Name: IWP Sunday Afternoon Reading Series
Start: 2025-09-07T16:00:00-05:00
Location: 15 S Dubuque St, Iowa City, IA, United States, Iowa 52240

Please join us for our annual IWP Sunday Afternoon Reading Series! This week’s event features IWP Residents Roy Horovitz (Israel), Andra Schwarz (Germany), and Wong Ching Hang (Hong Kong/Scotland). An accompanying student from either the Writers' Workshop or the Iowa NWP will be announced soon.
Roy Horovitz (theatre director, translator, dramaturge; Israel) is the author of A World of Innocents: The Afterlife of the Bible in Yaakov Shabtai's Plays. He is the winner of the "Scientific Excellence Award" (2022), Best Actor Award (Haifa Festival, 1997) and Best Director Award (Tel Aviv, 2011). He is the chair of the drama & theatre program at Bar-Ilan University and is currently translating two plays (one American, one Russian) to Hebrew. His participation is courtesy of Fulbright Israel (USIEF).
Andra Schwarz (poet; Germany) is the author of Tulpa (2023) and Meteor (2023). Her first poetry collection, In the morning we are glass, was translated from the German by Caroline Wilcox Reul and published by Zephyr Press in 2021 (US). She has been awarded residencies for her work in various European countries such as Austria, Latvia, Czech Republic and Poland, and won the Leonce and Lena Prize in 2017. She is currently working on her next poetry collection. Her participation is made possible by the Max Kade Foundation.
WONG Ching-hang 王証恒 (fiction writer, journalist; Hong Kong/Scotland) was born in Hong Kong. In 2021, the Hong Kong Arts Development Council funded the publication of his debut short story collection, Southbound Truck 南歸貨車. Writing in a realistic style, he focuses mainly on Hong Kong’s New Territories West in his work with the aim of bringing to light how the lower-class lives and the roots of their difficulties. His first collection features a teacher, truck driver, detective, masseuse, welder, construction worker, and dock worker; his stories are set in the New Territories and beyond, which enable him to examine the complexity of cross-border population movement and the rapid changes the city has seen in recent years. His participation is made possible by the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Global.