Join us for a conversation with Susan Hill Newton, Alisha Jeddeloh and Chuy Renteria about publishing with a University Press About the event Enjoy conversation, connection, and community over light snacks and wine. Porchlight’s weeknight salon series provides a space for visiting writers, local artists, university students, and community members to engage in dialogue. Susan Hill Newton has worked in all realms of book editing, serving both trade and academic publishers and nonprofits...

Margaret Ross is the author of Saturday and A Timeshare. Her poems and translations have appeared in The New Republic, The Paris Review, and POETRY, and have been recognized by a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, a Fulbright arts grant, and residencies from Yaddo. To subscribe to a weekly emailing list of Writers' Workshop events, please fill in the linked form or email iww@uiowa.edu with “Events Mailing List Subscribe” in the subject line.

A workshop for memoirists, essayists, or art lovers. Any level of experience is welcome! Tickets start at $255. Feb. 5–26, (4 sessions) 7–9 p.m. Tickets: https://www.porchlightliterary.org/service-page/perusing-the-personal-through-art-1 Description: In this four-session course, participants will craft creative nonfiction narratives that respond to various forms of art (music, movies, paintings, etc.) they have a connection with. By using writing techniques to capture our various...