, Director. Phone: (319) 335-0472.
For more information, visit http://at-lamp.its.uiowa.edu/virtualwu/index.php/main/fellows/.
The Writers' House, ("111 Church Street"), is home to the University of Iowa Writing Fellows. The Writing Fellows are four recent graduates of the University of Iowa's MFA programs in Writing and Translation, who have been given living and writing space for a year following their graduation. In addition to advancing their own writing projects, they are charged with contributing to the writing environment for UI undergraduates, graduates, and members of the writing community in Iowa City. Readings for undergraduates and graduates take place here, as well as writing classes and symposiums.
, Director. Phone: 319.351.5692 .
For more information, visit http://sanctuarypub.qwestoffice.net/music.html.
The Sanctuary Pub is a warm, downtown restaurant and music venue that hosts area musicians and artists as well as the MIowa Writers' Workshop 'Talk Art' Series.
, Director. Phone: (319) 351-9529.
For more information, visit http://www.icmill.com/.
Over the years The Mill Restaurant has become the center of an Americana music community in Iowa City that has achieved national and international fame. The Mill also became known for great pizza and sandwiches. They are home for many great area musicians and artists as well as the Iowa Writers' Workshop 'Talk Art' Series.
, Director. Phone: pspaceone@gmail.com.
For more information, visit http://publicspaceone.wordpress.com/.
Public Space ONE Gallery is a progressive non-profit art space run by artists/volunteers. Located in the basement of an eight-story building, in downtown Iowa City, IA at 129 E. Washington, the space will feature a monthly show rotation of local, national, and international artists. Openings will be held on the first Friday of every month. In addition the space, Public Space ONE ‘at large’, is used as a performance space, music venue, and reading room.
, Director. Phone: (319)356-5000.
For more information, visit http://www.icgov.org/.
Offering big-city amenities along with small-town hospitality, Iowa City has it all. Nestled in the heart of the Midwest in east central Iowa in Johnson County, it has long served as a locus for culture, education, variety and fun.
, Director. Phone: 319-248-1700.
For more information, visit http://www.coralville.org/.
, Director. Phone: (800) 891-3482.
For more information, visit http://easterniowatourism.org/calendar.asp.
Eastern Iowa invites you to follow our highways and venture off the beaten path to see the beauty, sample the fun, and enjoy it all in Eastern Iowa. As you travel one of our Scenic Byways or Historic Routes you’ll see the beauty of meandering streams, the mighty Mississippi River, rolling hills, towering limestone bluffs, patchwork countrysides, unexpected wildlife, and quaint villages. From big city excitement to small town hospitality you will get a flavor and enjoy it all! We look forward to your visit and we know you will want to visit again!
, Director. Phone: (800) 283-6592.
For more information, visit http://www.iowacitycoralville.org/.
The Iowa City/Coralville Area CVB advances the economic vitality and quality of life for residents and visitors as Iowa’s premier destination.
, Director. Phone: 319-356-6000.
For more information, visit http://www.johnson-county.com/.
Johnson County is currently composed of 11 cities: Iowa City, Coralville, Lone Tree, Tiffin, Oxford, North Liberty, Shueyville, University Heights, Hills, Swisher, Solon and a subdivision of West Branch. Johnson County is home to more than 100,000 Iowans and a wide variety of businesses, including farming, retail, manufacturing and academics. The county government's responsibilities range from roads and bridges to human services, law enforcement, parks and natural resources. Iowa City is the seat of Johnson County and, as such, many of the county government offices are located there.
, Director. Phone: (319) 337-9637.
For more information, visit http://www.iowacityarea.com/.
Whether young or young at heart, you will find our community (including Coralville, Iowa City, North Liberty and Solon) a vibrant place to live, play and work. We offer many cultural opportunities, energizing Big Ten athletics, diverse and unique shopping venues, and exceptional restaurants, festivals and concerts. Excellent schools, comfortable neighborhoods and a highly educated population place our community on many "best places to live" listings. The Iowa City Area Chamber of Commerce is here to assist you!
, Director. Phone: 319-248-1850.
For more information, visit http://www.coralvillepubliclibrary.org/.
