Summer Writing Festival

Amy Margolis, Director. Phone: (319) 335-4160.
For more information, visit http://www.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu/iswfest/html/welcome/index.html.

The Iowa Summer Writing Festival consists of 136 different non-credit workshops, open to writers 21 years and older (no previous experience necessary). One-week and weekend sessions offered throughout June and July, in workshop format, in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, essay, and more.

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2008 Iowa Summer Writing Festival Begins

Podcasts:
WU Podcast: Marc Nieson—“Making Words Count”
Writing University Podcast: Mary Allen
David Bouchier: “The Word Diet - Avoiding Verbosity”
Marcos M. Villatoro: “Finding Inspiration from the Work Itself”
Katie Ford: “Ghost Forms: Using Traditional Form in Free Verse
Lon Otto: “Avoiding Literary Thin Ice”
Hope Edelman: “The Law and Ethics of Writing About Real People”
Carl H. Klaus: “Days into Daybooks, a Voice for All Seasons”
Marilyn Abildskov - “Leap: Imagination in Nonfiction”
Venise Berry, “Writing with Ethnic Diversity”
Marc Nieson, “Making Words Count”
Sands Hall: “Building Characters”
David Hamilton: “A Baker’s (Half) Dozen Ways of Looking at a Literary Magazine”
Jim Heynan: “Same Content/Different Form”
Christine Hemp on Writing About Happiness
Katherine Min: “What I Learned on a Book Tour (And Other Musings of a Debut Novelist)”
Sandra Scofield on “Ways of Reading”
Janet Desaulniers: “You Realize You’ve Been Doing This Thing All Wrong, Right?”

Upcoming Events:
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Past Events:
The Eleventh Hour: Mary Allen—The Slow-Developing Picture: Writing a Family Memoir, 7/28/11
The Eleventh Hour: Sam Samuels—Writing The Query Letter, 7/27/11
The Eleventh Hour: Robert Siegel—Haiku for Prose Writers: Exploring the Power of the Image, 7/26/11
The Eleventh Hour: Hugh Ferrer—A Word from Dr. Frankenstein: Giving Life to Fiction, 7/25/11
The Eleventh Hour: Susan Taylor Chehak—This is Your Brain on Books, 7/21/11
The Eleventh Hour: Fritz McDonald—Fact vs. Fiction: Why Memoir Needs Both, 7/20/11
The Eleventh Hour: Kate Aspengren—27 Things You’ve Always Wanted To Know About Playwriti, 7/19/11
The Eleventh Hour: Eula Biss—Research and the Personal Essay, 7/18/11
The Eleventh Hour: Kathleen Rooney—The Evilly Compounded, Vital I: Point of View in Creative N, 7/14/11
The Eleventh Hour: Megan Gogerty—A Guy Walks Into A Bar, and other Perception Shifts, 7/13/11
The Eleventh Hour: Venise Berry—Clarity and Depth, 7/12/11
The Eleventh Hour: John Dalton—What do Readers of Fiction Most Value in a Novel?, 7/11/11
The Eleventh Hour: James Allen Hall—Don’t Stand So Close to Me: Strategic Uses of Point , 6/30/11
The Eleventh Hour: Jim Heynen & Panel—The Place of Conviction and Belief in our Writing, 6/29/11
The Eleventh Hour: Karen Bender—The 10 Commandments for Becoming a Writer, 6/28/11
The Eleventh Hour: Tim Bascom—Party Line: Finding a More Purposeful Feedback for Our Writing, 6/27/11
The Eleventh Hour: Peter Trachtenberg—Apocalyptic Lit, 6/23/11
The Eleventh Hour: Elizabeth Robinson—How to Submit to Literary Periodicals, 6/21/11
The Eleventh Hour: Sands Hall & Panel—In the “I” of the Storm, 6/20/11
Betty Auchard reading, 6/14/11
Elevenses: Linda Bendorf, 7/30/08
Elevenses: Kate Aspengren, 7/29/08
Elevenses: Marc Nieson, 7/28/08
Brett Anthony Johnson reading, 7/24/08
Elevenses: Bret Anthony Johnston, 7/24/08
Elevenses: Charles Holdefer, 7/23/08
Elevenses: Sam Samuels, 7/22/08
Elevenses: Faith Adiele, 7/17/08
Elevenses: BK Loren, 7/16/08
Elevenses: Sarah Saffian & Hope Edelman, 7/15/08
Elevenses: Katie Ford, 7/14/08
Elevenses: Lan Samantha Chang, 7/10/08
Elevenses: Sandra Scofield, 7/09/08
Michael Morse, 7/08/08
Elevenses: Susan Taylor Chehak, 7/07/08
Cancelled—Elevenses: Laura Fraser, 6/18/08
Elevenses: John Dalton, 6/12/08
Cancelled—Elevenses: Cheryl Fusco Johnson, 6/11/08
Elevenses: Juliet Patterson, 6/10/08
Summer Writing Programs Dinner, 11/20/07