Highlights

UI Professor Travis Vogan's stunning book on the artist LeRoy Neiman reviewed in The Wall Street Journal

Tuesday, December 3, 2024
⮑ The Wall Street Journal

CAMILLE DUNGY NAMED 2024 PAUL ENGLE PRIZE WINNER

Monday, November 11, 2024
⮑ UNESCO City of Literature

‘Sad Me of the Past’ podcast connects Iowa writers to their younger selves

Monday, November 4, 2024
⮑ The Daily Iowan

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

Monday, November 4, 2024
⮑ The White House
Anna Davtyan by Dirk Skiba

5Q Interview: Anna Davtyan Աննա Դավթյան, IWP Resident

Wednesday, September 18, 2024
⮑ International Writing Program
"I have the full confidence that anything deeply private is completely universal. So I think what is privately Armenian and privately mine is good literature for everyone to read."

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

Tuesday, August 13, 2024
⮑ X.com

UI Translation Program Alum in the New York Times

Monday, August 5, 2024
⮑ 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.

Thursday, June 13, 2024
https://www.facebook.com/universityofiowa/posts/pfbid0VG515ntuDszKzR8bBhkCVj6g3VXxKqzKpiwSjJA8KvKUM3G1LhHco7n8r9RnSWb2l

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

Tuesday, April 30, 2024
https://bit.ly/4d6gTmA

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

Tuesday, March 26, 2024
https://www.artsandletters.org/news?slug=2024literature

Director of the English and Creative Writing Major Kaveh Akbar in the NYTimes

Monday, January 22, 2024
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/19/books/kaveh-akbar-martyr.html

Not sure what book to dive into next? Here is a shortlist of titles released in 2023 by University of Iowa grads, including the latest winner of the National Book Award for Fiction

Tuesday, December 19, 2023
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