The library was established through a grass-roots effort and initially maintained by volunteers donating their time and expertise. Within the first year, the library was serving 350 families and rapidly outgrowing its designated space in the corner of the community room in the City Hall basement. The Coralville Public Library has maintained that pattern of growth over the years. In January of 1967, the Library Collection (then 5,733 books and other materials) was moved, again by volunteers, to its new location at 806 5th Street. Initially, the library shared these quarters with the Recreation Department and the Heritage Museum Foundation. Over the next few years, the Recreation Department moved to a new building as did the Heritage Museum Foundation, and the Library eventually grew into the entire one-story space at 806 5th Street.
, Director. Phone: (319) 339-0401 .
For more information, visit http://www.uptownbills.org.
The Small Mall is the home to four microbusinesses managed and operated by persons with disabilities: Uptown Bill's Ice Cream & Coffee Bar, Bill's BookMart, The Mad Hatter's Music & Meeting Room and Mr. Ed's SuperGraphics.
, Director. Phone: (319) 354-3534.
For more information, visit http://www.defunctbooks.com.
, Director. Phone: 319-338-3077.
For more information, visit http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=murphy+brookfield+iowa+city&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=43.393645,71.367188&ie=UTF8&ll=41.664032,-91.530147&spn=0.02007,0.034847&t=h&z=15&iwloc=A.
Murphy-Brookfield Books has been in business in Iowa City, Iowa since 1980, specializing in scholarly used books in the Humanities. Areas of interest are Philosophy, Art, Women's Studies, Poetry, Literary Criticism, History, University Press. Owners are Jane Murphy and Mark Brookfield.
Nialle Sylvan, Director. Phone: (319) 337-2996.
For more information, visit http://www.thehauntedbookshop.com/.
The Haunted Bookshop is Iowa City's oldest used book store. Established in 1978, the store moved in January 2009 to its current location in Northside Iowa City. They carry over 40,000 titles in more than 80 different sections ranging from Iowa interest to poetry, children's books to sociology, travelogues to history and more. They provide a variety of other services as well, including book searches, gift recommendation, space for book groups and community organizations to meet, collection valuation, writing consultation, packing and shipping, sewing advice, tea if the kettle's on and Latin translation.
, Director. Phone: 319.356.5200.
For more information, visit http://www.icpl.org.
The Iowa City Public Library was established in 1896 and has served the community from a downtown location ever since. The Iowa City Public Library encourages and sustains a literate, informed, and diverse community, is committed to equal accessibility, intellectual freedom, and life-long learning, and provides a community gathering place for meetings and programming for the benefit of the public.
, Director. Phone: 319-337-2681.
For more information, visit http://www.prairielightsbooks.com.
Prairie Lights sprang to life in May 1978 as a small, intimate bookstore offering titles by the newer voices of Raymond Carver and Alice Munro and by established authors like Eudora Welty and George Orwell. By 1982 Prairie Lights transplanted itself from South Linn St. to South Dubuque and has gradually spread to three and a half floors, the half being an 1100 square foot coffee house located in the same space that the local literary society met throughout the 1930's, hosting writers Carl Sandburg, Robert Frost, Sherwood Anderson, Langston Hughes, e e cummings and others.
Robyn Schiff, Director. Phone: 319-335-0454.
For more information, visit http://english.uiowa.edu/undergrad/writing/index.html.
The hub of the Writing Track is a cluster of intimate Writers’ Seminars that will give students the opportunity to creatively engage the relationship between reading and writing and to explore questions of craft, literary traditions, and aesthetics in a manner that is both inspiring and rigorous. Students will learn how to read literature with a writer’s gaze through discussions and workshops.
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For more information, visit http://www.uiowa.edu/~socialwk/.
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For more information, visit http://continuetolearn.uiowa.edu/.
William Casey, Publisher. Jason Brummond, Director. Phone: (319) 335-6063.
For more information, visit www.dailyiowan.com/ditv.
DITV is the television service provided by The Daily Iowan. Established in October 2005, it is jointly supported by The Daily Iowan and the UI School of Journalism and Mass Communication. DITV produces a 15-minute newscast during the academic year at 9:30 p.m. Sunday through Friday on UITV, Mediacom channel 17. DITV Webcasts are available around the clock at: http://www.dailyiowan.com/DITV.
William Casey, Publisher. Jason Brummond, Director. Phone: (319) 335-6063.
For more information, visit www.dailyiowan.com.
The Daily Iowan is an independent, 19,500-circulation daily paper serving Iowa City and the University of Iowa community. It has consistently won a number of collegiate journalism awards, including multiple National Pacemaker Awards, and is generally regarded as one of the finest student newspapers in the country. The Daily Iowan also runs its own television station, DITV. It features streaming video on the DI frontpage.
