Ryan Van Meter and Vershawn Ashanti Young
“My Father in White, Above the Royal Blue,” by Doug Hesse
Call for Proposals: 2007 NonfictioNow Conference
“That Glorious Time of Old,” by Mary Swander
W.D. Snodgrass and Lia Purpura Finalists for NBCC Awards
Rebecca Sheir (NWP, ‘06) on Public Radio This Weekend
Pico Iyer Interview: “Every writer is an outsider on the subject he is writing about”
NY Times Names Trussoni’s Memoir to “10 Best Books of 2006”
“The Best Museum Benches in the Country” & Other Podcasts

Podcasts:
Carl H. Klaus: “Days into Daybooks, a Voice for All Seasons”
Marilyn Abildskov - “Leap: Imagination in Nonfiction”
Christine Hemp on Writing About Happiness

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Past Events:
David Rakoff reading: cancelled, 12/05/11
Sigrid Nunez reading, 10/31/11
Sigrid Nunez reading, 10/31/11
Buzz Alexander reading, 10/29/11
Wendy Call & Midge Raymond reading, 10/18/11
Spanish Literary Recital reading, 10/14/11
Robert Morgan reading, 10/09/11
Maggie Nelson reading, 10/03/11
Christopher Merrill reading, 9/20/11
Iowa Review reading, 8/25/11
Dr. Paul Farmer lecture, 8/24/11
The Eleventh Hour: Mary Allen—The Slow-Developing Picture: Writing a Family Memoir, 7/28/11
The Eleventh Hour: Sam Samuels—Writing The Query Letter, 7/27/11
The Eleventh Hour: Robert Siegel—Haiku for Prose Writers: Exploring the Power of the Image, 7/26/11
The Eleventh Hour: Hugh Ferrer—A Word from Dr. Frankenstein: Giving Life to Fiction, 7/25/11
The Eleventh Hour: Susan Taylor Chehak—This is Your Brain on Books, 7/21/11
The Eleventh Hour: Fritz McDonald—Fact vs. Fiction: Why Memoir Needs Both, 7/20/11
The Eleventh Hour: Kate Aspengren—27 Things You’ve Always Wanted To Know About Playwriti, 7/19/11
The Eleventh Hour: Eula Biss—Research and the Personal Essay, 7/18/11
The Eleventh Hour: Kathleen Rooney—The Evilly Compounded, Vital I: Point of View in Creative N, 7/14/11
Jerry Harp reading, 7/13/11
The Eleventh Hour: Megan Gogerty—A Guy Walks Into A Bar, and other Perception Shifts, 7/13/11
The Eleventh Hour: Venise Berry—Clarity and Depth, 7/12/11
The Eleventh Hour: John Dalton—What do Readers of Fiction Most Value in a Novel?, 7/11/11
The Eleventh Hour: James Allen Hall—Don’t Stand So Close to Me: Strategic Uses of Point , 6/30/11
Brent Spencer reading, 6/29/11
The Eleventh Hour: Jim Heynen & Panel—The Place of Conviction and Belief in our Writing, 6/29/11
Jessica O’Dwyer reading, 6/28/11
The Eleventh Hour: Karen Bender—The 10 Commandments for Becoming a Writer, 6/28/11
Tom Montgomery-Fate reading, 6/27/11
The Eleventh Hour: Tim Bascom—Party Line: Finding a More Purposeful Feedback for Our Writing, 6/27/11
The Eleventh Hour: Elizabeth Robinson—How to Submit to Literary Periodicals, 6/21/11
Betty Auchard reading, 6/14/11
The Writer as Public Figure, 6/11/11
Keynote Address: “The Workshop as Phenomenon,” Marilynne Robinson, 6/09/11
Lisa Napoli reading, 5/31/11
Community Stories Writing Workshop at The Iowa City Shelter House reading, 5/26/11
Older Americans Month reading, 5/06/11
PEN World Voices Festival, 5/02/11
Earthwords reading, 4/30/11
Ryan Van Meter reading, 4/27/11
Examined Life Conference reading, 4/22/11
Dan Savage reading, 4/17/11
Jerald Walker reading, 4/15/11
Margo Jefferson reading, 4/13/11
Peter Orner reading, 3/30/11
Joy Castro reading, 3/23/11
Wayne Koestenbaum reading, 3/02/11
Paul’s Book Club, 2/25/11
The Wapsipinicon Almanac reading, 1/21/11
Nora Titone reading, 12/07/10
J. Harley McIlrath reading, 11/18/10
Dr. Bruce Hopkins reading, 11/09/10
Tom Larson reading, 11/06/10
R. Tripp Evans reading, 11/05/10
Rebekah Kowal reading, 11/04/10
Carl Klaus reading, 11/03/10
Ira Sukrungruang reading, 11/01/10
Rebecca Skloot reading, 10/29/10
Tom Grimes reading, 10/28/10
Michele Norris reading, 10/22/10
Ari Berman reading, 10/21/10
Gordon Grice reading, 10/18/10
David Shenk reading, 10/08/10
Robert Michael Pyle reading, 9/22/10
David Herlihy reading, 9/20/10
Rowan Jacobson reading, 9/19/10
Bonnie Rough reading, 9/16/10
Jeanette Walls reading, 9/10/10
Iowa Review Reading, 8/30/10
Emily Gould reading, 8/26/10
John E. Langhorne reading, 8/17/10
Alexa Stevenson reading, 8/09/10
J.C. Hallman reading, 8/05/10
Elevenses: Faculty Reading, 7/30/10
Arthur Allen Reading, 7/28/10
Elevenses: BK Loren & Sarah Saffian, 7/28/10
Elevenses: Hope Edelman, 7/27/10
Elevenses: Kelly Dwyer, 7/26/10
Elevenses: Faculty Reading, 7/23/10
Steven and Reefka Schneider reading, 7/21/10
Elevenses: BK Loren, 7/21/10
Father Greg Boyle reading, 7/20/10
Jeffrey Zaslow Reading, 7/17/10
Stephen Kuusisto Reading, 7/17/10
Iowa City Book Festival Author Dinner, 7/16/10
Author Dinner, 7/16/10
Elevenses: Faculty Reading, 7/16/10
Frank Meeink reading, 7/13/10
Elevenses: Linda Bendorf, 7/13/10
Elevenses: Leslie Schwartz, 7/12/10
Elevenses: Faculty Reading, 7/02/10
Elevenses: Nancy Barry, 6/30/10
Jennifer Rosner reading, 6/29/10
Elevenses: Lon Otto, 6/29/10
Elevenses: Carl Klaus, 6/28/10
Ann Linnea reading, 6/25/10
Elevenses: Faculty Reading, 6/25/10
Wayne Johnson and Karen Subach reading, 6/24/10
Elevenses: Kyle Beachy, 6/24/10