A conversation between four IWP 2024 Fall Residency writers on the theme of "Storytelling in the Digital Age," followed by Q&A. Free pizza will be provided to those who attend in person. This event is supported by University of Iowa International Programs and the Stanley-UI Foundation Support Organization.
Chris TSE (poet, editor, nonfiction writer; New Zealand) is the author of the poetry collections How to Be Dead in a Year of Snakes (2014), HE’S SO MASC (2018), and Super Model Minority (2022), the latter of which was a finalist for the 2023 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. He coedited Out Here: An Anthology of Takatāpui and LGBTQIA+ Writers from Aotearoa (2021). In 2016, he received the Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Tse is the current New Zealand Poet Laureate. His participation was made possible by a grant from Creative New Zealand.
Phodiso MODIRWA (poet, nonfiction writer; Botswana) is the author of Speaking in Code, a chapbook published by Akashic Books as part of the Tisa: New-Generation African Poets box set. She performed at the inauguration ceremony of the current president of Botswana, and her work has received the Botswana President’s Award in Contemporary Poetry. Modirwa’s writing has appeared or is forthcoming in adda, Guernica, Brittle Paper, Lolwe, Agbowó, 20.35 Africa, and other literary magazines. In 2022, she was a resident poet at the Gaborone Art Residency Centre. Her participation is made possible by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State.
Smith LIKONGWE (playwright, poet, fiction and nonfiction writer, academic; Malawi) is a lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies at the University of Malawi. He also serves as the president of the Association Internationale du Théâtre pour l'Enfance et la Jeunesse (ASSITEJ) Malawi. His publications include Kamuzu Banda and Other Pays (2019), Living Playscripts: A Trilogy (2018), and Prose, Poetry and Drama: A Malawian Anthology (2023). He is the editor and a contributor for the anthologies The Chief’s Blanket and Other Plays (2018), Southern African Plays Collection (2018), and Chamdothe ndi zisudzo zina [Chamdothe and Other Plays] (2018), among others. He has also written two children’s books in the Chichewa language and many plays that aired as part of the Malawi Broadcasting Corporation’s various radio drama programs. His participation was made possible by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State.
Karoline KAMEL (nonfiction and fiction writer, journalist, filmmaker; Egypt) is a Cairo-based journalist and the author of the novel Victoria (2022). She has published stories with a focus on the concerns of women and other social issues in several literary magazines, and is currently writing a second novel, Claiming Life, which tells the intersecting stories of three women born in different decades. Her first feature film, The Lottery, is presently in the editing process. Her participation was made possible by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State.