Kathryn Whitmore, Director. Phone: (310) 355-5434.
For more information, visit http://www.education.uiowa.edu/llc/program/index.html.
The program in Language, Literacy, and Culture (LLC) offers a Ph.D. that brings together scholarly traditions and contemporary theory in literacy and cultural studies. Course work provides both a broad background in relevant theoretic and research literature and opportunities to conduct original studies that explore the nature of literacy practices both in and out of school.
Mary Trachsel, Director. Phone: (319) 335-0178.
For more information, visit http://www.uiowa.edu/~rhetoric/index.html.
The Rhetoric Department offers courses that fulfill the General Education Program requirement in rhetoric and provides individual instruction in its Writing and Speaking Centers. It also offers other undergraduate courses and graduate seminars.
Thomas Lewis, Director. Phone: (319) 335-2244.
For more information, visit http://www.uiowa.edu/~spanport.
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese offers coursework in Spanish-language creative writing.
James Elmborg, Director. Phone: 319-335-5707.
For more information, visit www.slis.uiowa.edu.
The School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) offers a graduate-level program of professional and academic preparation for careers in libraries and information centers. Interim director James Elmborg manages the Virtual Writing University Archive, which began as a SLIS graduate student project. SLIS also provides technical and adminstrative support for the Virtual Writing University.
Maureen Robertson (Interim Director), Director. Phone: (319) 335-0330.
For more information, visit http://www.uiowa.edu/ccl/mfatranslation.shtml.
The MFA in Translation, originating in the Translation Workshop, is a degree program in Cinema and Comparative Literature that promotes creative performance and the study of languages, literature, criticism, and cultural history. The aim of the program is to encourage the practice of translation, and to bring about greater awareness of its tradition, as one of the primary means of cultural mediation.
, Director. Phone: .
For more information, visit http://www.uiowa.edu/%7Exchanges/index.htm.
exchanges is devoted to translations both into and out of the English language. The journal aims to foster cultural interchange and expand awareness of translation as a valid art form.
Natasa Durovica, Director. Phone: .
For more information, visit http://www.uiowa.edu/~iwp/91st/index.html.
A gathering point for members, past and present, of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, the 91st Meridian features creative and critical works in a variety of genres. For readers everywhere who are interested in the worlds of literature at all meridians.
John Nelson, Director. Phone: .
For more information, visit http://inpress.lib.uiowa.edu/poroi/poroi/.
Poroi is an online peer-reviewed journal for scholarship attuned to rhetoric in inquiry and culture. Poroi is sponsored by the Project on Rhetoric of Inquiry and is published electronically by the University of Iowa Libraries. Scholarly articles in Poroi emphasize rhetorical analysis and invention in all fields of learning, and they address interdisciplinary audiences.
David Hamilton, Director. Phone: .
For more information, visit http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/mainpages/current_issue.html.
One of the best-known and most highly respected literary reviews in the country, the Iowa Review has been publishing continuously for 36 years. The journal carries stories, poems, essays and reviews by both new and established writers. The Iowa Review also sponsors Iowa Writes.
Alan MacVey, Director. Phone: (319) 335-2700.
For more information, visit http://www.uiowa.edu/~theatre/index.html.
The University of Iowa Theatre Arts Department is one of the oldest and most respected theatre programs in the country. The department offers students the opportunity to earn an undergraduate BA degree, or an MFA degree with an emphasis in acting, directing, design, playwriting, dramaturgy or stage management.
Nancy Baker, Director. Phone: (319) 335-5299.
For more information, visit http://www.lib.uiowa.edu.
The University of Iowa Libraries is the largest library system in Iowa and the 14th largest among the nation’s research libraries. The Libraries' Digital Library Services, as well as Special Collections and University Archives play an important role in collecting, preserving, and digitizing the historical record of The Writing University.
Michael McBride, Director. Phone: (319) 335-5898.
For more information, visit http://www.its.uiowa.edu/tns/videoservices/uitv.htm.
University of Iowa Television (UITV) is a cable programming service available to cable television viewers on campus and in Iowa City, Cedar Rapids, Coralville, and surrounding communities.
Leslie Finer, Director. Phone: (319) 335-1618.
For more information, visit http://www.uiowa.edu/artsshare/.
