The Writing University

Working on a book proposal? Starting to turn your dissertation into a book? Have questions about the academic publishing industry? Join us for one of two “ask-an-editor-anything” sessions with former Obermann Editor-in-Residence Mark Simpson-Vos.

Wednesday, December 3 from 12-1pm and 4-5pm (on Zoom).

Space is limited, RSVP required. RSVP here: https://obermann.uiowa.edu/MSV-virtual

Working on a book proposal? Starting to turn your dissertation into a book? Have questions about the academic publishing industry? Join us for one of two “ask-an-editor-anything” sessions with former Obermann Editor-in-Residence Mark Simpson-Vos.

Wednesday, December 3 from 12-1pm and 4-5pm (on Zoom).

Space is limited, RSVP required. RSVP here: https://obermann.uiowa.edu/MSV-virtual

Kevin Moffett will read from his longlisted National Book Award debut novel, Only Son, and will be joined in conversation with Matthew Vollmer. Starting in early 1980s Florida with a nine-year-old boy who loses his father and traveling through time twenty-five years later to witness the boy as a man with a son of his own (and lingering questions about the father he barely knew), Only Son is, according to NPR, "[A] suburban Buddha of a book, […] composed of a series of short vignettes that are so...