Friday,
April 3
5:00 pm
Venue:
Multiple Locations

Writers and publishers from across the country again invade downtown Iowa City businesses for three hours of literary mayhem. In all, more than 60 authors from across the country will represent 18 presses, magazines, and journals, including Rescue Press, MAKE Magazine, Hobart, [PANK] Magazine, Rookie Magazine, One Teen Story, POETRY Magazine, Brooklyn Arts Press, Curbside Splendor, Artifice Books, Forklift Ohio, H_NGM_N, Black Ocean, Third Man Books, Spork Press, Two Dollar Radio, Birds LLC, and Ugly Duckling Presse, as well as MFA candidates from the University of Iowa’s own Anthology Reading Series, and more:

 

5:00pm-5:45pm

 

@ Beadology (220 E. Washington St.): Rookie Magazine & One Teen Story
Featuring writers involved in the Iowa Youth Writing Program from across the Iowa City School District, and Weston Clark, a National Student Poets Program winner from Indiana.

 

@ Forbidden Planet (111 S. Dubuque St.): Hobart & [PANK] Magazine
Chloe Caldwell, Jac Jemc, Christopher Beha, Delaney Nolan, Gemma de Choisy, & Dylan Nice


@ NoDo
(5 S. Dubuque St.): POETRY Magazine & Brooklyn Arts Press
Robyn Schiff, Robert Fernandez, Erika Jo Brown, Matt Runkle, BJ Love, Mary Hickman, & Emily Brown


@ RSVP
(140 N. Linn St.): Rescue Press & MAKE Magazine
Anthony Madrid, Marc Rahe, Nick Twemlow, Lisa Wells, Lakiesha Carr & Anca Roncea

 

6:00pm-6:45pm

 

@ Haba Salon (212 E. Market St.): Forklift, Ohio & H_NGM_N
Jenny Zhang, Ryan Collins, Russell Dillon, Davy Knittle, Rachel Yoder, & Rachel Arndt

 

@ White Rabbit (112 S. Linn St.): Curbside Splendor & Artifice Books
Dasha Kelly, Porochista Khakpour, Halle Butler, Michael Czyzniejewski, Susan Hope Lanier, & Tim Taranto


@ Dublin Underground
(5 S. Dubuque St.): Black Ocean, Spork Press, Third Man Books
Amelia Gray, Janaka Stucky, DJ Dolack, S. Whitney Holmes, Simon Jacobs, Caleb Curtiss, & Jonathan Stout

 

7:00pm-7:45pm


@ Studio 13
(13 S. Linn St.): Birds LLC & Ugly Duckling Presse
Matt Rasmussen, Monica McClure, Ben Fama, Chris Tonelli, Niina Pollari, & Bryce Thornburg


@ Clinton Street Social Club
(18 ½ S. Clinton St.): Two Dollar Radio
Bennett Sims, Sarah Gerard, Nick Rombes, Colin Winnette, Keanan Faruq, & Scott McClanahan