Fiction

Articles:
2010 Iowa Summer Writing Festival Now Accepting Registrations
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
From the VWU Archive: “Tort’s Bitter Marriage”
Francine Prose Reviews Jim Crace’s ‘Pesthouse’
Kurt Vonnegut, 1922 - 2007
At the Iowa Writers’ Workshop: Kiran Desai & Richard Kenney
Iowa Writers’ Workshop Alumni in ‘Bookforum’
Two Events with Charles Baxter
Rebecca Johns Finalist for Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award
Francine Prose New President of PEN American Center
Granta’s ‘Best Young American Novelists’
Tonight: James Salter Reading
New Issue of ‘91st Meridian’ Online
Philip Roth Wins the PEN/Faulkner Award
NEA Awards IWP Alumnus Alexis Stamatis’ ‘American Fugue’
Martin Roper Interview (Part One)
To Do: ‘Returns’ and Writers’ Workshop Faculty Reading
Daniel Alarcón Webcast
Two Conversations with Tony Eprile
Recommended:  Dashiell Hammett’s ‘Red Harvest’
Nobel Lecture by Orhan Pamuk, ‘My Father’s Suitcase’
Recommended: Gwendolyn Brooks’ ‘Maud Martha’
Author Spotlight: Heidi Julavits
Orhan Pamuk Wins 2006 Nobel Prize In Literature
Recommended: J.-K. Huysmans
Johnson County Reads: T.C. Boyle

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
Lisa Hamilton reading, 3/10/10

Past Events:
John McNally reading, 3/09/10
Leslie Jamieson reading, 3/04/10
Sabrina Orah Mark and Malena Watrous reading, 3/02/10
Geoffrey Becker reading, 2/19/10
Jeffrey Copeland reading, 2/16/10
27th Annual Presidential Lecture: Professor Marilynne Robinson, 2/14/10
Wells Tower reading, 2/12/10
Lucy Silag reading, 2/11/10
Joshua Ferris reading, 2/02/10
Tim Fay and the Wapsipinicon Almanac reading, 1/29/10
Tim Johnstone reading, 1/27/10
Daniyal Mueenuddin reading, 1/21/10
Michael J. Rosen and Stan Fellows reading, 12/19/09
Dori Butler and Tess Weaver reading, 12/05/09
Philip Graham reading, 11/19/09
Spanish and Portuguese Graduate Student reading, 11/13/09
David Wroblewski reading, 11/06/09
Patrick Irelan reading, 11/03/09
Stephen Kuusisto and Cheeni Rao: Naked Lunch at 50 reading, 11/02/09
Michele Huneven reading, 10/30/09
Who’s for Dinner Anthology, 10/23/09
Heather Gudenkauf reading, 10/23/09
Mary Caponegro reading, 10/21/09
Larry Sutin reading, 10/19/09
Cornelia Nixon reading, 10/13/09
IWP/Writers’ Workshop reading, 10/11/09
Small Octopus of Death Anthology, 9/25/09
Dan Chaon reading, 9/23/09
Kyle Beachy reading, 9/21/09
Nicholas Meyer reading, 9/14/09
Fflur Dafydd reading, 9/09/09
An Iowa Review Reading & Reception Celebrating David Hamilton, 9/03/09
Benjamin Nugent reading, 9/02/09
Maryann Lesert reading, 7/29/09
Peter Carlson reading, 7/27/09
Iowa City Book Festival, 7/18/09
J.C. Hallman reading, 7/17/09
Nora Labiner reading, 7/15/09
David Rhodes reading, 7/14/09
Man Martin reading, 7/09/09
Stephen Lovely reading, 7/07/09
Cheeni Rao reading, 7/06/09
Shannon Olson & Morgan Grayce Willow reading, 6/20/09
Simon Van Booy reading, 6/19/09
Binnie Kirshenbaum reading, 6/17/09
J. Robert Lennon reading, 6/16/09
Karen Essex reading, 6/15/09
Mahbod Seraji reading, 6/12/09
Andre Dubus III reading, 6/09/09
Janet Burroway reading, 6/05/09
Dori Butler and Sarah Prineas reading, 5/14/09
Undergraduate Creative Writing Track reading, 5/06/09
Austin Ratner reading, 5/05/09
Jane Hamilton reading, 4/23/09
Margot Livesey Q & A, 4/23/09
Margot Livesey reading, 4/22/09
Earthwords reading, 4/22/09
Sugi Ganeshananthan reading, 4/07/09
Edmund White, Charlie D’Ambrosio, Andrew Milward reading, 4/04/09
Forklift: Ohio/Anthology reading, 4/03/09
Anthology Reading: Anthology Because of Dogs, 3/27/09
Matthew Pearl reading, 3/26/09
Anthology Reading Series, 3/07/09
Keith Donohue reading, 3/06/09
Alice Sebold lecture, 3/04/09
Abraham Verghese reading, 3/04/09
Yiyun Li reading, 3/03/09
Paul Harding reading, 2/18/09
Stephen Lovely reading, 2/12/09
Andrew Porter reading, 2/10/09
Adam Gopnik lecture, 2/05/09
Charles Bock reading, 2/03/09
Wapsipinicon Almanac reading, 1/30/09
Jonathan Ames reading, 12/10/08
Andre Dubus III reading, 12/05/08
Festival of Expression: an open performance event, 12/04/08
Ethan Canin reading, 11/17/08
Amy Bloom reading, 11/13/08
Jan Brett reading, 11/12/08
Brian Falkner reading, 11/08/08
ICPL Panel: Images of America, 11/07/08
Jonathan Ames reading, 11/05/08
Marilynne Robinson reading, 11/03/08
Francine Prose reading, 10/30/08
Doug Dorst reading, 10/29/08
International Writing Program Friday Reading: Open World, 10/24/08
Allison Amend reading, 10/23/08
Steve Sherrill reading, 10/22/08
Drake Hokanson reading, 10/22/08
Amy Shearn reading, 10/20/08
Mary Swander reading, 10/17/08
Michael Cunningham reading, 10/15/08
John McNally reading, 10/14/08
Tom Piazza reading, 10/13/08
Kimball Smith reading, 10/10/08
Karl Iagnemma reading, 10/10/08
Molly McNett reading, 10/08/08
WSWU session: ‘Communicating Science in Writing’, 10/08/08
Porter Shreve reading, 10/07/08
Curtis Sittenfeld reading, 9/29/08