The specter of professionalization

Streaming video - 2022

Our first event in our Friday Iowa City Public Library series for Spring 2022! Join International Writing Program (IWP) writers-in-residence and members of the public in person (Iowa City Public Library, Meeting Room A) or online (livestreamed at https://bit.ly/springrespanel) for a panel discussion of "The Specter of Professionalization." In contrast to traditionally self-directed pathways into literary creativity— “the call of the Muse” -–today’s literary producers are ever more like athletes: trained, practicing, coached, competing, hoping to win… How have you approached the specter of professionalization in your own writing? Current IWP 2022 Spring Residents on the panel: Luíza FAZIO (screenwriting, fiction; Brazi...l) Yasser ABDELHAFEZ (novelist, journalist, editor; Egypt) Jidanun LEE (fiction writer; Thailand) More about them here: https://iwp.uiowa.edu/residency/participants more