Free Gen for August: Camila Urioste

The Free Generative Writing Workshops provide a space for career writers, curious beginners, writers of all 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.

August's Free Gen is offered as a special collaboration between Iowa City Poetry, PorchLight Literary Arts Center, and Film Scene, with a focus on adapting poetry and prose for the screen.

This month's leader: Camila Urioste

Date: Sunday, August 17, 5:30-7 pm Central (3:30 P, 4:30 M, 6:30 E)

Platforms: You're invited to attend online or in person

• To attend online, register HERE.  After registering, the Zoom link will be automatically emailed to you
• To attend in person, please join us at PorchLight Literary Arts Center, 1019 E. Washington, Iowa City. 

Camila Urioste (Iowa Writer’s Workshop ‘25) is a Bolivian-Uruguayan writer of novels and screenplays. In Bolivia she staged 10 plays between 2009 and 2021, and published fiction. In 2017 she won the National Novel Award for her first novel, Soundtrack. Her second novel, Manqapacha Delight, was published in Bolivia in 2024.

She is a co-writer of the film Muralla (Bolivia, Gory Patiño, 2018), the series La Entrega (Bolivia, Patiño, 2019) and the film  Influenced (Spain, Fernanda Rossi, 2024). Muralla was Bolivia’s Oscar submission in 2018. She also co-wrote the first season of the web series Decoded, produced in Spain, starring Amr Waked. She is the 2025-2026 Iowa Writer’s Room Screenwriting Fellow.