Fiction

Articles:
The Examined Life: Writing and the Art of Medicine Conference
Novel conceived at the UI begins week of Writing University streams
The Iowa Review Awards Now Accepting Submissions
Iowa and Invisible Man: Making Blackness Visible
UI to Offer MFA in Spanish Creative Writing
Justin Torres on the Lit Show
Jerald Walker’s Dragon Slayers
The Iowa Review’s Fall Issue
Reykjavik becomes the fifth UNESCO City of Literature
Bookworms Unite at Iowa City Book Festival
Poets and Writers Magazine: Iowa Writers’ Workshop at Seventy-Five
Novel Iowa City Begins Today
2011 Iowa City Book Festival
Thomas Fox Averill, a Writers’ Workshop alumnus, opens week of UI live streams
Iowa City Book Festival in Oprah’s ‘O’ Magazine
BOOKMARKS Book Art of Johnson County Debuts
The Iowa Writers’ Workshop’s 75th Anniversary
New Archived Readings: Levine, Glazer, Orner and more
IC Literary Walk Expanding to the North Side
Online Journals by UI Alumni: Transom and Wag’s Revue
Julie Orringer on 2011 Orange Prize Longlist
Pulitzer-winning alum Harding to give free reading April 21 in Shambaugh Auditorium
Iowa Writers’ Workshop Featured on PBS “News Hour”
Mission Creek Festival Literary Lineup
IWP alum Hamdy El-Gazzar shares his experience in Egypt
2011 Iowa Summer Writing Festival Now Accepting Registrations
Awaiting Publication of Chris Adrian’s The Great Night
Georgia College Releases Flannery O’Connor Cartoons
H.M. Naqvi wins first DSC Prize for South Asian Literature
New Video Series ‘On the Fly’
Hot Tin Roof Writing Contest
Reviews: Iowa Writers’ Workshop alum’s first collection
The Atlantic’s ‘Books of the Year 2010’
New iPhone app: Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature
New UI Press Book Introduces Lyrical Haitian Storyteller
IWP Starts Year with Three Free Events
Director Amy Margolis’s Reflections on the Iowa Summer Writing Festival
Wag’s Revue Features 5 University of Iowa Authors
Writers’ Workshop Graduate Catherine Knepper Helps Authors Get Published
UI Press Releases New Anthology by Celebrated Iowa Author Susan Glaspell
The Daily Palette: A Website for Iowa Artists and Writers
7 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
Live Discussion with Edan Lepucki and Kristin Hatch
Iowa City Book Festival, July 16-18
Paul Harding wins 2010 Pulitzer Prize
New In-Depth Biography Project Underway
Live Discussion with Thomas Pletzinger, March 26 12PM
New “Conversations from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop” Featured on Big Ten Network
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
UI Patient Voice Project Helps Tap into Creative Strength
Veterans invited to free UI Midwest Writers Workshop
Launch of eXchanges Winter Issue
Poets & Writers Magazine Ranks Iowa #1
Book Reviews: Glück, Kidder, Westlake
Winners of the 2009 Iowa Short-Fiction Awards
Meet the IWP: Ge Fei
UI Libraries Host the ‘Iowa City Book Festival’ July 18
T.C. Boyle Interviewed in Wag’s Review
Marilynne Robinson Wins Orange Prize
‘Elevenses’ Literary Hour Opens the Iowa Summer Writing Festival to the Public
91st Meridian’s New Issue Online
‘The Examined Life’ Conference Focuses on Creative Writing in Medical Education
UNESCO Gala Event at the Englert Theater, April 7
“Conversations from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop” Premieres on Big Ten Network
Iowa Summer Writing Festival 2009 Registration Now Open
‘Pulitzer Town’ Timeline Highlights Iowa City’s Prize Recipients
Workshop Graduate Featured on ‘Be Remarkable’
Marilynne Robinson’s ‘Gilead’ Listed Among President Obama’s Favorite Books
John Updike, legendary novelist and Pulitzer Prize winner, Dies at 76
NY Times Book Review: Unsworth’s “Land of Marvels”
UNESCO City of Literature Photo Gallery Now Online
Alarcon Wins PEN Literary Prize for Fiction
UNESCO designates Iowa City as the world’s third City of Literature
Interactive World Map Features IWP Writers
Review: Ethan Canin’s “America America”
Review: Nam Le’s first collection ‘The Boat’
Workshop Authors Named 2008 Guggenheim Fellows
The Patient Voice Project Awarded Major Project Grant
UI Press Announces Winners of 2008 Iowa Short Fiction Awards
Kate Christensen Wins 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award
eXchanges Winter Issue “Black and White” Released
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
Formal Application Seeks to Designate Iowa City as UNESCO City of Literature
Iowa Writers’ Workshop Affiliated Authors Robert Hass and Denis Johnson Win National Book Awards
William H. Gass Accepts Truman Capote Award
“A Thousand Years of Good Prayers” Wins San Sebastian Best Picture
Daniel Alarcón and Bret Anthony Johnston in New York Times Magazine
Sarah Braunstein wins 2007 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award
Review of Ehud Havazelet’s new work “Bearing the Body”
UI Doctors Practice Creativity as Part of Writing Group
Denis Johnson’s “Tree of Smoke” in the New York Times Book Review
Nathan Englander on the Iowa Writers’ Workshop
UI’s Literary Tradition Helps Iowa City Become “Best in the Midwest”
Roberto Ampuero Awarded China-Chile Prize

