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Iowa City: Little town, big on writing

The University of Iowa’s longtime renown and excellence in creative writing contribute to city’s international reputation as a writer’s haven.

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The First and Best Home for Writers

The First and Best Home for Writers is a multimedia overview that focuses on several writing students with a range of backgrounds and disciplines.

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Writing Across Disciplines

Iowa’s unmatched writing-related resources prepare its graduates for success in many fields.

News Highlights

Featured Archive: Jamel Brinkley reading, Live from Prairie Lights, September 14, 2018

Featured Archive: Denis Johnson reading, The University of Iowa, 1991

5Q Interview: Iowa Summer Writing Festival Instructor Tricia Park

A new issue of the Exchanges Journal from the Iowa Translation Workshop is live! Check out "Landmarks" today, with brand new translation work.

The Iowa Summer Writing Festival returns to Iowa City this July and is offering in-person workshops for the first time since 2019!

"When I went to Iowa, how lucky was it that the first reader of my first novel was Kurt Vonnegut. I couldn't have asked for a better mentor than that." -- John Irving

Iowa Playwrights Workshop alum Samuel D. Hunter takes home three awards for his screenplay of "The Whale"

Congratulations to Adedayo Agarau, who has been awarded a Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University

Congratulations to Workshop alum Jamil Jan Kochai, on The Story Prize longlist for 'The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories'!

Writing University Features

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5Q Interview: Christine Evans, UI Press Author

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5Q Interview: WANG Zhanhei 王占黑, IWP Resident

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5Q Interview: Aigerim Tazhi Айгерим Тажи, IWP Resident

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5Q Interview: Noelle Q. De Jesus, IWP Resident

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Featured Archive: Jamel Brinkley reading, Live from Prairie Lights, September 14, 2018

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Featured Archive: Denis Johnson reading, The University of Iowa, 1991

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5Q Interview: Iowa Summer Writing Festival Instructor Tricia Park

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5Q Interview: Maura O'Dea, editor of 'earthwords'

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5Q Interview: Quinlan Stafford, senior editor of The Broken Clock Literary Magazine

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5Q Interview: Margo Skornia, MFA Candidate, Department of Theatre Arts, Dramaturgy

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Featured Archive: Andrew Martin in conversation with Brandon Taylor, Live from Prairie Lights, July 23, 2020

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5Q Interview: Natalie Muglia, editor-in-chief of Wilder Things

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5Q Interview: Christopher Lysik, Playwrights Workshop

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5Q Interview: Clay Scofield, Iowa Writers' Workshop

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Featured Archive: Eavan Boland and Kevin Casey reading, Prairie Lights Bookstore, 1979

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Featured Archive: Jo Ann Beard and Melissa Febos reading, Live from Prairie Lights, March 26, 2021

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5Q Interview: Logan Hoffman-Smith, Iowa Writers' Workshop

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5Q Interview: A. J. Bermudez, UI Press author

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5Q Interview: Jacquelyn Bengfort, Iowa Writers' Workshop

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5Q Interview: Drew Bratcher, UI Press Author