IWP Sunday Afternoon Reading Series

Please join us for our annual IWP Sunday Afternoon Reading Series! This week’s event features IWP Residents Florencia del Campo (Spain) and Agnes Chew (Singapore). They will be accompanied by current Iowa Writers' Workshop poetry student, Audrey Cherchiara.

Florencia del Campo (fiction writer; Argentina/Spain) is the author of four novels: the first one is La huésped (2016), for which del Campo was a finalist for the 2014 Premio Equis de Novela. In 2017, she published Madre mía. Her third novel, La versión extranjera (2019), won the El Premio Internacional de Novela Ciudad de Barbastro. Her most recent novel is Que tenga una casa (2024). She has also published several poetry books and children’s titles in Spain. Her participation is courtesy of the Paul and Hualing Nieh Engle Fund.

Agnes Chew 周昀蒨 (fiction and nonfiction writer; Singapore) is the author of the fiction collection, Eternal Summer of My Homeland (2023), which was longlisted for The Asian Prize for Fiction, shortlisted for the POPULAR Readers’ Choice Award, and a national bestseller in Singapore; and the essay collection, The Desire for Elsewhere (2016). Her fiction has won the 2023 Commonwealth Short Story Prize (Asia), and has been published or is forthcoming in Granta, Necessary Fiction, and Best New Singaporean Short Stories, among others. She has received scholarships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Tin House, Granta Writers’ Workshop, and more. She is currently working on her first novel, which has been longlisted for the 2025 Goldfinch Novel Award. Her participation is funded by the National Arts Council Singapore.

Audrey Cherchiara is a bird watcher and poet from the Hudson Valley.

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