Podcasts:
Marcos M. Villatoro: “Finding Inspiration from the Work Itself”
Lon Otto: “Avoiding Literary Thin Ice”
Hope Edelman: “The Law and Ethics of Writing About Real People”
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:
Iowa Review Reading, 11/13/06

Past Events:
Dori Butler, Katherine House and Wendy Henrichs, 12/11/11
Spanish Literary Recital reading, 10/14/11
Paul Engle Award Ceremony, 10/12/11
Paul Ingram Book Club, 10/12/11
Paul Engle Essay Contest Winners, 10/11/11
Joseph Dobrian reading, 10/07/11
Lawrence Dorr reading, 9/30/11
Delia Ray reading, 9/17/11
Cate Kennedy reading, 9/13/11
Ellen Baker reading, 9/12/11
Iowa Review reading, 8/25/11
Madeline McDonnell and Andrea Rexilius reading, 7/28/11
The Eleventh Hour: Mary Allen—The Slow-Developing Picture: Writing a Family Memoir, 7/28/11
Melanie Benjamin reading, 7/27/11
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
Anne Shaw and Traci Brimhall reading, 7/22/11
Donald Ray Pollock reading, 7/21/11
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
Thomas Fox Averill reading, 7/18/11
The Eleventh Hour: Eula Biss—Research and the Personal Essay, 7/18/11
Edith Pearlman reading, 7/14/11
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
John Dalton reading, 7/12/11
The Eleventh Hour: Venise Berry—Clarity and Depth, 7/12/11
Simon Van Booy reading, 7/11/11
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
Ann Joslin Williams reading, 6/24/11
Kurt Michael Friese reading, 6/24/11
Dean Bakopoulos reading, 6/23/11
The Eleventh Hour: Peter Trachtenberg—Apocalyptic Lit, 6/23/11
The Eleventh Hour: Elizabeth Robinson—How to Submit to Literary Periodicals, 6/21/11
Tim Schaffert reading, 6/20/11
Christine Sneed reading, 6/17/11
Denise Low and Kathryn Kysar reading, 6/16/11
Johan Harstad reading, 6/15/11
The Writer as Public Figure, 6/11/11
Keynote Address: “The Workshop as Phenomenon,” Marilynne Robinson, 6/09/11
Paul’s Book Club, 6/08/11
Patricia Albers reading, 6/06/11
Tayari Jones reading, 6/02/11
John Sayles reading, 6/01/11
Community Stories Writing Workshop at The Iowa City Shelter House reading, 5/26/11
Carol Scott-Conner reading, 5/20/11
Erik Larson reading, 5/18/11
Anne Ylvisaker reading, 5/15/11
Paul’s Book Club, 5/11/11
Rebecca Rasmussen reading, 5/10/11
Older Americans Month reading, 5/06/11
Francisco Goldman reading, 5/04/11
PEN World Voices Festival, 5/02/11
Earthwords reading, 4/30/11
“City of Lit” Iowa Authors Event, 4/27/11
Ann Packer reading, 4/25/11
Kate Kasten reading, 4/20/11
Elizabeth Stuckey-French reading, 4/18/11
Lynne Jonell reading, 4/09/11
Alan Heathcock reading, 3/26/11
Paul’s Book Club, 2/25/11
Joseph O’Connor reading, 2/14/11
John Reimringer reading, 2/10/11
Meghan Daum reading, 2/09/11
Kevin Brockmeier reading, 2/02/11
Joseph Skibell reading, 1/31/11
The Wapsipinicon Almanac reading, 1/21/11
Stuart Dybek reading, 12/02/10
Melissa Delbridge reading, 11/30/10
Tom Franklin reading, 11/17/10
Simon Van Booy reading, 11/16/10
Nathan Englander reading, 11/15/10
Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall reading, 11/15/10
David Winner reading, 11/10/10
Eileen Myles reading, 11/02/10
Mona Simpson reading, 10/20/10
Antonya Nelson reading, 10/11/10
Adam Golaski and John Cotter reading, 10/07/10
Yiyun Li reading, 10/04/10
Lan Samantha Chang reading, 9/30/10
Steven Polansky reading, 9/28/10
Mary Helen Stefaniak reading, 9/27/10
Robert Hellenga reading, 9/15/10
Susanna Daniel reading, 9/13/10
Charles Todd reading, 9/02/10
Kira Henehan reading, 9/01/10
Iowa Review Reading, 8/30/10
Elevenses: Faculty Reading, 7/30/10
Elevenses: BK Loren & Sarah Saffian, 7/28/10
Elevenses: Hope Edelman, 7/27/10
Michelle Hoover reading, 7/26/10
Elevenses: Kelly Dwyer, 7/26/10
Zachary Michael Jack reading, 7/25/10
Dr. James Levine reading, 7/24/10