FTRS is back for a new season of regional authors & a creative writing open mic on the final Thursday of each month at the Hearst Center for the Arts. Click here to find out more and read interviews with featured readers. Open mic at 7:00 p.m. Featured reading at 7:30 p.m. Can't attend in person? Featured readers can be live streamed on Zoom. Click to register. 

Vince Gotera, Iowa’s Poet Laureate, will return to FTRS to launch his new collection of speculative poetry, Dragons & Rayguns (Final Thursday Press). Gotera’s other poetry collections include The Coolest Month and Fighting Kite.

The Final Thursday Reading Series is a collaboration of Final Thursday Press; the Hearst Center for the Arts; the UNI College of Humanities, Arts and Science; and the UNI Department of Languages & Literatures.