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TO BE RESCHEDULED: Live from Prairie Lights | Caitlin Roach in conversation with Rachel Yoder

Thursday, February 6, 2025 7:00pm
Prairie Lights Books
[Please note that this event has been postponed due to weather and will be rescheduled] Iowa Writers' Workshop alum, Caitlin Roach will read from her new book of poetry, Surveille, in conversation with Rachel Yoder. Writers' Workshop graduate Caitlin Roach will read from her debut book of poems, Surveille, winner of the 2024 Brittingham Poetry Prize. “In Surveille, Caitlin Roach is a reader of omens, of the shapes hidden in shadows, recasting the hard lessons of the natural world. Born between...
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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...
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Washington Writers Workshop: Amiya Moretta at the Washington, IA Public Library

Saturday, February 8, 2025 10:00am
Washington Public Library
The Washington Public Library will be holding its next Washington Writers Workshop on Saturday, Feb. 8, beginning at 10 a.m. Join us for a presentation by poet Amiya Moretta from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. The first hour is devoted to the author presentation and the second hour to writer submissions. If you would like to be on the submission and reminder list, please email leann.kunz@washington.lib.ia.us Amiya is a poet and multimedia artist. She is a Fulbright scholar and an MFA candidate at...
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UI Professor Travis Vogan's stunning book on the artist LeRoy Neiman reviewed in The Wall Street Journal

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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

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

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

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UI Translation Program Alum in the New York Times

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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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Rita Dove

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Rita Dove received her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1977.

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Students are instructed on practical skills and knowledge needed to become successful members of the screenwriting industry!

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