Join us for the 7th annual Iowa City Expo for Comics and Real Eclectic Media (I.C.E. C.R.E.A.M.) Zine Fair, presenting the work of local cartoonists, zinesters, and art books/handmade book artists. ICE CREAM is collaboratively presented by Public Space One and the Mission Creek Festival, with support from Think Iowa City. Find vendors HERE
Not to be missed this year is the Small Press and Literary Magazine Book Fair, being hosted inside 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 such as Sarabande Books, Dorothy, a publishing project, Two Dollar Radio, Container, […]
Nabila Lovelace is a born and raised Queens native, as well as a first generation American. Her parents hail from Trinidad and Tobago and Nigeria. She currently resides in Tuscaloosa, AL. Her first collection, Sons of Achilles, is forthcoming from YesYes Books in 2018. Nabila is a 2016 Poetry Witch Magazine…
Sandra Allen is the author of A Kind of Mirraculas Paradise: A True Story About Schizophrenia. A graduate of the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program (’12), she was formerly a features editor for BuzzFeed, and ran the online literary quarterly Wag’s Revue.
Tickling Giants tells the story of Dr. Bassem Youssef, the “Egyptian Jon Stewart”, who decides to leave his job as a heart surgeon and become a late-night comedian. The movie is about how he finds creative, non-violent ways to protect free speech…
What makes a poem in translation? Are human translators still needed in the age of auto-translate technology? Experiment with sound and translation—and craft a sonic poem of your own—in this nontraditional workshop for non-translators and monolinguists.
Join assistant editor Derek Askey in an interactive round table inspired by the Readers Write feature of The Sun.
Click to Register » In each monthly issue of The Sun, Readers Write asks readers to address subjects on which they’re the only authorities: “Drug Experiences,” “Tools,” “Learning the Hard Way,” “Cooking,” “Being Stubborn,” to name just a few. Topics are intentionally broad in order to give room for expression. In this hour-long workshop, participants […]
SARAH GERARD Sarah Gerard’s essay collection Sunshine State (Harper Perennial, 2017) was a New York Times Editors’ Choice, a finalist for the Southern Book Prize, and was longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. Her novel Binary Star (Two Dollar Radio, 2015) was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art […]
Zachary Pace is a writer and editor who lives in New York City, whose writing has been published in the Baffler, BOMB, Bookforum, Boston Review, Frieze magazine, Interview magazine, Literary Hub, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the PEN Poetry Series, the Yale Review, and elsewhere. I Sing to Use the Waiting is their first […]