Highlights

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

Friday, June 23, 2023
https://clas.uiowa.edu/news/iowa-summer-writing-festival-returns-iowa-city-july

"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

Tuesday, April 11, 2023
https://magazine.foriowa.org/story.php?ed=true&storyid=2292

Iowa Playwrights Workshop alum Samuel D. Hunter takes home three awards for his screenplay of "The Whale"

Monday, March 27, 2023
http://spr.ly/60143cqdC

Congratulations to Adedayo Agarau, who has been awarded a Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University

Thursday, March 23, 2023
https://creativewriting.stanford.edu/stegner-fellowship/wallace-stegner-fellowship

Congratulations to Workshop alum Jamil Jan Kochai, on The Story Prize longlist for 'The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories'!

Thursday, February 16, 2023
https://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-story-prize-longlist-for-story.html

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

Friday, February 10, 2023
https://www.newliteraryproject.org/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

Wednesday, February 8, 2023
https://bit.ly/3kJWHjo

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

Friday, February 3, 2023
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/24/books/review/this-other-eden-paul-harding.html

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

Friday, February 3, 2023
https://www.bookcritics.org/2023/01/31/national-book-critics-circle-announces-finalists-for-publishing-year-2022/

"Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2023" includes new books by UI grads Sabrina Orah Mark, Curtis Sittenfeld, Edan Lepucki, C Pam Zhang, Vauhini Vara & Jamel Brinkley!

Friday, January 27, 2023
https://lithub.com/lit-hubs-most-anticipated-books-of-2023/

Highlighted piece from International Writing Program Director Christopher Merrill on preserving truth-telling

Friday, January 27, 2023
https://michaeljudge.substack.com/p/christopher-merrill-tell-it-slantnotes?utm_source=direct&r=3hmty&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Congratulations to Iowa Writers' Workshop grad Brandon Taylor for this National Book Foundation prize for his wonderful debut, "Real Life"!

Friday, January 27, 2023
https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-books-and-literature-brandon-taylor-china-e705497c49f2dcb36271686feb6f544c
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