The Eleventh Hour Lecture Series

The Eleventh Hour Series is comprised of hour-long presentations at 11:00 am each weekday of the Festival. The series features issues of special interest to writers, including aspects of craft, process, the writing life, and publishing. Recent talks have included:

• “The Writer as Witness”
• “Transforming Life into Writing”
• “Edit Like a Zen Master”
• “Sending Work to Literary Magazines”
• “The Video Essay” and
• “How Poets See the World: The Art of Description”

To listen to podcasts of past lectures, visit The Writing University at https://www.writinguniversity.org/.

The Eleventh Hour podcast features recordings of illuminating craft talks from the renown writers, novelists, poets, and essayists who present in the Iowa Summer Writing Festival's Eleventh Hour Lecture Series.