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Alumni
- "Conversations from the Iowa Writers' Workshop" Premieres on Big Ten Network
- New Flannery O'Connor Graduate Fellowships Provide Aid for Writers' Workshop Students
- T.C. Boyle Interviewed in Wag's Review
- UI Translation Alum Thow Wins Fulbright Research Grant
- Workshop Alum Rao's Novel 'In Hanuman's Hands' Reviewed
"Live from Prairie Lights" Audio Archive
- Iowa Public Radio Donates 'Live from Prairie Lights' Recordings to UI Libraries
International Writing Program Archive
- From the VWU Archive: "Poets Against the War"
Dramatic Writing
- "A Thousand Years of Good Prayers" Wins San Sebastian Best Picture
- Etgar Keret Wins Camera d'Or at Cannes
- Interview with Naomi Wallace
- UI Playwright Wins At National MFA Playwrights Festival
Faculty
- "Conversations from the Iowa Writers' Workshop" Premieres on Big Ten Network
- Live Discussion: UI Nonfiction's Robin Hemley Online Chat
- Marilynne Robinson Wins Orange Prize
- Review: UI Nonfiction Director Hemley's 'Do Over'
- Robin Hemley's Article 'The Great Book Blockade of 2009' Sparks International Attention
- UI Poetry Class Blog Reviews Readings in Iowa City
- UI Press Releases Two Volumes of Poetry Scholarship
- Workshop Alum Herrera Wins National Book Critics Circle Award
Fiction
- "A Thousand Years of Good Prayers" Wins San Sebastian Best Picture
- "Conversations from the Iowa Writers' Workshop" Premieres on Big Ten Network
- ‘Pulitzer Town’ Timeline Highlights Iowa City’s Prize Recipients
- 'Elevenses' Literary Hour Opens the Iowa Summer Writing Festival to the Public
- 'The Examined Life' Conference Focuses on Creative Writing in Medical Education
- 91st Meridian's New Issue Online
- Alarcon Wins PEN Literary Prize for Fiction
- At the Iowa Writers' Workshop: Kiran Desai & Richard Kenney
- Author Spotlight: Heidi Julavits
- Bi Feiyu's 'The Moon Opera' selected for Independent Foreign Fiction Prize long-list
- Daniel Alarcón and Bret Anthony Johnston in New York Times Magazine
- Daniel Alarcón Webcast
- Denis Johnson's "Tree of Smoke" in the New York Times Book Review
- eXchanges Winter Issue “Black and White” Released
- Formal Application Seeks to Designate Iowa City as UNESCO City of Literature
- Francine Prose New President of PEN American Center
- Francine Prose Reviews Jim Crace's 'Pesthouse'
- From the VWU Archive: "Tort's Bitter Marriage"
- Granta's 'Best Young American Novelists'
- Interactive World Map Features IWP Writers
- Iowa Summer Writing Festival 2009 Registration Now Open
- Iowa Writers' Workshop Affiliated Authors Robert Hass and Denis Johnson Win National Book Awards
- Iowa Writers' Workshop Alumni in 'Bookforum'
- IWP Alumnus Khaled Khalifa on short-list for 'International Prize for Arabic Fiction'
- John Updike, legendary novelist and Pulitzer Prize winner, Dies at 76
- Johnson County Reads: T.C. Boyle
- Kate Christensen Wins 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award
- Kurt Vonnegut, 1922 - 2007
- Marilynne Robinson Wins Orange Prize
- Marilynne Robinson's 'Gilead' Listed Among President Obama's Favorite Books
- Martin Roper Interview (Part One)
- Nathan Englander on the Iowa Writers' Workshop
- NEA Awards IWP Alumnus Alexis Stamatis' 'American Fugue'
- New Issue of '91st Meridian' Online
- Nobel Lecture by Orhan Pamuk, 'My Father's Suitcase'
- NY Times Book Review: Unsworth's "Land of Marvels"
- Orhan Pamuk Wins 2006 Nobel Prize In Literature
- Philip Roth Wins the PEN/Faulkner Award
- Rebecca Johns Finalist for Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award
- Recommended: Dashiell Hammett's 'Red Harvest'
- Recommended: Gwendolyn Brooks' 'Maud Martha'
- Recommended: J.-K. Huysmans
- Review of Ehud Havazelet's new work "Bearing the Body"
- Review: Ethan Canin's "America America"
- Review: Nam Le's first collection 'The Boat'
- Roberto Ampuero Awarded China-Chile Prize
- Sarah Braunstein wins 2007 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award
- T.C. Boyle Interviewed in Wag's Review
- The Patient Voice Project Awarded Major Project Grant
- To Do: 'Returns' and Writers' Workshop Faculty Reading
- Tonight: James Salter Reading
- Two Conversations with Tony Eprile
- Two Events with Charles Baxter
- UI Doctors Practice Creativity as Part of Writing Group
