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Recent News
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The American Academy of Arts and Letters has honored five University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduates and a former visiting faculty member with its 2021 awards!
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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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The Program Era Project from UI English is the first computational investigation of the Iowa Writers' Workshop next door.
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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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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 York Times Review of NWP professor Melissa Febos' GIRLHOOD calls it "smart, radical company, and not ordinary at all.”
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Oprah Announces New Book Club Picks: The Gilead Novels by Marilynne Robinson
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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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Literary Translation MFA
The Literary Translation MFA has long been an integral part of the conversation about writing at Iowa.
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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