Arts Share continues The University of Iowa's long tradition of sharing creative resources from the Division of Performing Arts (music, dance, theatre), the School of Art and Art History, and the Writers' Workshop. Our goal is to strengthen the arts in underserved areas, reaching out to provide access to life-enriching arts experiences throughout Iowa.
Joan Kjaer Kirkman, Director. Phone: (319) 335-5730.
For more information, visit http://www.broadcasting.uiowa.edu.
WSUI and KSUI are the public radio broadcasting services of the University of Iowa and Iowa Public Radio. WSUI and KSUI enrich the literary community with programs such as "Live from Praire Lights," "Talk of Iowa," and "Know the Score."
David Depew, Director. Phone: (319) 335-2753.
For more information, visit http://poroi.grad.uiowa.edu/.
The Project on Rhetoric of Inquiry is an interdisciplinary research and teaching program at the University of Iowa. Its purpose is to improve academic inquiry, argumentation, and writing in the arts, humanities, sciences, and professions, especially at the intersections between disciplines.
Matthew P. Brown, Director. Phone: (319) 335-0447.
For more information, visit http://www.uiowa.edu/~ctrbook/.
The Center for the Book is an innovative, interdisciplinary research and arts unit located within the University of Iowa Graduate College. The Center offers curricula in book technologies and book history, available to graduate and undergraduate students, as well as to the eastern Iowa community.
Holly Carver, Director. Phone: (319) 335-2000.
For more information, visit http://www.uiowapress.org.
Established in 1969, the University of Iowa Press publishes, poetry and short fiction, and works of creative nonfiction, as well as books that fill the needs of scholars and students throughout the world. The Press publishes the winners of the Iowa Short Fiction Award and the Iowa Poetry Prize, poetry anthologies, letters and diaries, biographies, memoirs, and regional history. As the only university press in the state, Iowa is also dedicated to preserving the literature, history, culture, wildlife, and natural areas of the Midwest.
Stephen Lovely, Director. Phone: (319) 335-4209.
For more information, visit http://www.uiowa.edu/~iyws.
At the Iowa Young Writers' Studio, 120 young writers from across the country come together every summer to share their work, practice craft, and improve their writing.
Jonathan Wilcox, Director. Phone: (319) 335-0454.
For more information, visit http://www.english.uiowa.edu.
Students in the English Department are actively involved in the processes of creating, interpreting, and publishing a variety of texts. They experiment with diverse styles and perspectives, working with materials that range from literary classics to contemporary film, from the Anglo-American canon to multicultural, postcolonial, and feminist expansions of that canon, from drama, poetry, and fiction to autobiography, electronic, and multimedia writing.
Martin Roper, Director. Phone: (319) 335-0353.
For more information, visit http://international.uiowa.edu/study-abroad/programs/crsprgdetail.asp?s=20081&rID=3&cID=63&pID=64&Crumb=123.
The University of Iowa Irish Writing Program offers participants the opportunity to study creative writing and Irish literature in the heart of Dublin.
Jon Winet, Director. Phone: (319) 335-3907.
For more information, visit http://www.uiowa.edu/~interart.
The Intermedia Area of The University of Iowa School of Art & Art History offers a 2 year MA/3 year MFA program that encourages interdisciplinary research and production in time-based media, experimental video, new media and installation.
Russell Valentino, Director. Phone: 319-335-2752.
For more information, visit http://poroi.grad.uiowa.edu.
The Project on Rhetoric of Inquiry (POROI) is an interdisciplinary program at the University of Iowa. Its mission is to explore how scholarship and professional discourses are conducted through argument and how paradigms of knowledge are sensitive to social-political contexts. POROI offers classes, seminars, workshops, and conferences. Together with the Graduate College, POROI offers an Interdisciplinary Graduate Certificate in Rhetoric of Inquiry to graduate students in any field.
Amy Margolis, Director. Phone: (319) 335-4160.
For more information, visit http://www.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu/iswfest/html/welcome/index.html.
The Iowa Summer Writing Festival consists of 136 different non-credit workshops, open to writers 21 years and older (no previous experience necessary). One-week and weekend sessions offered throughout June and July, in workshop format, in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, essay, and more.
Steven Ungar, Director. Phone: (319) 335-0330.
For more information, visit http://www.uiowa.edu/~ccl/.
The Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature offers individualized programs in the interdisciplinary study of literature and the study and production of film and audiovisual arts. It is the home of the country's oldest MFA program in Translation. The department offers offers the option of 2 undergraduate majors, the B.A. in Comparative Literature or the B.A. in Cinema, and graduate degrees in Film Studies, Comparative Literature, and Film and Video Production.
Art Borreca, Director. Phone: (319) 335-2700.
For more information, visit http://www.uiowa.edu/~theatre/programs/playwrighting/playwritinginfo.htm.
The Iowa Playwrights Workshop—The University of Iowa's MFA Program in Playwriting—is an intensive three-year program dedicated to educating playwrights for the professional theatre. The objective of the program is to train talented playwrights as writers and collaborative theatre artists who will lead the American theatre in the creation of new works and the training of future generations of writers and theatre artists.
Robin Hemley, Director. Phone: (319) 335-0440.
For more information, visit http://www.english.uiowa.edu/nonfiction/.
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.
Marc Armstrong, Director. Phone: (319) 335-3486.
For more information, visit http://www.uiowa.edu/jmc.
Established in 1924, the University of Iowa School of Journalism and Mass Communication has long been recognized as a leader in journalism education. The School of Journalism and Mass Communication undergraduate program prepares students for careers in journalism and mass communication. Journalistic writing is the core of the professional program; visual communication also is an important focus.
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.
Lan Samantha Chang, Director. Phone: (319) 335-0416.
For more information, visit http://www.uiowa.edu/~iww/.
The Iowa Writers' Workshop is a two-year residency program which culminates in the submission of a creative thesis (a novel, a collection of stories, or a book of poetry) and the awarding of a Master of Fine Arts degree. The University of Iowa Writers' Workshop was the first creative writing degree program in the United States and the model for contemporary writing programs.
Articles:
Poets & Writers Magazine Ranks Iowa #1
Second Life Readings Presented by the UI Grad College and IWP
UI Press Marks 150th Anniversary of ‘Leaves of Grass’ with Facsimile Edition
Live Discussions on the Writing University website
Announcing The Iowa Review Design Contest
New UI Press Anthology Traces Influence of Wallace Stevens
UI Center for the Book Professor Awarded 2009 MacArthur Genius Grant
Book Reviews: Glück, Kidder, Westlake
Tomaž Šalamun Wins Prestigious ‘Struga Poetry Evenings’ Award
Winners of the 2009 Iowa Short-Fiction Awards
Workshop Alum and NWP Candidate Highlighted in Anthology
Meet the IWP: Ge Fei
Meet the IWP: Alice Pung
Highlighted ISWF Staff: Amy Margolis and Caryl Pagel
POROI Releases Summer Journal, Volume 6.1
UI Unveils 30 Years of Interviews with International Writers
Valentino to succeed Hamilton as editor of ‘The Iowa Review’
UI Libraries Host the ‘Iowa City Book Festival’ July 18
T.C. Boyle Interviewed in Wag’s Review
Marilynne Robinson Wins Orange Prize
New Flannery O’Connor Graduate Fellowships Provide Aid for Writers’ Workshop Students
Iowa Public Radio Donates ‘Live from Prairie Lights’ Recordings to UI Libraries
Live Discussion: UI Nonfiction’s Robin Hemley Online Chat
‘Elevenses’ Literary Hour Opens the Iowa Summer Writing Festival to the Public
Workshop Alum Rao’s Novel ‘In Hanuman’s Hands’ Reviewed
Robin Hemley’s Article ‘The Great Book Blockade of 2009’ Sparks International Attention
UI Translation Alum Thow Wins Fulbright Research Grant
91st Meridian’s New Issue Online
Workshop Alum Herrera Wins National Book Critics Circle Award
UI Press Releases Two Volumes of Poetry Scholarship
‘The Examined Life’ Conference Focuses on Creative Writing in Medical Education
Review: UI Nonfiction Director Hemley’s ‘Do Over’
UI Poetry Class Blog Reviews Readings in Iowa City
UNESCO Gala Event at the Englert Theater, April 7
2008 Iowa Poetry Prize Winner Zach Savich on BlogTalkRadio
