IWP Alum Maxine Case Live Discussion, Feb. 11

February 08, 2010

The Writing University website will host an online chat with South African writer and International Writing Program alum Maxine Case at 3:00 p.m. (CST) Thursday, Feb. 11th. Maxine will discuss her experience as a resident at the IWP, her place in the international writing community, as well as other literary topics. To read Maxine's work visit the IWP website.

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Then visit the Writing University website at 3:00 p.m. (CST) Thursday, Feb. 11th to view the live discussion!

Maxine Case (fiction writer, novelist; South Africa) is a senior writer for the non-profit Cape Town Partnership. She contributes to a number newspapers and magazines, including Real Simple, Reader’s Digest and O Magazine. Her short story “Homing Pigeons” was included in African Compass: New Writing from Southern Africa 2005. In 2007, her debut novel All We Have Left Unsaid won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book in Africa, and, jointly, the Herman Charles Bosman Award. She participates courtesy of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the US Department of State.

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Live Discussion with Alice Pung

February 05, 2010

The Writing University website hosted an online chat with Australian writer and International Writing Program alum Alice Pung at 2:00 p.m. (CST) Friday, Feb. 5th. Alice discussed her experience as a resident at the IWP, her place in the international writing community, as well as other literary topics. To peruse Alice's work and read more about her literary career, visit her website: http://www.alicepung.com/

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Alice Pung (fiction writer, playwright, nonfiction writer; Australia) was born in Melbourne to Cambodian parents. She has published the memoir Unpolished Gem (2006), which won the Australian Book Industry Association award for Newcomer of the Year and was short-listed for numerous other awards, ;and the short story collection Growing Up Asian in Australia (2008). Her work was also included in Best Australian Short Stories 2007. A lawyer by trade, she contributes regularly to The Age. She participated in the International Writing Program courtesy of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the US Department of State.

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UI Patient Voice Project Helps Tap into Creative Strength

January 27, 2010

This Cedar Rapids Gazette article highlights The Patient Voice Project, a University of Iowa Arts Share program that pairs people who have chronic or mental illness with Iowa Writers' Workshop graduate students for at least six weeks of free writing classes. Launched in 2004 by a workshop student, the program has helped more than 100 people.

"This writing class helped me come to terms with the fact that my disease is progressing. I don't know that I would have just admitted that otherwise," said Molly Baker, who has cystic fibrosis. "It helped me get that out, and that was important."

Read the entire article here: Patient Voice Project

Iowa Writers' Workshop | Fiction | Poetry | Nonfiction | Science/Medical Writing
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Veterans invited to free UI Midwest Writers Workshop

January 19, 2010

To help veterans give voice to their experiences, the University of Iowa Veterans Center and the UI Division of Continuing Education co-sponsored a free UI Vets Midwestern Writing Workshop Jan. 15-17 in the UI Distance Learning Site on the second floor of the U.S. Bank building at 30 S. Dubuque St. in downtown Iowa City.

The workshop was open to all current and former military personnel, regardless whether they're connected to the university. No previous writing experience was required.

"My goal is to offer vets a venue to begin exploring their war experiences and find their voices in the process," said Emma Rainey, a May 2009 graduate of the UI Nonfiction Writing Program who co-facilitated the workshop with John Mikelson, veteran's advisor with the UI Veterans Center.

Given the international literary reputation of the UI, Rainey said the workshop was an excellent opportunity for veterans to learn from UI faculty, poets and nonfiction writers. Read more...

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Launch of eXchanges Winter Issue

January 11, 2010

eXchanges, the University of Iowa's online journal of literary translation, announces the launch of its Winter 2009 issue, EXOCITY. Visit http://exchanges.uiowa.edu/ to read this new issue, which contains poetry, fiction, and critical nonfiction translated from the Sanskrit, Polish, German, Latin and Spanish.

The issue also features an interview with the always thought-provoking Johannes Goransson (co-editor of Action Books and Action Yes). In the interview he discusses his translations of Swedish poetry, foreignization as a kind of domestication, how translations get packaged as the foreign, closeness and distance of translators to/from their originals and more.

Fiction | Poetry | Nonfiction | Translation MFA
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