2010 Iowa Summer Writing Festival Now Accepting Registrations

March 01, 2010

The Iowa Summer Writing Festival at the University of Iowa is now accepting registrations for its 2010 sessions. Weeklong and weekend workshops including fiction, poetry, nonfiction and playwriting will run from June 13 through July 30. 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 now available by mail, or registration forms may be printed from http://www.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu/iswfest/html/registration/Registration_Form.html 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.

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IWP Participant Wins International Journalist Award

December 15, 2009

Michal Hvorecky, a Slovak alumnus of the University of Iowa's 2004 International Writing Program (IWP), is the winner of the International Journalist Award, 1989 – 2009: Europe in Dialog. The award is sponsored by MitOst, which promotes cultural and language exchange programs in central, eastern and southeastern Europe. The award is co-financed by the European Union.

Print journalists between the ages of 18 and 35 from 55 European countries were eligible to compete for the award by submitting an article on the process of Europeans leaving behind the old dividing lines between East and West. Hvorecky’s winning submission is entitled: “Childhood’s End: Summer 1989.” He is the author of two short-story collections and three novels. He also writes as a freelance journalist for Slovak newspapers.

Read an English translation of Hvorecky’s award-winning article here.

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‘Pulitzer Town’ Timeline Highlights Iowa City’s Prize Recipients

February 18, 2009

Compiling the Pulitzer Prize winning authors that have been associated with the University of Iowa through the years, Little Village magazine recently constructed an extensive 'Pulitzer Town' timeline, that harvests the history of Iowa's awarded writers, complete with images and biographies. From early Pulitzer recipients Robert Lowell and Tennessee Williams to modern winners Robert Hass and Marilynne Robinson, the diagram allows viewers to explore the authors and navigate their way through the interwoven history between the prize and Iowa City. Visit the timeline here: Pulitzer Town

Little Village is a free monthly news and entertainment magazine covering news and culture from a refreshing perspective in Iowa City. Visit their website here: LittleVillageMag.com

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eXchanges Winter Issue “Black and White” Released

February 21, 2008

UI's online journal of literary translation

eXchanges, the University of Iowa’s online journal of literary translation, announced the launch of its winter issue “Black and White” this week. This issue includes the translations of American poet Gerald Stern into German by IWP alumnus Thomas Pletzinger, as well as poems from Slovene, short stories from Catalan and Spanish, and logogrammes from French.
To read these and other translations visit the eXchanges website at http://www.uiowa.edu/~xchanges.

Fiction | Poetry | Nonfiction | Journalism | Translation
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Writers’ Workshop Director Samantha Chang Discusses the Iowa Caucus in NY Times

January 01, 2008

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Iowa Writers' Workshop director Lan Samantha Chang writes about her experience living in Iowa City during the primary season in this New York Times Op-Ed piece "...And Now Iowa". Read about her encounters and observations in the days and weeks leading up to the famed Iowa Caucus here:

The New York Times>> "... And Iowa Now"

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