Fostering community through the literary arts
August's Free Gen with Camilia Urioste
Sun, Aug 17
|Iowa City
Refocus your Poetry or Prose for the Screen. Camila Urioste leads this month's Free Gen in collaboration with the Refocus Film Festival and FilmScene
Time & Location
Aug 17, 2025, 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM
Iowa City, 1019 E Washington St, Iowa City, IA 52240, USA
Guests
About the event
Co-sponsored by PorchLight and Iowa City Poetry, the Free Generative Writing Workshops provide a space for career writers, curious beginners, writers of all income levels and stages of life. Our goal is to make it easy to meet and learn from some of the most talented writer/teachers living in or passing through Iowa City. Every month a new writer leads a generative workshop, presenting a prompt inspired by their own preoccupations, passions, or interests. It has been an adventure, and we are continually inspired by the creative concentration of participants, and the powerful beginnings the workshop generates.
This special edition of the Free Gen is co-sponsored by Filmscene and the Refocus Film Festival.
Camila Urioste graduated from the Iowa Writer’s Workshop in 2025 and is a Bolivian-Uruguayan writer of novels and screenplays. In Bolivia she published poetry and fiction, winning a national award for her first novel, Soundtrack, in 2017.…