Nonfiction Writing Program

Robin Hemley, Director. Phone: (319) 335-0440.
For more information, visit http://english.uiowa.edu/graduate/mfa/.

The Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa awards an MFA degree to accomplished students of literary nonfiction. Most often, the 48 semester-hour program takes three years to complete, culminating in a thesis of at least 75 pages, either a sustained essay or a collection of shorter pieces. Work in the essay and on prose style is a fundamental feature of the program.

Articles:
Bookworms Unite at Iowa City Book Festival
New Archived Readings: Levine, Glazer, Orner and more
Online Journals by UI Alumni: Transom and Wag’s Revue
Wayne Koestenbaum to present public reading
New iPhone app: Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature
Wag’s Revue Features 5 University of Iowa Authors
Four UI Grads Featured in ‘Best Women’s Travel Writing 2010’
UIMA ‘Word Painter’ Readings Feature Nonfiction Participants
Workshop Alum and NWP Candidate Highlighted in Anthology
Live Discussion: UI Nonfiction’s Robin Hemley Online Chat
Robin Hemley’s Article ‘The Great Book Blockade of 2009’ Sparks International Attention
Review: UI Nonfiction Director Hemley’s ‘Do Over’
UNESCO Gala Event at the Englert Theater, April 7
UNESCO City of Literature Photo Gallery Now Online
UNESCO designates Iowa City as the world’s third City of Literature
NonfictioNOW Conference
UI Playwright Wins At National MFA Playwrights Festival
“Ariadne,” by Janani Sreenivasan
Listen: Ryan Van Meter and Vershawn Ashanti Young
Call for Proposals: 2007 NonfictioNow Conference
Granta’s ‘Best Young American Novelists’
Martin Roper Interview (Part One)
W.D. Snodgrass and Lia Purpura Finalists for NBCC Awards
Rebecca Sheir (NWP, ‘06) on Public Radio This Weekend
Pico Iyer Interview: “Every writer is an outsider on the subject he is writing about”
Author Spotlight: Heidi Julavits
Three Writers’ Workshop Alumni Receive Whiting Awards
“The Best Museum Benches in the Country” & Other Podcasts

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Past Events:
David Rakoff reading: cancelled, 12/05/11
Sigrid Nunez reading, 10/31/11
Maggie Nelson reading, 10/03/11
Jerald Walker reading, 4/15/11
Margo Jefferson reading, 4/13/11
Joy Castro reading, 3/23/11
Wayne Koestenbaum reading, 3/02/11
Anthology reading, 11/05/10
Elevenses: Carl Klaus, 6/28/10
Colson Whitehead, Eula Biss, Kiki Petrosino reading, 4/03/10
Sarah Gorham Q&A, 4/02/10
Ashley Butler reading, 4/01/10
Stephanie Griest, Marissa Handler, Jen Percy and Kendra Greene reading, 3/28/10
Thalia Field reading, 3/25/10
John D’Agata reading, 2/10/10
Jerald Walker reading, 2/01/10
Gretel Ehrlich reading, 11/11/09
Who’s for Dinner Anthology, 10/23/09
Michael Silverblatt, 10/01/09
Kate Greenstreet, Elizabeth Robinson and Colleen Lookinbill reading, 9/30/09
Small Octopus of Death Anthology, 9/25/09
John D’Agata, James Galvin, Elizabeth McCracken & David Hamilton reading, 9/16/09
Anthology Readings: “Becky and the Stove Anthology”, 9/04/09
Robin Hemley reading, 6/11/09
Writers Gone Public, 5/05/09
Writers Gone Public, 5/04/09
Xu Xi reading, 4/30/09
Word Painter reading, 4/24/09
Eula Biss reading, 4/15/09
Honor Moore reading, 4/09/09
UNESCO Gala Event, 4/07/09
Josh Raskin screening and discussion, 3/11/09
Anne Fadiman reading, 3/09/09
Jill Bialosky reading, 2/26/09
WSWU session: ‘Science and Creative Writing’, 10/10/08
WSWU session: ‘Scientist Meets Writer: A Discussion’, 10/08/08
UIMA Word Painters, 9/19/08
Writers Gone Public, 5/08/08
Writers Gone Public, 5/07/08
Elena Passarello with Jeff Porter, 2/21/08
Writers Gone Public, 12/13/07
Writers Gone Public, 12/12/07
Master Class: Joe Wenderoth, 11/30/07
Joe Wenderoth reading, 11/29/07
Joe Wenderoth Q & A, 11/29/07
Colleen Kinder with Chris Offutt, 11/08/07
Graywolf Press reading, 11/03/07
Richard Rodriguez reading, 11/03/07
University of Iowa Press Reading, 11/03/07
A Tribute to Carl Klaus, 11/03/07
Forum with Editors from the New York Times, 11/03/07
Patricia Hampl reading, 11/02/07
An Afternoon of Stand-Up Tragedy and Comedy with Jonathan Ames, 11/02/07
University of Georgia Press readings, 11/02/07
Ross McElwee Seminar, 11/01/07
University of Nebraska Press reading, 11/01/07
The Lyric Essay: a Reading by Sarabande Press Authors, 11/01/07
Keynote: Patricia Hampl, 11/01/07
Small Press Publishing Q & A with Sarah Gorham, the executive editor of Sarabande Press, 10/31/07
Darcy Frey reading, 10/15/07
Seminar: Darcy Frey on John McPhee’s “Coming Into the Country”, 10/15/07
“A Community of Writers: Creative Writing at the University of Iowa”: Exhibit Opening, 10/12/07
Ashley Butler with Sasa Stanisic and Peter Kimani, 9/20/07
‘Writers Gone Public’, 5/02/07
‘Writers Gone Public’, 5/01/07
Robin Hemley, Patricia Foster, and Riley Hanick Reading, 4/19/07
Robin Hemley Reading, 4/11/07
Jonathan Silin Reading, 4/03/07
‘Modern Love’ Reading, 2/26/07
Stephen Kuusisto Q&A, 2/23/07
UIMA Writer-in-Residence Reading, 2/15/07
Robin Hemley Reading, 11/15/06
Lan Samantha Chang, Cole Swensen, & Matt Davis Reading, 11/09/06