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The Writing University Podcast Network

At the Writing University, we're devoted to delivering the most enlightening, educational and entertaining podcasts from the University of Iowa's creative writing programs. We gather all our offerings together here for you to peruse and enjoy!

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5Q Interview: Bethany Kaylor, MFA candidate in the Nonfiction Writing Program

Wednesday, May 14, 2025

5Q Interview: Connor French, Undergrauate in Cinema and Screenwriting Arts

Monday, May 5, 2025

5Q Interview: Emma Athena Murray, MFA Candidate in Literary Translation

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

5Q Interview: Kendin Scheitlin, a UI Undergraduate Majoring in Cinema

Thursday, April 24, 2025

5Q Interview: Miharu Yano, MFA candidate in the Translation Workshop

Monday, April 21, 2025

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Sad Me of the Past // Episode 14: Madeline McDonnell

Monday, April 21, 2025

5Q Interview: Fion Tse, MFA candidate in the Literary Translation

Thursday, April 17, 2025

5Q Interview: Lydia Meth, Cinematic and Screenwriting Arts

Monday, April 14, 2025

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5Q Interview: Grace Morse, MFA candidate in the Nonfiction Writing Program

Monday, April 7, 2025

5Q Interview: Alan Valdez, MFA Candidate at the Spanish Creative Writing Program

Thursday, April 3, 2025

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Upcoming Events

Obermann End-of-Year Writing Retreat

Monday, May 12 to Friday, May 16, 2025 (all day)

Have you been waiting all school year to make serious progress on your book manuscript, article, or grant application? Jump-start your summer writing project at the Obermann End-of-Year Writing Retreat May 12–16, 2025! Fifteen participants will enjoy a week of quiet productivity apart from the distractions of campus at the beautiful North Ridge Pavilion in Coralville. Daily catered lunches will provide an opportunity for exchange and discussion with other writers across campus. Each day will...

Application Deadline: Obermann Writing Collective, Summer 2025

Friday, May 23, 2025 5:00pm

Virtual

This program offers companionship and accountability to University of Iowa artists, scholars, and researchers working on any kind of academic writing project (ex. academic articles/essays, fellowship or grant applications, dissertations, book projects, edited volumes, nonfiction) who want dedicated time, a cozy space, and a community for the practice of writing.In Summer 2025, two write-on-site groups will meet in our Writers' Attic at the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies at 111 Church St...

Write at the Stanley

Sunday, May 25, 2025 2:30pm to 4:15pm

Stanley Museum of Art

Write at the Stanley: A Generative Writing Workshop is back for the Spring Semester!Join us monthly to generate new creative writing inspired by works in the Stanley collection. Each session will be led by a different talented writer from our area, who will be offering a new prompt and a new approach to ekphrastic writing (writing inspired by visual art). Bring your own notebook and pencil or computer and leave with the beginning of a newly written piece.Co-sponsored by Iowa City Poetry. Teen...

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News Highlights

The ‘US News & World Report’ 2025 ranks UI graduate programs in top 25

⮑ Iowa Now

Garth Greenwell's novel Small Rain wins the PEN/Faulkner Award

⮑ PEN/Faulkner website

UI Playwright brings Iowa historical figure to life

⮑ https://stories.uiowa.edu

UI Professor Travis Vogan's stunning book on the artist LeRoy Neiman reviewed in The Wall Street Journal

⮑ The Wall Street Journal

CAMILLE DUNGY NAMED 2024 PAUL ENGLE PRIZE WINNER

⮑ UNESCO City of Literature

‘Sad Me of the Past’ podcast connects Iowa writers to their younger selves

⮑ The Daily Iowan

Two Workshop alumni awarded National Medals in the Humanities: Joy Harjo and Juan Filipe Herrera

⮑ The White House

5Q Interview: Anna Davtyan Աննա Դավթյան, IWP Resident

⮑ International Writing Program

UI Professor Kaveh Akbar's Novel "Martyr!" on Obama's Summer Reading List

⮑ X.com

UI Translation Program Alum in the New York Times

⮑ The New York Times

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Are you connected to the University of Iowa's writing programs and have news to share? We want to hear about it! If you have a book coming out, or are teaching a class, or doing a talk or lecture, or anything else -- we want to know and share in your success. Send us an update!