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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!

Upcoming Events

Application Deadline: Spring 2025 Obermann Writing Collective

Friday, January 24, 2025 5:00pm

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, book projects, edited volumes, or nonfiction) who want dedicated time, a cozy space, and a community for the practice of writing. In Spring 2025, three write-on-site groups will meet in our Writers' Attic at the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies at 111 Church St. Each...

Art & Write Night

Friday, February 7, 2025 6:00pm to 8:00pm

University of Iowa Museum of Natural History

Join the long, rich, historical tradition of artists creating in our spaces. Professional, aspiring, and amateur artists alike, make our museum your muse. The return of this popular program series welcomes guests into the Museum of Natural History's magical gallery spaces after-hours to work on sketching or writing projects with other campus and community artists. Tell a friend, grab a notebook, and join us on the first Friday of each month. We'll provide a new inspo prompt for each session...

Book Matters: Brady G’Sell and Meena Khandelwal in conversation with Elana Buch

Tuesday, February 25, 2025 7:00pm to 8:30pm

Prairie Lights Books

Join us for a reading and discussion, co-sponsored by Prairie Lights, to celebrate recent works from Brady G’Sell and Meena Khandelwal, faculty in the University of Iowa Department of Anthropology and the Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies Program. After the reading, Elana Buch, associate professor of anthropology, will join G’Sell and Khandelwal for a conversation and Q&A with the audience. Light refreshments will follow.

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Latest Articles

5Q Interview: UI Press Author Erika Morillo

Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Sad Me of the Past // Episode 10: Ada Zhang

Wednesday, December 4, 2024

5Q Interview: Grace Westergaard, editor of Venus Magazine

Friday, November 22, 2024

5Q Interview: Solenn Vincent, editor of The Broken Clock Magazine

Friday, November 22, 2024

5Q Interview: Margo Keller, editor of Cave Writing Magazine

Monday, November 18, 2024

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5Q Interview: UI Press Author Sharon Wahl

Wednesday, November 13, 2024

5Q Interview: UI Press Author Shelly Mazzanoble

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

5Q Interview: UI Press Author Marguerite Sheffer

Monday, November 11, 2024

Sad Me of the Past // Episode 9: Lila Byock

Friday, November 8, 2024

5Q Interview: IWP resident Han Junghyun

Wednesday, November 6, 2024

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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

Ethan Hawke joined Stephen Colbert on The Late Show & took a moment to celebrate the excellence of The Iowa Writers' Workshop, where Flannery O'Connor studied in the 1940s.

Two UI faculty members, Kaveh Akbar (English) and Jamel Brinkley (Iowa Writers' Workshop) received the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship

Congratulations to Workshop director Lan Samantha Chang & alumni, Michelle Huneven and Elizabeth McCracken, 2024 Literature Award winners!

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