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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...
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Write at the Stanley

Sunday, January 26, 2025 2:00pm 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...

Live from Prairie Lights | Caitlin Roach in conversation with Rachel Yoder

Thursday, February 6, 2025 7:00pm
Prairie Lights Books
Iowa Writers' Workshop alum, Caitlin Roach will read from her new book of poetry, Surveille, in conversation with Rachel Yoder. Caitlin Roach is a queer poet from Southern California. Her poems have appeared in Narrative, jubilat, Colorado Review, Best New Poets, Poetry Northwest, Poetry DailyTin House, and The Iowa Review, among other journals. Her work has received prizes and recognition from the Granum Foundation, the W.B. Yeats Society of New York for the Yeats Poetry Prize, Narrative...
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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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