Past Entries
February, 2012
The Examined Life: Writing and the Art of Medicine Conference
January, 2012
Crossing: A Braided MemoirUI expands writing options for undergrads
Novel conceived at the UI begins week of Writing University streams
The Iowa Review Awards Now Accepting Submissions
December, 2011
IWP Announces New WebsiteThe Iowa Review Winter Issue Announced
Call for Submissions: Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry
We Wanted To Be Writers: Live from Prairie Lights
November, 2011
Poetry opened doors wide for Eduardo CorralIowa and Invisible Man: Making Blackness Visible
Eula Biss & David Trinidad, reading and Q&A
UI to Offer MFA in Spanish Creative Writing
October, 2011
Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka to Read at UIUI writing alumni McCrae and Corral win prestigious Whiting Awards
Susan Orlean Brings New Book to Englert October 20th
Leaner than Light: 12 Frames of Paul Engle
Glancing through a Chinese window: poets Xi Chuan and Zhou Zan read from their work
September, 2011
Justin Torres on the Lit ShowLive Discussion with Ilya Kaminsky
Mysterious Paper Sculptures in UNESCO Sister City
Jerald Walker’s Dragon Slayers
August, 2011
UI poets read at benefit event for former faculty member Dean YoungWorkshop alumnus Levine named U.S. Poet Laureate
Reykjavik becomes the fifth UNESCO City of Literature
July, 2011
Bookworms Unite at Iowa City Book FestivalPoets and Writers Magazine: Iowa Writers’ Workshop at Seventy-Five
Thomas Fox Averill, a Writers’ Workshop alumnus, opens week of UI live streams
Summer Rep continues run with six shows July 5–10
June, 2011
Iowa City Book Festival in Oprah’s ‘O’ MagazineBOOKMARKS Book Art of Johnson County Debuts
The Iowa Writers’ Workshop’s 75th Anniversary
May, 2011
New Archived Readings: Levine, Glazer, Orner and moreIC Literary Walk Expanding to the North Side
Center for the Book faculty featured in new publication
DI: ‘The famous Writers’ Workshop softball game continues’
Online Journals by UI Alumni: Transom and Wag’s Revue
“Writers Gone Public” Readings
April, 2011
Julie Orringer on 2011 Orange Prize LonglistPulitzer-winning alum Harding to give free reading April 21 in Shambaugh Auditorium
McGurl’s ‘The Program Era’ Wins Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism
Iowa Writers’ Workshop Featured on PBS “News Hour”
‘Blueprints: Bringing Poetry into Communities’ includes UI Alumni and Faculty
March, 2011
Mission Creek Festival Literary LineupCCL Faculty’s Anthology Receives Multiple Awards
IWP alum Hamdy El-Gazzar shares his experience in Egypt
February, 2011
A Documentary of 2010 IWP writersWayne Koestenbaum to present public reading
2011 Iowa Summer Writing Festival Now Accepting Registrations
IWP Alum Ghada Abdel Aal in Egypt
Awaiting Publication of Chris Adrian’s The Great Night
Georgia College Releases Flannery O’Connor Cartoons
January, 2011
H.M. Naqvi wins first DSC Prize for South Asian LiteratureUI Center for the Book to offer a Master of Fine Arts
December, 2010
Hot Tin Roof Writing ContestReviews: Iowa Writers’ Workshop alum’s first collection
November, 2010
UI Press Releases ‘Twain in His Own Time’The Atlantic’s ‘Books of the Year 2010’
Writers’ Workshop Alum’s New Novel Appears in New York Times Sunday Book Review
Washington Post: IWP Participant Ghada Abdel Aal Book’s as TV Comedy
Live Online Reading & Discussion: ‘Irish Poetry Now’
New iPhone app: Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature
October, 2010
Pulitzer Prize Winner James Tate Reads Thursday, Oct. 21Audio & Text Discussion with Horacio Castellanos Moya
International Writing Program Recognized as a Model for Cultural Diplomacy
September, 2010
New UI Press Book Introduces Lyrical Haitian StorytellerJournalist Steve Berry: Be Remarkable
Iowa Writers’ Workshop Graduate Dora Malech Receives Ruth Lilly Fellowship
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 3-8Book 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