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At the Writing University, we're devoted to delivering the most enlightening, educational and entertaining podcasts from the University of Iowa's creative writing programs. We gather all our offerings together here for you to peruse and enjoy!

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5Q Interview: Essay LIU, IWP Resident from Taiwan

Monday, November 3, 2025

5Q Interview: Azhari AIYUB, IWP Resident from Indonesia

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Merrill to step down as International Writing Program Director

Tuesday, October 14, 2025

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5Q Interview: Florencia DEL CAMPO, IWP Resident from Argentina/Spain

Friday, October 3, 2025

5Q Interview: Vlora KONUSHEVCI, IWP Resident from Kosovo

Friday, September 26, 2025

5Q Interview: Hyukin Michaela KWON, IWP Resident from South Korea

Friday, September 12, 2025

5Q Interview: Ndongolera C. Mwangupili, IWP Resident from Malawi

Friday, September 5, 2025

Bookshelf Picks: Three Summer Reads with Iowa Ties

Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Iowa's Cookbook Collection Among the Nation's Largest

Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Remembering the Iowa Writers’ Workshop’s ‘Compass in the Wilderness’

Wednesday, August 13, 2025

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Upcoming Events

Write Now Hawkeye Haiku Contest

Monday, November 10 to Friday, November 14, 2025 (all day)

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Submit your milestone haiku by Nov. 14!

One Community, One Book: A Conversation with Author & Attorney Carolyn Chalmers and Litigant Dr. Jean Jew

Monday, November 10, 2025 5:00pm to 6:15pm

University of Iowa Main Library

The University of Iowa Center for Human Rights' Fall 2025 One Community, One Book (OCOB) selection is They Don't Want Her There: Fighting Sexual and Racial Harassment in the American University, by Carolyn Chalmers. OCOB is an annual community-wide reading project. This conversation with the author and litigant Jean Jew is free and open to the public. This event will be hosted in person at Shambaugh Auditorium in the University of Iowa Main Library. Paid public parking is available in the...

Live from Prairie Lights | Delaney Nolan in conv with Jamel Brinkley - 'Happy Bad'

Monday, November 10, 2025 7:00pm

Prairie Lights Books

Writers' Workshop graduate Delaney Nolan will read from her new novel, Happy Bad, and will be joined in conversation with University of Iowa Associate Professor Jamel Brinkley.

Astra House gives this plot summary of Happy Bad:

"Beatrice works at Twin Bridge, a chronically underfunded residential treatment center in near-future East Texas, teeming with enraged teenage girls on either too many or not enough drugs. On a normal day, it's difficult for Beatrice and the other staff — Arda, Carmen, and...

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