Photo Credit: Bill Adams
The Scene
There's nothing quite like the Mission Creek Festival which combines literature and music with community events in a number of unique venues across downtown Iowa City. The nearly week long event has a focus on quality, independent-minded sounds, words, and events and strongly believes that intimacy is key to the experience.
2016 Artist Lineup
San Fermin
The Joy Formidable
Yacht
- Kurt Vile & The Violators
- Alison Bechdel
- Kevin Smith
- Marc Maron
- Deer Tick
- Faust
- Saul Williams
- The Joy Formidable
- Bizarre Ride Live featuring Fatlip and Slimkid3
- Son Lux
- YACHT
- PHOX
- Terry Zwigoff
- Waxahatchee (solo)
- Slum Village
- Flatbush Zombies
- Black Milk
- San Fermin
- Dawn of Midi
- Tyondai Braxton
- Glenn Jones
- Caroline Smith
- Gary Wilson
- Paul Metzger
- Gary Groth
- Richard Siken
- John D’Agata
- Garth Greenwell
- Richard Preston
- Paul Lisicky
- Peter Aguero
- Black Ocean 10th Anniversary Party
- Mark Levine
- Robyn Schiff
- Zachary Schomburg
- Johannes Göransson
- Matt Hart
- Jenny Zhang
- Janaka Stucky
- Michael Seidlinger
- Nate Pritts
- Alexandra Kleeman
- Mark de Silva
- Erika Sanchez
- Carola Dibbell
- Abraham Smith
- Hai-Dang Phan
- Monica Martin
- Zoe Zolbrod
- Toni Nealie
- Akwi Nji
- Lovar Davis Kidd
- Sean Lewis
- Ben Mackey
- Everything Everything
- Pure Bathing Culture
- Yonatan Gat
- Psalm One
- Mamiffer
- Esme Patterson
- Quilt
- Noveller
- Adia Victoria
- Pillar Point
- Guilty Simpson
- Phat Kat
- Ryley Walker
- A$AP Twelvyy
- Remy Banks
- Bob Bucko, Jr.
- Karen Meat
- Field Division
- Nadalands
- Crystal City
- AWTHNTKTS
- The Wandering Bears
- Subatlantic
- Extravision
- MAIDS
- Miracles of God
- American Cream
- ConeTrauma
- Brooks Strause & The Gory Details |GOSH!
- Trouble Lights
- Plus Presses: McSweeney’s
- The Believer
- POETRY Magazine
- Black Ocean| Sarabande Books
- The Iowa Review
- Civil Coping Mechanisms
- Spork Press
- Two Dollar Radio
- Canarium Books
- Forklift, Ohio
- Ugly Duckling Presse
- American Short Fiction
- Curbside Splendor
- Action Books
- Tyrant Books
- Gulf Coast
- featherproof books
- Rescue Press
- draft: The Journal of Process
- Entropy Magazine
- H_NGM_N Prompt Press
- Digraph Press