2011 Iowa Summer Writing Festival Now Accepting Registrations

February 17, 2011

The Iowa Summer Writing Festival at the University of Iowa is now accepting registrations for its 2011 sessions. Weeklong and weekend workshops including fiction, poetry, nonfiction and playwriting will run from June 12 through July 29. In all, more than 150 noncredit workshops will be held. Visit the Iowa Summer Writing Festival website for a full list of sessions and biographic sketches of the faculty.

A brochure is available by mail, or register at http://www.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu/UIConferences. Registrants may sign up for only one workshop per session, but they may register for as many sessions as they wish. Payment is required at the time of registration.

The Iowa Summer Writing Festival, based at the world's premier academic center for creative writing for more than two decades, is designed to benefit writers at all levels of experience and achievement. In small groups -- festival classes include no more than a dozen participants -- adult writers of all ages from throughout the country share, read and discuss their work under the leadership of accomplished writer/educators. The atmosphere is constructive and supportive.

Fiction | Poetry | Nonfiction | Dramatic Writing | Journalism | Translation | Summer Writing Festival
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Fedosy Santaella and Roberto Echeto Live Discussion

February 16, 2010

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La página web de la Writing University (Universidad de Escritura) presenta hoy una charla con Fedosy Santaella, un participante anterior del IWP (Programa Internacional de Escritura), y Roberto Echeto, a las 15:00 (CST). Es la primera Conversación en Vivo que ocurre exclusivamente en español. Se producirá un transcrito en inglés después de la charla. Las temas de conversación incluye la literatura/la cultura pop y la literatura/el humor. Para más información, visita sus página web:
Fedosy Santaella
Roberto Echeto

Fedosy Santaella (fiction writer; Venezuela) has published two novels, four short story collections and one novel and three collections of children’s stories. The novel The Unpublished Eventful Journeys of Teofilus (Alfaguara, 2009) is the most recent one. His short story collection Postales sub sole won the 2006 Pocaterra Latin American Literature Biennial’s Novel Prize, and the story collection Moon Rocks was recognized in the 2007 José Antonio Ramos Sucre Literary Biennial. He has written for HBO and Cinemax, and contributes to magazines and newspapers in Venezuela. Santaella is the Creative Writing Workshop coordinator at UNIMET in Caracas. He is also the editor of the literary webzine http://www.hermanoschang.blogspot.com since 2006.

Fedosy Santaella participated in the 2009 IWP Fall Residency courtesy of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State.

Born in Caracas, Venezuela in 1970, Roberto Echeto graduated in humanities from Universidad Católica Andres Bello. He is a radio producer, journalist, graphic artist and writer, contributing essays and opinions to dailies such as El Nacional and to the journals Claro and El Malpensante. He is the author of the novel No habrá final and of two short story collections (Cuentos líquidos and Breviario galante). Since 2005 he blogs at http://www.robertoecheto.blogspot.com.

Alumni | Fiction | Translation | International Writing Program
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UI Translation Alum Thow Wins Fulbright Research Grant

May 14, 2009

Diana Thow, a graduate of the University of Iowa's Translation Workshop, has been awarded a 2009-10 Fulbright Research Grant to Italy for a project entitled "Amelia Rosselli: Across Language."

While in Italy, Thow will work in the archives (located in the north of Italy in a town called Pavia and on the outskirts of Rome) that contain the papers, manuscripts, journals and correspondence of the poet Amelia Rosselli, the subject of Thow's MFA thesis at Iowa. She will continue to translate Rosselli's poetry, and compile an edition of her uncollected English writings.

Thow is a graduate of the MFA program in literary translation and former editor of eXchanges magazine.

Alumni | Translation | Translation MFA
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UNESCO Gala Event at the Englert Theater, April 7

April 03, 2009

The University of Iowa and Iowa City welcomed Ali Bowden, the director of Edinburgh’s City of Literature and a driving force behind UNESCO’s Creative Cities Network, with a public event on Tuesday, April 7 at 5 p.m. at the Englert Theater. The entire community was invited to attend this talk and reception, with the purpose of understanding the possibilities for Iowa City as a UNESCO City of Literature. Ms. Bowden also be discussed the Network of Cities of Literature, which now includes Edinburgh, Iowa City and Melbourne and will soon be expanding to other cities.

The event featured a reading by poet laureate Marvin Bell, remarks by former Iowa City Mayor Ross Wilburn and comments from the University of Iowa President Sally Mason. For more information visit http://www.unescoiowacity.com.

Iowa Writers' Workshop | Fiction | Poetry | Nonfiction | Translation | English Department | International Writing Program | Nonfiction Writing Program | Playwrights Workshop | School of Journalism | UNESCO
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