International Writing Program

Christopher Merrill, Director. Phone: (319) 335-0128.
For more information, visit http://www.uiowa.edu/~iwp.

Founded in 1967 by Paul Engle and Hualing Nieh Engle, the IWP was the first writers residency to reach out across national borders, and remains unique in the world of creative writing. Established writers from across the globe gather for three fall months in Iowa City, becoming part of the lively literary community on and off campus. Over the years, the IWP has hosted more than 1,000 writers from more than 100 countries.

Articles:
IWP Announces New Website
Poetry opened doors wide for Eduardo Corral
Glancing through a Chinese window: poets Xi Chuan and Zhou Zan read from their work
New ‘On the Fly’ Videos
New Archived Readings: Levine, Glazer, Orner and more
IWP alum Hamdy El-Gazzar shares his experience in Egypt
A Documentary of 2010 IWP writers
IWP Alum Ghada Abdel Aal in Egypt
H.M. Naqvi wins first DSC Prize for South Asian Literature
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
Audio & Text Discussion with Horacio Castellanos Moya
International Writing Program Recognized as a Model for Cultural Diplomacy
IWP Starts Year with Three Free Events
Live Discussion with Edan Lepucki and Kristin Hatch
Live Discussion with Thomas Pletzinger, March 26 12PM
New “Conversations from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop” Featured on Big Ten Network
Live Discussion with Yasser Abdel-Latif, Feb. 26th, 2PM
Fedosy Santaella and Roberto Echeto Live Discussion
IWP Alum Maxine Case Live Discussion, Feb. 11
IWP Participant Wins International Journalist Award
“Writing the World”: UI Graduate College Highlights the IWP
Second Life Readings Presented by the UI Grad College and IWP
Live Discussions on the Writing University website
Tomaž Šalamun Wins Prestigious ‘Struga Poetry Evenings’ Award
Meet the IWP: Ge Fei
Meet the IWP: Alice Pung
UI Unveils 30 Years of Interviews with International Writers
91st Meridian’s New Issue Online
UNESCO Gala Event at the Englert Theater, April 7
IWP Alum Anat Pick Featured on ‘Hard to Say’ Podcast
UNESCO City of Literature Photo Gallery Now Online
UNESCO designates Iowa City as the world’s third City of Literature
Interactive World Map Features IWP Writers
Middle East Reading and Lecture Tour Presents to Saudi Literati
Aeronwy Thomas and Peter Thabit Jones to Present a Dylan Thomas Tribute
IWP Alum Clifton Wins Irish Poetry Award
IWP Alumnus Khaled Khalifa on short-list for ‘International Prize for Arabic Fiction’
Bi Feiyu’s ‘The Moon Opera’ selected for Independent Foreign Fiction Prize long-list
Words Without Borders Highlights the IWP’s Anniversary
Book Launch- “Edwin Thumboo: Creating A Nation Through Poetry”
Autumn Hill Books Receives Grant to Translate Croatian Author
UI Museum of Art Hosts Writer-in-Residence Program
Review: Mimi Khalvati’s newest collection ‘The Meanest Flower’
Review of Ehud Havazelet’s new work “Bearing the Body”
University Exhibit Highlights the IWP and East Asian Writers
Charles Simic named 2007 Poet Laureate
“Muse India”: Literary e-journal
Roberto Ampuero Awarded China-Chile Prize
Etgar Keret Wins Camera d’Or at Cannes
From the VWU Archive: “Tort’s Bitter Marriage”
IWP’s Second ‘New Symposium’ In Paros, Greece, Will Consider ‘Justice’
Etienne Van Heerden’s ‘LitNet’
New Issue of ‘91st Meridian’ Online
NEA Awards IWP Alumnus Alexis Stamatis’ ‘American Fugue’
Martin Roper Interview (Part One)
Nobel Lecture by Orhan Pamuk, ‘My Father’s Suitcase’
Orhan Pamuk Wins 2006 Nobel Prize In Literature
Recommended: J.-K. Huysmans
Oscar Hahn
IWP 40th Anniversary News:

Podcasts:
WU Podcast: Workshop/IWP Reading > Nkengasong, Eltayeb and Talone
Writing University Podcast: IWP Participants Raimo and Madzirov
From the Archive: Mark Leidner, Véronique Tadjo, Doris Kareva

