Featuring Walid Rachedi, writer and Managing Editor of Paris-based Frictions Media, Lionel Ruffel, Professor of Comparative Literature at Université Paris 8, Lynne Nugent, writer and editor-in-chief of the Iowa Review, as well as students from Frictions + UI. The panel moderator will be Sarah Minor. A showcase of transnational nonfiction podcasts and audio literature. This […]
Mission Creek’s FREE all-ages, rip-your-face-off showcase of underground acts from across the Midwest and beyond!
Editors from small publishing houses including Sarabande Books, YesYes Books, Canarium Books, Nomadic Press, and the University of Iowa Press discuss the ins and outs of indie publishing. Q&A to follow.
Mission Creek’s FREE all-ages, rip-your-face-off showcase of underground acts from across the Midwest and beyond! Lineup TBA…
Michael Martone’s recent books are The Moon Over Wapakoneta, Brooding, Winesburg, Indiana, Four for a Quarter, Not Normal, Illinois: Peculiar Fiction from the Flyover, Racing in Place: Collages, Fragments, Postcards, Ruins, a collection of essays…
Established to create books which aren’t, in the quotidian sense, books at all, Container is a Baltimore-based press that creates objects which might masquerade as parking meters, wallpaper or crop seed sleeves. Working with text to determine alternate approaches to the traditional book form, they aim to free artists from being “boxed in” by forms, […]
Established in 2016, Fonograf Editions is a 501(c)(3) non-profit vinyl record-only literary press. It is based out of Portland, Oregon and is an arm of Octopus Books. Recent albums have been released by Alice Notley, Harmony Holiday, and Susan Howe/Nathaniel Mackey.
PromptPress is an online and book arts journal that provides inspiration for and invites collaboration between writers and visual artists. We believe cross-media collaboration is vital to the creation of boundary-pushing work. PromptPress provides a space for artists to connect, study each other’s work, and publish within the national scene. In our exploration of how […]
Ari Braverman is a fiction writer from Iowa City by way of New Orleans and New York. Her work has appeared in BOMB, Guernica, Smokelong Quarterly, and at Tammy Journal. She was shortlisted for the 2017 White Review Short Story Prize. Her debut novel, The Ballad of Big Feeling, will be out later this year from Melville House…
Debut Two Dollar Radio author Sarah Rose Etter (The Book of X) and established author Matt Bell (Appleseed, Scrapper)—who first published work with small presses such as Willows Wept, Keyhole, and Mudluscious—will read together in the Indie Showcase at Prairie Lights Bookstore.