- UI Press Announces Winners of 2008 Iowa Short Fiction Awards
- UI's Literary Tradition Helps Iowa City Become "Best in the Midwest"
- UNESCO City of Literature Photo Gallery Now Online
- UNESCO designates Iowa City as the world’s third City of Literature
- UNESCO Gala Event at the Englert Theater, April 7
- William H. Gass Accepts Truman Capote Award
- Workshop Authors Named 2008 Guggenheim Fellows
- Workshop Graduate Featured on 'Be Remarkable'
Journalism
- ‘Pulitzer Town’ Timeline Highlights Iowa City’s Prize Recipients
- eXchanges Winter Issue “Black and White” Released
- Formal Application Seeks to Designate Iowa City as UNESCO City of Literature
- Writers' Workshop Director Samantha Chang Discusses the Iowa Caucus in NY Times
New Media
- "Conversations from the Iowa Writers' Workshop" Premieres on Big Ten Network
- ‘Pulitzer Town’ Timeline Highlights Iowa City’s Prize Recipients
- 'The Iowa Review Web' Releases New Issue: "Instruments and Playable Texts"
- Iowa City Senior Center Television Online
- IWP Alum Anat Pick Featured on 'Hard to Say' Podcast
- UI Graduate Diablo Cody ("Juno") Wins Oscar for Best Screenplay
- UI Poetry Class Blog Reviews Readings in Iowa City
- UNESCO City of Literature Photo Gallery Now Online
Nonfiction
- "Ariadne," by Janani Sreenivasan
- "My Father in White, Above the Royal Blue," by Doug Hesse
- "That Glorious Time of Old," by Mary Swander
- "The Best Museum Benches in the Country" & Other Podcasts
- ‘Pulitzer Town’ Timeline Highlights Iowa City’s Prize Recipients
- 'Dream Not of Other Worlds,' by Huston Diehl
- 'Elevenses' Literary Hour Opens the Iowa Summer Writing Festival to the Public
- 'The Examined Life' Conference Focuses on Creative Writing in Medical Education
- 91st Meridian's New Issue Online
- Call for Proposals: 2007 NonfictioNow Conference
- eXchanges Winter Issue “Black and White” Released
- Formal Application Seeks to Designate Iowa City as UNESCO City of Literature
- Iowa Summer Writing Festival 2009 Registration Now Open
- Listen: Ryan Van Meter and Vershawn Ashanti Young
- Live Discussion: UI Nonfiction's Robin Hemley Online Chat
- NY Times Names Trussoni's Memoir to "10 Best Books of 2006"
- Pico Iyer Interview: "Every writer is an outsider on the subject he is writing about"
- Rebecca Sheir (NWP, '06) on Public Radio This Weekend
- Review: UI Nonfiction Director Hemley's 'Do Over'
- Robin Hemley's Article 'The Great Book Blockade of 2009' Sparks International Attention
- The Patient Voice Project Awarded Major Project Grant
- To Do: "Translating the Music of Poetry," 'Best New Poets,' and Tony Eprile on the Art of Seeing
- UI Museum of Art Hosts Writer-in-Residence Program
- UNESCO designates Iowa City as the world’s third City of Literature
- UNESCO Gala Event at the Englert Theater, April 7
- W.D. Snodgrass and Lia Purpura Finalists for NBCC Awards
- Workshop alum Michael Judge's op-ed 'After the Flood'
- Workshop Alum Rao's Novel 'In Hanuman's Hands' Reviewed
- Writing Acts as Therapy, UI Researcher Finds
Podcasts
- IWP Alum Anat Pick Featured on 'Hard to Say' Podcast
Poetry
- "Conversations from the Iowa Writers' Workshop" Premieres on Big Ten Network
- "In a Minute there is Time for a Hundred Indecisions"
- "Murmur," by John Casteen
- "Spoon and Tree," by Sara London
- "The Yard's Reason," by Jan Weissmiller
- ‘Pulitzer Town’ Timeline Highlights Iowa City’s Prize Recipients
- 'Elevenses' Literary Hour Opens the Iowa Summer Writing Festival to the Public
- 'Sentiment and the Sentimental' in W.D. Snodgrass's Poetry
- 'The Examined Life' Conference Focuses on Creative Writing in Medical Education
- 2008 Iowa Poetry Prize Winner Zach Savich on BlogTalkRadio
- 91st Meridian's New Issue Online
- Aeronwy Thomas and Peter Thabit Jones to Present a Dylan Thomas Tribute
- Alice Notley Receives the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
- At the Iowa Writers' Workshop: Kiran Desai & Richard Kenney
- Charles Simic named 2007 Poet Laureate
- eXchanges Winter Issue “Black and White” Released
- Formal Application Seeks to Designate Iowa City as UNESCO City of Literature
- From the VWU Archive: "Poets Against the War"
- From the VWU Archive: Eleni Sikelianos Reads from 'The California Poem'
- Grace Paley, Writer and Activist, Dies at Age 84
- Iowa Summer Writing Festival 2009 Registration Now Open
