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

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'!

Congratulations to Lan Samantha Chang, Lucy Ives, and Zachary Lazar, on the longlist for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize!

Iowa Playwrights Workshop graduate Samuel D. Hunter talks about his time at Iowa and writing his play, The Whale, now adapted into a film starring Brendan Fraser

In ‘This Other Eden,’ a Historical Tale of Paradise Lost: a fantastic New York Times review of Workshop alum & Pulitzer Prize-winner Paul Harding's new novel

Congratulations to Joy Harjo, winner of the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award and to Vauhini Vara, a finalist for the John Leonard Prize for Best First Book, from The National Book Critics Circle