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

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

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

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

5Q Interview: Kyler Johnson, Co-President of the Translate Iowa Project

"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

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

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

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