University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduates Ossian Foley and Daniel Poppick will read from their work at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 25, in a free reading at Prairie Lights Books in downtown Iowa City. The reading also will be streamed live on the University of Iowa Writing University website.

University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate Nickolas Butler will read from his new novel, "Shotgun Lovesongs," at 7 p.m. Monday, March 24, in a free reading at Prairie Lights Books in downtown Iowa City. The reading also will be streamed live on the University of Iowa Writing University website.

Terry L. Wahls, clinical professor of medicine in the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, will talk about her new book, "The Wahls Protocol," at 2 p.m. Saturday, March 15, at the Iowa City Public Library.

"Family Feeling" by Jean Ross Justice is now available from the University of Iowa Press. This novella and collection of stories is a moving portrait of American domestic life of the last half-century. Often spanning generations, the stories are defined by subtle shifts in both family relationships and the ways in which we reconfigure them in memory and mind.

University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program and Writers’ Workshop graduate Julene Bair will read from her ecological memoir of the high plains, "The Ogallala Road," at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 13, in a free reading at Prairie Lights Books in downtown Iowa City. The reading also will be streamed live on the University of Iowa Writing University website.

"The Fan Fiction Studies Reader," edited by Karen Hellekson and Kristina Busse, is now available from the University of Iowa Press. An essential introduction to a rapidly growing field of study, "The Fan Fiction Studies Reader" gathers in one place the key foundational texts of the fan studies corpus, with a focus on fan fiction.

University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop alumnus Daniel Alarcón is one of five finalists for the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, America's largest peer-juried prize for fiction. Alarcón is nominated for "At Night We Walk in Circles," published by Riverhead Books.

Salt Lake City playwright David Kranes will participate in Book Wings, a collaborative theater project at the University of Iowa and the University of Baghdad, with participants in Baghdad and Iowa City collaborating via teleconference.

Randall Kenan, author of fiction and nonfiction, will present a free reading at 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 12, in the Frank Conroy Reading Room of the Glenn Schaeffer Library, adjacent to the Dey House.

Denis Johnson, alumnus and former faculty member of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, will hold several public literary events in Iowa City between March 5 and 7, capped with a reading of the play "Psychos Never Dream" at 7 p.m. Friday, March 7, in the Dey House on the UI campus.