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The Sundance Institute announced the four fellows and projects selected for the 2012 NativeLab Fellowship, a two-stage development program that provides continuous and direct support to Native American, Native Hawaiian, and Alaskan Native film...
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Binyavanga Wainana’s fantastic new book, One Day I Will Write About This Place explodes the boundaries of memoir and our notions of what it means to be a contemporary African. The book is part travelogue, part coming-of-age story, part African...
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The Legacy of David Foster Wallace, edited by Samuel Cohen of the University of Missouri and Lee Konstantinou of Princeton University, is now available from the University of Iowa Press.
Considered by many to be the greatest writer of his generation...
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"The first thing you see are the cigarette butts. There are thousands of them — 4,213 to be exact — mounted behind plexiglass on the ground floor of the Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk’s new museum, named for and based on his 2008 novel, 'The Museum of...
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"In hindsight, novelist Paul Harding’s path to publication is every writer’s dream. After years of rejection, his first novel, “Tinkers,” finally found a small literary press willing to publish the unusual story about the hallucinations of a...
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Mystery writer Ridley Pearson, science writer Carl Zimmer, and novelist Laura Moriarty are among a rich lineup of writers who will take part in the Iowa City Book Festival (ICBF) this summer, the University of Iowa Libraries announced today.
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Among the buildings on the University of Iowa campus, some of the most adversely affected by the 2008 flood were buildings central to art studies and programming. The Art and Art History buildings, the University’s Museum of Art, Hancher Auditorium...
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Independent publisher Magic Helicopter Press has recently released Iowa Writers' Workshop alum Jordan Stempleman’s newest collection of poetry No, Not Today.
Poet Heather Christle writes about the collection, "With affectionate and funny familiarity...
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The Iowa Writers' Workshop, The Frank N. Magid Undergraduate Writing Center, The Undergraduate Creative Writing Track, and Prairie Lights cordially invite you to attend a reading by two of the freshest young voices in American fiction: Vinnie...
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Leopold Brizuela, Argentine author and 2003 resident of the International Writing Program, was awarded the 2012 Alfaguara Novel Prize for his work Una misma noche. The prize consists of a $175,000 award and a sculpture by Marin Chirino. The...
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WASHINGTON (April 5, 2012) — President Barack Obama yesterday appointed Christopher Merrill, American poet, essayist, journalist, and translator, to serve on the National Council on the Humanities, the advisory body of the National Endowment for the...
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In this National Post book review, Philip Marchand looks at the collected essays in Marilynne Robinson's When I Was a Child I Read Books, describing the scholarly and subtle examination of various beliefs and systems that Robinson undertakes in...
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We are proud to announce the release of our newly redesigned website for the Writing University! With the update, we’ve been able to improve navigation, connect visitors with events happening in and around Iowa City, and provide enhanced content,...
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Independent publisher Rescue Press has recently released titles by two Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni: Vinnie Wilhelm’s IN THE ABSENCE OF PREDATORS and Melissa Dickey’s THE LILY WILL.
Shot through with dark humor, desolate landscapes, and...
