BOONE, Iowa—Des Moines Area Community College’s (DMACC’s) 17th annual Celebration of the Literary Arts will be held April 8-10 with classroom visits to all six DMACC campuses by area writers and literary instructors.

Novelist John Domini and Science Fiction Writer Lettie Prell will read from their works in the DMACC Boone Campus Auditorium from 9:40 to 11:05 a.m., Tuesday, April 9.

Domini has written three books of stories, the latest, MOVIEOLA!, which won praise in Vanity Fair and elsewhere.  Three novels have also appeared, two set in Naples, Italy, part of a loose trilogy; he final will appear in June 2019.  He has won awards in fiction with Paris Review and non-fiction in The New York Times. He has received grants including an NEA Fellowship and an Iowa Major Artist Award.  Domini has taught at Harvard, Northwestern and elsewhere.  He now lives in Des Moines.

Prell is a science fiction writer, who lives in Des Moines.   Her stories have appeared in Clarkesworld, Tor.com, Apex Magazine, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, and Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine. Her work has been reprinted in anthologies, including The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018, Rich Horton’s The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2018 Edition, and Neil Clarke’s The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Two.   

All Celebration of Literary Arts events are free and open to the public.

(contributed article, DMACC)