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International Writing Program 2022 Spring Residency alum Shehan Karunatilaka longlisted for the Booker Prize!
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Congratulations to University of Iowa professors Melissa Febos and Donika Kelly, both finalists for National Book Critics Circle Awards
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Lan Samantha Chang, director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, is on Obama's summer reading list!
Sallie Fullerton, an Iowa Workshop alum, won a 2022-23 Fulbright Study/Research grant in Creative Writing to Canada!
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Congratulations to former visiting faculty member Joy Williams! Winner of the 2021 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction
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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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Director of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop Lan Samantha Chang has been named a 2021-22 Berlin Prize Fellow, awarded to scholars, writers, and artists who represent the highest standards of excellence in their field!
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Congratulations to Jane Wong, Ann Patchett, Joy Williams, Michelle Gil-Montero, Kelsi Vanada, and Lisa Wells, on the longlists for PEN America's 2022 Literary Awards
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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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Carl Phillips in conversation with Kaveh Akbar
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