THIS WEEK: Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower

THE WORLD IS ENDING! Again. Doomsdayers and apocalyptic prophets have warned of coming calamity for millennia. Still,  humanity persists. Today’s challenges – staggering economic and social inequality, threat of nuclear annihilation, climate change  – while overwhelming and seemingly insurmountable, are not unprecedented. What can we learn from past catastrophes? How can we best prepare for future peril? What might the end of the world actually look like?! This book club explores literary world endings. 

This program is free and open to the public and is graciously hosted in partnership with the Stanley Museum of Art.

Wednesday, March 11, 2020 Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

Wednesday, March 25 Leigh Brackett, The Long Tomorrow

Wednesday, April 1 Katharine Burdekin, Swastika Night

Wednesday, April 8 Mary Shelley, The Last Man

Wednesday, April 15 Margaret Cavendish, The Blazing World

Wednesday, April 22, Nostradamus, The Complete Prophecies of Nostradamus

THIS WEEK: Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death

THE WORLD IS ENDING! Again. Doomsdayers and apocalyptic prophets have warned of coming calamity for millennia. Still,  humanity persists. Today’s challenges – staggering economic and social inequality, threat of nuclear annihilation, climate change  – while overwhelming and seemingly insurmountable, are not unprecedented. What can we learn from past catastrophes? How can we best prepare for future peril? What might the end of the world actually look like?! This book club explores literary world endings. 

This program is free and open to the public and is graciously hosted in partnership with the Stanley Museum of Art.

Wednesday, March 4, 2020 Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower

Wednesday, March 11, 2020 Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

Wednesday, March 25 Leigh Brackett, The Long Tomorrow

Wednesday, April 1 Katharine Burdekin, Swastika Night

Wednesday, April 8 Mary Shelley, The Last Man

Wednesday, April 15 Margaret Cavendish, The Blazing World

Wednesday, April 22, Nostradamus, The Complete Prophecies of Nostradamus

THIS WEEK: Lucy Corin, One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses

THE WORLD IS ENDING! Again. Doomsdayers and apocalyptic prophets have warned of coming calamity for millennia. Still,  humanity persists. Today’s challenges – staggering economic and social inequality, threat of nuclear annihilation, climate change  – while overwhelming and seemingly insurmountable, are not unprecedented. What can we learn from past catastrophes? How can we best prepare for future peril? What might the end of the world actually look like?! This book club explores literary world endings. 

This program is free and open to the public and is graciously hosted in partnership with the Stanley Museum of Art.

Wednesday, February 26, 2020: Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death

Wednesday, March 4, 2020Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower

Wednesday, March 11, 2020 Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

Wednesday, March 25 Leigh Brackett, The Long Tomorrow

Wednesday, April 1 Katharine Burdekin, Swastika Night

Wednesday, April 8 Mary Shelley, The Last Man

Wednesday, April 15 Margaret Cavendish, The Blazing World

Wednesday, April 22, Nostradamus, The Complete Prophecies of Nostradamus

THIS WEEK: Ling Ma, Severance

THE WORLD IS ENDING! Again. Doomsdayers and apocalyptic prophets have warned of coming calamity for millennia. Still,  humanity persists. Today’s challenges – staggering economic and social inequality, threat of nuclear annihilation, climate change  – while overwhelming and seemingly insurmountable, are not unprecedented. What can we learn from past catastrophes? How can we best prepare for future peril? What might the end of the world actually look like?! This book club explores literary world endings. 

This program is free and open to the public and is graciously hosted in partnership with the Stanley Museum of Art.

Wednesday, February 19, 2020: Lucy Corin, One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses.

Wednesday, February 26, 2020: Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death

Wednesday, March 4, 2020Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower

Wednesday, March 11, 2020 Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

Wednesday, March 25 Leigh Brackett, The Long Tomorrow

Wednesday, April 1 Katharine Burdekin, Swastika Night

Wednesday, April 8 Mary Shelley, The Last Man

Wednesday, April 15 Margaret Cavendish, The Blazing World

Wednesday, April 22, Nostradamus, The Complete Prophecies of Nostradamus

This month’s Free Generative Writing Workshop, hosted by Iowa City Poetry and Prompt Press, is led by Rebecca Entel.

Adults writing in all genres at all levels are welcome!

Rebecca Entel is the author of the novel Fingerprints of Previous Owners (Unnamed Press, 2017). Her short stories and essays have been published in such journals asGuernica, Joyland, Cleaver, Literary Hub, Catapult, andElectric Literature. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Wisconsin, she is currently an Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Cornell College, where she teaches courses in creative writing, multicultural American literature, Caribbean literature, and the literature of social justice. Learn more at rebeccaentel.com and connect @rebeccaentel.

The Free Generative Writing Workshops are Iowa City's only monthly program that brings together adult writers of all levels to have their imaginations sparked by our area's most talented writers and teachers, at absolutely no cost. The goal is to create a supportive environment where participants can generate new writing and meet others interested in the same. Each month a different talented writer-teacher from our area will invite us to write from an original prompt—and then compose along beside us as we explore where that prompt leads. After writing, we'll have the option to share what we've created and receive feedback.

The Free Generative Writing Workshops are sponsored by Iowa City Poetry and Prompt Press. Find out more about the workshops by visiting www.freegenerative.org.

Join us this Sunday, December 15th, 5:30-7:00 pm, when stunning writer and performer Steven Willis leads the workshop! Adults writing in all genres & at all levels are always welcome.

Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, Steven Antoine Willis uses his writing background to creatively articulate the intricacies of African American culture. Willis began doing Spoken Word at 15 as a participant in Louder Than a Bomb and rose to become a member of the Nuyorican Slam Team, as well as a featured performer at All Def Poetry. Willis is a contributing writer to the BreakBeat Poets Anthology, NYU’s National Council for Teachers of English Journal, Manhattanville College’s Graffiti Magazine, and is a 3-time Individual World Poetry Slam Finalist. He is currently an MFA Acting Candidate at the University of Iowa in Iowa City.

The Free Generative Writing Workshop provides a space for career writers, curious beginners, writers of all income levels and stages of life. Our goal is to make it easy to meet and learn from some of the most talented writer/teachers living in or passing through Iowa City. Every month a new writer leads a generative workshop, presenting a prompt inspired by their own preoccupations, passions, or interests.

Workshops are always free, and adults writing in all genres at all levels are welcome. Bring

This month’s workshop leader is Tonja Robins.

Robins, a native of Illinois, has published a collection of poems, Poetryland, about World Heritage site Cahokia Mounds located just east of St. Louis. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina—Greensboro and currently lives and teaches in Iowa City, IA. Her poems have appeared in Sun Dog: Southeastern Review, Greensboro Review, Corraddi, Coe Review, Fertile Source, Prairie Wolf Press, the Lunar Calendar and Blue Pitcher among other places.

Free & open to all — bring something to write with and on!
Brought to you by Iowa City Poetry & Prompt Press
For more information: freegenerative.org

Daniel Boscaljon is an independent scholar who lives in Iowa City. His emphasis is on a thoughtful, lived humanism— especially as experienced in the arts. He has published two stories in Little Village, as well as numerous reviews of art and interviews with artists of all kinds. He is the author of Vigilant Faith, and an editor/contributor to three other books of theology. His current project is “Making Space for Yourself,” a meditative workshop in the form of a podcast that can be found on his website: Danielboscaljon.com

I Heart Black Business is kicking off the summer with a party! Celebrate the small black-owned businesses of Johnson County and get to know their owners!

Doors at 8pm, $1 entry

Festivities include:
• Music video premiere for Prodagy's newest single, "100K"
• Music provided by DJ Prodagy
• Performance by ADE
• Food, fun, and giveaways!

More info/FB event

Free & open to all — bring something to write with and on!
Brought to you by Iowa City Poetry & Prompt Press
For more information: freegenerative.org

Elizabeth Weiss earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was a Truman Capote Fellow. She has taught writing at the University of Iowa. Her non-fiction has been published on the New Yorker web site, and her debut novel is forthcoming from the Dial Press.

Year-end student arts showcase hosted by earthwords, the UI undergraduate literary review.

Andromeda Podcast, Intersection, Black Art; Real Stories - #BARS, University of Iowa English Society, featured printmaker, Sadie Goll, featured Fiction Writer, Emma Fenstermaker, Children of the Clay, and Student Video Productions (SVP).

Booths, performances, readings, FREE FOOD, and we are unveiling the SVP-produced short film written by our "Five Minute Flick" contest winner Sarah Bridgeport!!!

More info at: https://www.facebook.com/events/2213127412333983/

Dreamwell Theatre presents "Really" written by Jackie Sibblies Drury and directed by Bries Vannon. Performance dates are Feb. 8/9 and 15/16 at Public Space One, 120 N. Dubuque St., Iowa City (in the basement of the Wesley Center). Tickets are $13 regular, $10 student/seniors. As always, the first Saturday show is Pay What You Can Night!

Synopsis: Calvin is a successful photographer who has suddenly and unexpectedly died. Reeling from the death, Calvin’s mother and his girlfriend (also a photographer) struggle with loss, memory, and each other over the course of a single photo session. A stunning portrait of quiet pain, Jackie Sibblies Drury’s “Really” illuminates the subtlety of grief in a world where photographs are ubiquitous reminders of what has been lost.

Cast:
Mother: Linda Merritt
Girlfriend: Rachel Sullivan
Calvin: Chris Walbert

Dreamwell Theatre presents "Really" written by Jackie Sibblies Drury and directed by Bries Vannon. Performance dates are Feb. 8/9 and 15/16 at Public Space One, 120 N. Dubuque St., Iowa City (in the basement of the Wesley Center). Tickets are $13 regular, $10 student/seniors. As always, the first Saturday show is Pay What You Can Night!

Synopsis: Calvin is a successful photographer who has suddenly and unexpectedly died. Reeling from the death, Calvin’s mother and his girlfriend (also a photographer) struggle with loss, memory, and each other over the course of a single photo session. A stunning portrait of quiet pain, Jackie Sibblies Drury’s “Really” illuminates the subtlety of grief in a world where photographs are ubiquitous reminders of what has been lost.

Cast:
Mother: Linda Merritt
Girlfriend: Rachel Sullivan
Calvin: Chris Walbert

Laced Love is an art exhibit that shows one's inner feelings of love through psychedelic attributes portraying the feeling of being drunk or high off of love.

Dreamwell Theatre presents "Really" written by Jackie Sibblies Drury and directed by Bries Vannon. Performance dates are Feb. 8/9 and 15/16 at Public Space One, 120 N. Dubuque St., Iowa City (in the basement of the Wesley Center). Tickets are $13 regular, $10 student/seniors. As always, the first Saturday show is Pay What You Can Night!

Synopsis: Calvin is a successful photographer who has suddenly and unexpectedly died. Reeling from the death, Calvin’s mother and his girlfriend (also a photographer) struggle with loss, memory, and each other over the course of a single photo session. A stunning portrait of quiet pain, Jackie Sibblies Drury’s “Really” illuminates the subtlety of grief in a world where photographs are ubiquitous reminders of what has been lost.

Cast:
Mother: Linda Merritt
Girlfriend: Rachel Sullivan
Calvin: Chris Walbert