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5Q Interview: UI Press Author Peter Mishler
Wednesday, July 24, 2024
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Sad Me of the Past // Episode 5: Nam Le
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
5Q Interview: UI Press Author Lucas Mann
Wednesday, July 3, 2024
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Writing Matters // Episode 5: Interview with Bennett Sims
Wednesday, June 12, 2024
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5Q Interview: UI Press Author Nina Lohman
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
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Sad Me of the Past // Episode 4: Dan Beachy-Quick
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
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5Q Interview: Will Schwarz, UI Screenwriting Student
Monday, April 15, 2024
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Sad Me of the Past // Episode 3: Carmen Maria Machado
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
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5Q Interview: Blake Kellinger, UI Screenwriting student
Friday, March 29, 2024
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5Q Interview: UI Press Author Amy Lee Lillard
Tuesday, December 5, 2023
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Featured Archive: 'Time and Distance Overcome' by Eula Biss, from The Iowa Review, 2008
"Of what use is such an invention?" The New York World asked shortly after Alexander Graham Bell first demonstrated his telephone in 1876. The world was not waiting for the telephone."
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Rita Dove
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Rita Dove received her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1977.
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BA in Screenwriting
Students are instructed on practical skills and knowledge needed to become successful members of the screenwriting industry!
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