IWP Sunday Afternoon Reading Series

Name: IWP Sunday Afternoon Reading Series
Start: 2025-09-28T16:00:00-05:00
Location: 15 S Dubuque St, Iowa City, IA, United States, Iowa 52240

Schedule

Sun, 28 Sep, 2025 at 04:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

15 S Dubuque St, Iowa City, IA, United States, Iowa 52240 | Iowa City, IA

Please join us for our annual IWP Sunday Afternoon Reading Series! This week’s event features IWP Residents Vlora Konushevci (Kosovo) and Ndongolera C. Mwangupili (Malawi). An accompanying grad student from either the Writers' Workshop or the Iowa NWP will be announced soon.
Vlora Konushevci (poet, translator, and essayist; Kosovo) is the author of the poetry collection Lavdi Vetes and the editor-translator of the bilingual anthologies Poetry Without Borders (Albanian–Serbian) and Magma (Albanian–English). Her poetry and translations appear in The Common, Songs of Eretz, and European Literature Network. A winner of multiple literary awards and a contributor to Kosovo’s cultural press, she also works as a certified translator for national and international institutions. Her participation is made possible thanks to the University of Iowa’s Office of the Vice President for Research and Graduate College.
Ndongolera C. Mwangupili (poet, fiction writer, scholar, culturalist; Malawi) is the author of Fragments of my Broken Voice a poetry book; Sons of the Hills, a novel that is in the secondary school curriculum in Malawi, and A Gift to the People: Sr. Beatrice Chipeta’s Legacy, a biography. His works also appear in Southern Humanities Review and Florilege. Others have been widely anthologized including in The Caine Prize for African Writing 2024: Midnight in the Morgue and Other Stories. Mwangupili is currently working on a novel, set to reflect on the social reality in his country. His participation is made possible thanks to the generous support of Hugh F. Culverhouse, Jr. and other donations made to the International Writing Program.