Articles from April 2021

The Program Era Project from UI English is the first computational investigation of the Iowa Writers' Workshop next door

Friday, April 23, 2021
https://clas.uiowa.edu/news/program-era-project-limning-depths-iowa-writers-workshops-literary-influence
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Iowa Summer Writing Festival Online Workshop Registration Now Open

Friday, April 23, 2021

The American Academy of Arts and Letters has honored five University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduates and a former visiting faculty member with its 2021 awards!

Thursday, April 22, 2021
https://now.uiowa.edu/2021/04/7-writers-iowa-ties-earn-prestigious-literary-honors
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Carmen Maria Machado in conversation with Garth Greenwell

Monday, April 12, 2021

Congratulations to the 2021 Guggenheim Fellows, including those with Iowa connections: Sandra Lim, Stephen Kuusisto, Tracie Morris, Alexander Chee, and Tayari Jones!

Friday, April 9, 2021
https://www.gf.org/news/fellows-news/2021-guggenheim-fellowships-announced/

Congratulations to Iowa Writers' Workshop alum Shira Dentz, winner of the Eugene Paul Nassar Prize, for her new book, 'Sisyphusina'

Wednesday, April 7, 2021
https://hvwg.org/2021/03/sisyphusina-by-shira-dentz-wins-the-eugene-paul-nassar-prize/

A New York Times Review of NWP professor Melissa Febos' GIRLHOOD calls it "smart, radical company, and not ordinary at all.”

Friday, April 2, 2021
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/30/books/review/girlhood-melissa-febos.html

International Writing Program alums Kwame Dawes and Pierre Joris among the 2021 PEN America Literary Awards Program career achievement award winners

Friday, April 2, 2021
https://pen.org/literary-awards/2021-pen-america-literary-awards-career-achievement-winners/
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