Past Entries
August, 2010
IWP Starts Year with Three Free EventsPATV 18’s Coverage of the 2010 Iowa City Book Festival
Former Writers’ Workshop Faculty Member Pays His Way with Poetry
Director Amy Margolis’s Reflections on the Iowa Summer Writing Festival
July, 2010
Wag’s Revue Features 5 University of Iowa Authors10,000 Pages of Poetry in 100 Days
Writers’ Workshop Graduate Catherine Knepper Helps Authors Get Published
Marylinne Robinson on The Daily Show
UI Press Releases New Anthology by Celebrated Iowa Author Susan Glaspell
June, 2010
The Daily Palette: A Website for Iowa Artists and Writers7 University of Iowa Graduates Make The New Yorker’s “20 Under 40” List
Yiyun Li Discussion of the Vagrants with San Jose Mercury News
Feature on Paul Harding: 2010 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Fiction
“Elevenses” Open the Iowa Summer Writing Festival to the Public
May, 2010
Live Discussion with Edan Lepucki and Kristin HatchIowa City Book Festival, July 16-18
Seth Lerer Wins 2010 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism
“The Pleasure of Ideas”: an interview with James Galvin
April, 2010
Iowa New Play Festival May 3-8The Examined Life: Writing and the Art of Medicine Conference
Book Reviews: Hynes, Bognanni, Watrous
March, 2010
New In-Depth Biography Project UnderwayObama Stops to Browse at Prairie Lights Bookstore
Live Discussion with Thomas Pletzinger, March 26 12PM
Four UI Grads Featured in ‘Best Women’s Travel Writing 2010’
New “Conversations from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop” Featured on Big Ten Network
Live Discussion with Tarek Eltayeb, March 5, 11am
2010 Iowa Summer Writing Festival Now Accepting Registrations
February, 2010
Live Discussion with Yasser Abdel-Latif, Feb. 26th, 2PMUI ‘Student Book Collection Competition’ Announced
Fedosy Santaella and Roberto Echeto Live Discussion
UNESCO City of Literature events: “The Big Read” and “Carry a Poem”
IWP Alum Maxine Case Live Discussion, Feb. 11
Live Discussion with Alice Pung
January, 2010
UI Patient Voice Project Helps Tap into Creative StrengthVeterans invited to free UI Midwest Writers Workshop
Launch of eXchanges Winter Issue
December, 2009
IWP Participant Wins International Journalist Award2009 Whiting Writers’ Awards To Three Workshop Alumni
November, 2009
“Writing the World”: UI Graduate College Highlights the IWP
October, 2009
Poets & Writers Magazine Ranks Iowa #1Second Life Readings Presented by the UI Grad College and IWP
UI Press Marks 150th Anniversary of ‘Leaves of Grass’ with Facsimile Edition
Live Discussions on the Writing University website
Announcing The Iowa Review Design Contest
September, 2009
New UI Press Anthology Traces Influence of Wallace StevensUI Center for the Book Professor Awarded 2009 MacArthur Genius Grant
Book Reviews: Glück, Kidder, Westlake
Tomaž Šalamun Wins Prestigious ‘Struga Poetry Evenings’ Award
Winners of the 2009 Iowa Short-Fiction Awards
August, 2009
Workshop Alum and NWP Candidate Highlighted in AnthologyHighlighted ISWF Staff: Amy Margolis and Caryl Pagel
POROI Releases Summer Journal, Volume 6.1
July, 2009
UI Unveils 30 Years of Interviews with International WritersValentino to succeed Hamilton as editor of ‘The Iowa Review’
UI Libraries Host the ‘Iowa City Book Festival’ July 18
June, 2009
T.C. Boyle Interviewed in Wag’s ReviewMarilynne Robinson Wins Orange Prize
New Flannery O’Connor Graduate Fellowships Provide Aid for Writers’ Workshop Students
Iowa Public Radio Donates ‘Live from Prairie Lights’ Recordings to UI Libraries
Live Discussion: UI Nonfiction’s Robin Hemley Online Chat
‘Elevenses’ Literary Hour Opens the Iowa Summer Writing Festival to the Public
May, 2009
Workshop Alum Rao’s Novel ‘In Hanuman’s Hands’ ReviewedRobin Hemley’s Article ‘The Great Book Blockade of 2009’ Sparks International Attention
UI Translation Alum Thow Wins Fulbright Research Grant
91st Meridian’s New Issue Online
Workshop Alum Herrera Wins National Book Critics Circle Award
April, 2009
UI Press Releases Two Volumes of Poetry Scholarship‘The Examined Life’ Conference Focuses on Creative Writing in Medical Education
Review: UI Nonfiction Director Hemley’s ‘Do Over’
UI Poetry Class Blog Reviews Readings in Iowa City
UNESCO Gala Event at the Englert Theater, April 7
March, 2009
2008 Iowa Poetry Prize Winner Zach Savich on BlogTalkRadio“Conversations from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop” Premieres on Big Ten Network
Iowa Summer Writing Festival 2009 Registration Now Open
IWP Alum Anat Pick Featured on ‘Hard to Say’ Podcast
February, 2009
WU Podcast: Workshop/IWP Reading > Nkengasong, Eltayeb and TaloneWriting Acts as Therapy, UI Researcher Finds
‘Pulitzer Town’ Timeline Highlights Iowa City’s Prize Recipients
Writing University Podcast: IWP Participants Raimo and Madzirov
Workshop Graduate Featured on ‘Be Remarkable’
Marilynne Robinson’s ‘Gilead’ Listed Among President Obama’s Favorite Books
January, 2009
John Updike, legendary novelist and Pulitzer Prize winner, Dies at 76NY Times Book Review: Unsworth’s “Land of Marvels”
W.D. Snodgrass, Poet and Pulitzer Prize winner, Dies at Age 83
Op-ed: “What writers say about our City of Literature”
Rep. Loebsack Honors Iowa City Being Named a City of Literature on U.S. House Floor
UNESCO City of Literature Photo Gallery Now Online
December, 2008
Mark Doty Wins National Book AwardIowa Alumnus Davis Receives Hopkins Fellowship
Alarcon Wins PEN Literary Prize for Fiction
November, 2008
Nam Le Wins Dylan Thomas PrizeUNESCO designates Iowa City as the world’s third City of Literature
Launch of eXchanges Fall Issue
IWP Alumnus Rapola Awarded Noma Prize
Two IWP Alumni Short-Listed for Man Asian Literature Award
Announcing the New Issue of The Iowa Review, Fall 2008
October, 2008
New Issue of POROI Journal Released