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Nicholas Boggs receives 2026 Truman Capote Award from UI

Wednesday, October 7, 2026
Nicholas Boggs, a writer and assistant professor of English and creative writing at Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, New York, has been selected as the 2026 recipient of the Truman Capote Literary Trust Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin.

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Brentano String Quartet

Wednesday, October 7, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building
Longtime friends of the School of Music and Hancher bring an all-Beethoven program.
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Brentano String Quartet at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop

Thursday, October 8, 2026 1:00pm
Dey House
The Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Hancher Auditorium, and the Iowa String Quartet Residency Program present the Brentano String Quartet for an intimate hour-long afternoon concert at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop Frank Conroy Reading Room.
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Global Express

Thursday, October 8, 2026 7:30pm
Theatre Building

Students from the UI Department of Theatre Arts bring the page to life in an evening of staged readings of work by the International Writing Program Fall Residents.

Global Express is a unique opportunity for writers from around the world and performers at Iowa to meet, work together, and present their work live on stage. Global Express, now, in its 25th year, help us to recognize our common humanity while celebrating our differences. The Express, part dramatic reading, part solo-turn, part poetry...

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