Upcoming Events:
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Past Events:
Wole Soyinka reading, 11/06/11
Wole Soyinka Award Presentation, 11/06/11
Paul Engle Award Ceremony, 10/12/11
Ilya Kaminsky reading, 9/21/11
Christopher Merrill reading, 9/20/11
GRANTA reading, 9/06/11
Dean Young Benefit reading, 8/31/11
The Writer as Public Figure, 6/11/11
Sunday Night IWP/IWW reading, 11/07/10
IWP Friday Night reading, 11/05/10
Sunday Night IWP/IWW reading, 10/31/10
IWP Friday Night reading, 10/29/10
Sunday Night IWP/IWW reading, 10/17/10
IWP Friday Night reading, 10/15/10
Sunday Night IWP/IWW reading, 10/10/10
IWP Friday Night reading, 10/08/10
Sunday Night IWP/IWW reading, 10/03/10
Sunday Night IWP/IWW reading, 9/26/10
IWP Friday Night reading, 9/24/10
Sunday Night IWP/IWW reading, 9/19/10
IWP Friday Night reading, 9/17/10
Sunday Night IWP/IWW reading, 9/12/10
IWP Friday Night reading, 9/10/10
Sunday Night IWP/IWW reading, 9/05/10
IWP Friday Night reading, 9/03/10
Tarek Eltayeb and Dunya Mikhail Readings, 7/18/10
Christopher Merrill talk, 6/15/10
Literary Death Match, 4/03/10
Colson Whitehead, Eula Biss, Kiki Petrosino reading, 4/03/10
IWP Cinemathèque, 11/04/09
Leaner than Light: 12 Frames of Paul Engle, 10/24/09
Global Express, 10/24/09
Leaner than Light: 12 Frames of Paul Engle, 10/23/09
IWP Shambaugh House reading, 10/16/09
ICPL Panel: ‘Questions of Travel’, 10/16/09
Live Discussion: Marvin Bell and Christopher Merrill, 10/15/09
Christopher Merrill and Marvin Bell reading, 10/14/09
Live Discussion: Eavan Boland, 10/14/09
Eavan Boland reading, 10/12/09
IWP/Writers’ Workshop reading, 10/11/09
ICPL Panel: ‘1989-2009’, 10/09/09
Small Octopus of Death Anthology, 9/25/09
ICPL Panel: Translation/Writing Between Languages, 9/25/09
Cinematheque: “Namets!”, 9/23/09
IWP and Writers’ Workshop reading, 9/20/09
IWP Shambaugh House Reading, 9/18/09
ICPL Panel: What’s in a Name?, 9/18/09
Fflur Dafydd, Nerissa Campbel and Sarah Cram performance, 9/16/09
IWP Cinemathèque: Divine Intervention, 9/16/09
Open World reading, 9/15/09
IWP and Writers’ Workshop reading, 9/13/09
Matvei Yankelevich reading, 9/11/09
IWP Shambaugh House Reading, 9/11/09
ICPL Panel: Teaching Writing, 9/11/09
Small Press and World Lit Roundtable, 9/10/09
IWP Cinemathèque: Caramel, 9/09/09
Fflur Dafydd reading, 9/09/09
ICPL Panel: Literature of Desire, 9/04/09
UNESCO Gala Event, 4/07/09
Magdalena Zurawski, C.A. Conrad, and Aaron Kunin reading, 3/07/09
Earthwords reading: Joe Tiefenthaler, 3/04/09
Yiyun Li reading, 3/03/09
Anthology Reading Series, 11/07/08
ICPL Panel: Images of America, 11/07/08
IWP Cinematheque Presents Screening: Widow, 10/26/08
Writers’ Workshop/International Writing Program Reading, 10/26/08
International Writing Program Friday Reading: Open World, 10/24/08
Lecture: “Working as a Translator and Critic of International Literature”, 10/23/08
WSWU session: ‘Science and Creative Writing’, 10/10/08
WSWU session: ‘Scientist Meets Writer: A Discussion’, 10/08/08
WSWU session: ‘Communicating Science in Writing’, 10/08/08
Richard Kenney reading, 10/07/08
Panel: “Writing in Translation/ Writing Across Languages”, 9/26/08
Cinemetheque: Film “Fists in the Pockets”, 9/21/08
A Tribute to David Foster Wallace, 9/16/08
Panel: “Note to Self: Why I Write What I Write”, 9/12/08
International Writing Program Panel: “The City”, 9/05/08
Kevin Gonzalez reading, 5/15/08
Whenever We Feel Like It poetry reading, 5/03/08
Aeronwy Thomas & Peter Thabit-Jones reading, 4/28/08
Pierre-Damien Mvuyekure lecture, 4/25/08
Pierre-Damien Mvuyekure reading, 4/24/08
Old Capitol Film Series, 2/22/08
Lecture: Martin Davidson, Head of the British Council, 12/06/07
WSUI’s ‘The Exchange’: Christopher Merrill, 12/06/07
Talk: Kirpal Singh on “Edwin Thumboo: Creating a Nation Though Poetry”, 11/09/07
Book Launch- “Edwin Thumboo: Creating A Nation Through Poetry”, 11/08/07
International Writing Program Friday Reading, 11/02/07
Annual MFA Translation reading, 11/01/07
The World of Creole Languages: Thoughts from Haiti and Jamaica, 10/29/07
ICPL Panel: Writing as Philosophy and Craft, 10/26/07
John Matthias reading, 10/23/07
Kei Miller reading, 10/22/07
International Literature Today, 10/22/07
Peter Cole reading, 10/18/07
Salon: Stepping or Stomping Out of the Shadow of the Avant-Garde?, 10/16/07
Paul Engle Memorial Reading: Tomaž Šalamun, 10/12/07
“A Community of Writers: Creative Writing at the University of Iowa”: Exhibit Opening, 10/12/07
Panel: Cultural Diplomacy: The Writer and the World, 10/12/07
Panel: State of the Art: Literature From Where I Stand, 10/12/07