- Iowa Writers' Workshop Affiliated Authors Robert Hass and Denis Johnson Win National Book Awards
- Iowa Writers' Workshop Alumnae in 'Boston Review'
- Iowa Writers' Workshop Alumni in 'Bookforum'
- IWP Alum Anat Pick Featured on 'Hard to Say' Podcast
- IWP Alum Clifton Wins Irish Poetry Award
- IWP Alumni Oscar Hahn Wins "Premio del Consejo Nacional del Libro" Prize
- Joshua Kryah Reads from 'Glean'
- Listen: Ben Lerner and Geoffrey O'Brien at Prairie Lights Books
- Listen: Dobby Gibson, Amanda Nadelberg, and Matthew Hart at Prairie Lights
- Listen: Jaswinder Bolina, Matthew Zapruder, and Matthew Rohrer at Prairie Lights
- Listen: Ryan Van Meter and Vershawn Ashanti Young
- Listen: Sam Witt at Prairie Lights Books
- Mark Doty Wins National Book Award
- Middle East Reading and Lecture Tour Presents to Saudi Literati
- New Issue of '91st Meridian' Online
- Oscar Hahn
- Poetry Class for Older Adults
- Readings and Reviews: 'Poems From Guantánamo: The Detainees Speak'
- Review: Mimi Khalvati's newest collection 'The Meanest Flower'
- Robert Hass in Tel Aviv
- Sandra Lim Poem in 'Verse Daily'
- The Patient Voice Project Awarded Major Project Grant
- To Do: "Translating the Music of Poetry," 'Best New Poets,' and Tony Eprile on the Art of Seeing
- To Do: 'Returns' and Writers' Workshop Faculty Reading
- Tomaž Šalamun Wins Prestigious 'Struga Poetry Evenings' Award
- UI Doctors Practice Creativity as Part of Writing Group
- UI Poetry Class Blog Reviews Readings in Iowa City
- UI Press Anthology 'Primary Care' Reviewed
- UI Press Releases Iowa Poetry Prize Winners
- UI Press Releases Two Volumes of Poetry Scholarship
- UI Press To Publish Detainee Poetry Collection
- UI's Literary Tradition Helps Iowa City Become "Best in the Midwest"
- UNESCO City of Literature Photo Gallery Now Online
- UNESCO designates Iowa City as the world’s third City of Literature
- UNESCO Gala Event at the Englert Theater, April 7
- Video Podcast: Jordan Stempleman
- W.D. Snodgrass and Lia Purpura Finalists for NBCC Awards
- W.D. Snodgrass, Poet and Pulitzer Prize winner, Dies at Age 83
- Workshop Alum Herrera Wins National Book Critics Circle Award
- Workshop Authors Named 2008 Guggenheim Fellows
- Workshop Faculty and Alumni Finalists for L.A. Times Book Prize
Recommended Reading
- Recommended: Dashiell Hammett's 'Red Harvest'
- Recommended: Gwendolyn Brooks' 'Maud Martha'
- Recommended: J.-K. Huysmans
Rhetoric
- Listen: Ryan Van Meter and Vershawn Ashanti Young
Science/Medical Writing
- 'The Examined Life' Conference Focuses on Creative Writing in Medical Education
- Writing Acts as Therapy, UI Researcher Finds
Teaching & Learning
- Martin Roper Interview (Part One)
- Martin Roper Interview (Part Two)
- RSVP by April 17th for 'Examined Life' Events
The Experimental Wing
- 'The Iowa Review Web' Releases New Issue: "Instruments and Playable Texts"
- Iowa City Senior Center Television Online
Theater
- To Do: 'Returns' and Writers' Workshop Faculty Reading
Translation
- "In a Minute there is Time for a Hundred Indecisions"
- "Muse India": Literary e-journal
- Autumn Hill Books Receives Grant to Translate Croatian Author
- eXchanges Winter Issue “Black and White” Released
- Formal Application Seeks to Designate Iowa City as UNESCO City of Literature
- NEA Awards IWP Alumnus Alexis Stamatis' 'American Fugue'
- New Issue of '91st Meridian' Online
- To Do: "Translating the Music of Poetry," 'Best New Poets,' and Tony Eprile on the Art of Seeing
- UI Translation Alum Thow Wins Fulbright Research Grant
- UNESCO City of Literature Photo Gallery Now Online
- UNESCO designates Iowa City as the world’s third City of Literature
- UNESCO Gala Event at the Englert Theater, April 7
UI Museum of Art
- UI Museum of Art Hosts Writer-in-Residence Program
UITV
- Iowa City Senior Center Television Online
UNESCO
- Op-ed: "What writers say about our City of Literature"
- Rep. Loebsack Honors Iowa City Being Named a City of Literature on U.S. House Floor
- UNESCO City of Literature Photo Gallery Now Online
- UNESCO designates Iowa City as the world’s third City of Literature
- UNESCO Gala Event at the Englert Theater, April 7
VWU
- "Iowa Vlogs" on 'The Daily Palette'
- Bergman's 'Winter Light' with Live Music
- Joshua Kryah Reads from 'Glean'
- The 'Wing' and 'ICSCTV Online!'

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