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Recent News
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Congratulations to the 2021 Guggenheim Fellows, including those with Iowa connections: Sandra Lim, Stephen Kuusisto, Tracie Morris, Alexander Chee, and Tayari Jones!
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Iowa Writers' Workshop alum Brandon Taylor in Publisher's Weekly: "Brandon Taylor Is Ready to Show You His Stories"
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Oprah Announces New Book Club Picks: The Gilead Novels by Marilynne Robinson
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An article about translating Amanda Gorman’s work in the Washington Post with University of Iowa Translation MFA Director Aron Aji
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A new PBS documentary on Flannery O'Connor, an alum of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, has been released!
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A New York Times Review of NWP professor Melissa Febos' GIRLHOOD calls it "smart, radical company, and not ordinary at all.”
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The City Council of Iowa City voted in March to rename Creekside Park as James Alan McPherson Park
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Nonfiction Writing Program alum Rachel Yoder's first book hasn't even released yet, but she's already finished the screenplay for a film adaptation slated to star Oscar-nominated actress Amy Adams
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Yaa Gyasi
Award-winning author Yaa Gyasi received her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 2014.
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Spanish Creative Writing MFA
The Spanish Creative Writing MFA supports students while they create poetry & fiction in Spanish.
Featured Archive
Carmen Maria Machado in conversation with Garth Greenwell
Listen to this archive of a 2019 conversation between authors Carmen Maria Machado and Garth Greenwell.
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