Highlights

CAMILLE DUNGY NAMED 2024 PAUL ENGLE PRIZE WINNER

Monday, November 11, 2024

https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/camille-dungy-named-2024-paul-engle-prize-winner/

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

Monday, November 4, 2024

https://dailyiowan.com/2024/10/31/sad-me-of-the-past-podcast-connects-iowa-writers-to-their-younger-selves/

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

Monday, November 4, 2024

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/10/24/2022-and-2023-national-medal-of-arts-and-national-humanities-medal-citations/#:~:text=The%20National%20Medal%20of%20Arts,achievement%2C%20support%2C%20or%20patronage

5Q Interview: Anna Davtyan Աննա Դավթյան, IWP Resident

Wednesday, September 18, 2024

"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

https://x.com/BarackObama/status/1823082706462253510

UI Translation Program Alum in the New York Times

Monday, August 5, 2024

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/31/books/translators-debut-novels.html

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

http://spr.ly/6015RRTrZ

University of Iowa English Professor Ed Folsom receives an honorary doctorate from TU Dortmund