Little Engines presents Morning, Fuckers: a traveling series for early risers. Join us for a Lit Walk-adjacent gathering of coffee, donuts, and short readings from seven authors. Featured Authors: Adam Voith, Avery Gregurich, Kyle Seibel, Julián Martinez, Kevin Allardice, Kat Hirsch, Warren C. Longmire, and Mike Nagel.
8th annual ICE CREAM: Iowa City Expo for Comics and Real Eclectic Alternative Media — dozens of artists and small presses from IC and across the Midwest. Print will never die, says ICE CREAM!
Not to be missed this year is the Small Press and Literary Magazine Book Fair, being hosted inside the second floor of Spare Me Bowling Alley. This singular event highlights the best of local and national presses, as well as the work of award-winning authors and publishers. This year’s featured presses also include: YesYes Books […]
Join translators and publishers Will Evans (Deep Vellum & Dalkey Archive & Open Letters), Bela Shayevich (University of Iowa), and Gary Lovely (Two Dollar Radio) for a timely and necessary conversation on the magic and art of translation in literary publishing. Will Evans is a publisher, translator, and entrepreneur with a knack for finding undertold, […]
Srikanth Reddy is a poet, literary editor, and occasional book critic with an interest in inkblots, underworlds, erasures, and uncertain translations, among other topics. Since 2003, he has taught at the University of Chicago, where he offers courses on parody, obscenity, and contemporary literary publishing. His latest book of poetry, Underworld Lit, was a finalist […]
While music hits The ReUnion Brewery stage, flip through record crates from local vendors to find your next prized music possession! Vendors include: Bog’s Vinyl, Z’s Records, and Vinyl Underground Garage
Samuel Locke Ward is a veteran avant-pop songwriter, home taper and comic zine maker. Starting in the late 90’s he has released over 60+ DIY issue records both as a solo recording artist as well as recordings with bands and collaborators such as Miracles Of God, Jad Fair and Samuel Locke Ward, BBJR + SLW, […]
Torrey Peters is the bestselling author of the novel Detransition, Baby, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and was named one of the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times. It was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize, a finalist for the Brooklyn Public Library Book […]
Ryan Joseph Anderson’s solo career began in April 2014 with the release of his debut album, The Weaver’s Broom. The album, engineered and co-produced by Andrija Tokic (Alabama Shakes, Hooray for the Riff Raff), was hailed as one of the best Americana records of the year. Songs from The Weaver’s Broom made “best of” lists for […]