“Conversations from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop” Premieres on Big Ten Network
Iowa Summer Writing Festival 2009 Registration Now Open
IWP Alum Anat Pick Featured on ‘Hard to Say’ Podcast
Writing Acts as Therapy, UI Researcher Finds
‘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”
W.D. Snodgrass, Poet and Pulitzer Prize winner, Dies at Age 83
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
Mark Doty Wins National Book Award
Iowa Alumnus Davis Receives Hopkins Fellowship
Alarcon Wins PEN Literary Prize for Fiction
Nam Le Wins Dylan Thomas Prize
UNESCO City of Literature
UNESCO designates Iowa City as the world’s third City of Literature
Launch of eXchanges Fall Issue
IWP Alumnus Rapola Awarded Noma Prize
Two IWP Alumni Short-Listed for Man Asian Literature Award
Announcing the New Issue of The Iowa Review, Fall 2008
New Issue of POROI Journal Released
Interactive World Map Features IWP Writers
Robinson and Scibona Receive National Book Award Nomination
National Book Foundation Selects Workshop Alumni for “5 Under 35”
IWP Participants Join Poetry & Jazz in Pittsburgh
Robert Hass Awarded UI Honorary Degree
Sebastian Barry shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
Review: Linda Gregg’s “All of It Singing: Poems”
Events: Truman Capote Award Ceremony in the Old Capitol Senate Chamber
Iowa Writers’ Workshop Alumni Win First Book Poetry Awards
Ayurzana Gunaajav reading
IWP 40th Anniversary Celebration Archives
Introducing the Writers of the IWP
Walt Whitman Archive Receives NHPRC Grants
‘Between the Lines’ Middle-Eastern Residency Finds Haven in Chicago
Kathyrn Harrison reviews Natsuo Kirino in the New York Times Sunday Book Review
News from the International Writing Program: Alumni Awards
UI’s Peter Nazareth Remembers IWP alum Cyprian Ekwensi
‘The Iowa Review Web’ Releases New Issue: “Instruments and Playable Texts”
Autumn Hill’s ‘Anima Mundi’ Wins a 2008 Book of the Year Award
Review: Ethan Canin’s “America America”
Summer Writing Festival Resumes on UI Campus
UI’s Bowman House Harbors Displaced Departments
91st Meridian’s New Issue Highlights Non-Fiction
Workshop alum Michael Judge’s op-ed ‘After the Flood’
Update: The Iowa Summer Writing Festival will resume on July 6th
2008 Iowa Summer Writing Festival Begins
Review: Nam Le’s first collection ‘The Boat’
Stanley Award Winners Announced
“Wallace Stegner and the American West”: New York Times Book Review
Premiere of the Iowa New Play Festival
Middle East Reading and Lecture Tour Presents to Saudi Literati
Aeronwy Thomas and Peter Thabit Jones to Present a Dylan Thomas Tribute
Workshop Authors Named 2008 Guggenheim Fellows
IWP Alum Clifton Wins Irish Poetry Award
The Patient Voice Project Awarded Major Project Grant
Hass and Schultz Win Pulitzer Prizes
UI Press Announces Winners of 2008 Iowa Short Fiction Awards
Kate Christensen Wins 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award
UI Interim Provost Lopes issues statement on MFA theses submissions
Workshop Faculty and Alumni Finalists for L.A. Times Book Prize
Mary Jo Bang’s ‘Elegy’ wins 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award
Podcasts:
WU Podcast: Workshop/IWP Reading > Nkengasong, Eltayeb and Talone
Writing University Podcast: IWP Participants Raimo and Madzirov
WU Podcast: Marc Nieson—“Making Words Count”
Writing University Podcast: Mary Allen
David Bouchier: “The Word Diet - Avoiding Verbosity”
Marcos M. Villatoro: “Finding Inspiration from the Work Itself”
Katie Ford: “Ghost Forms: Using Traditional Form in Free Verse
Lon Otto: “Avoiding Literary Thin Ice”
Hope Edelman: “The Law and Ethics of Writing About Real People”
Carl H. Klaus: “Days into Daybooks, a Voice for All Seasons”
From the Archive: Mark Leidner, Véronique Tadjo, Doris Kareva
Marilyn Abildskov - “Leap: Imagination in Nonfiction”
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, 10/06/06
Gretel Ehrlich reading, 11/11/09
Past Events:
David Wroblewski reading, 11/06/09
Dora Malech reading, 11/05/09
IWP Cinemathèque, 11/04/09
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg reading, 11/04/09
Patrick Irelan reading, 11/03/09
Stephen Kuusisto and Cheeni Rao: Naked Lunch at 50 reading, 11/02/09
Literary Translation MFA Program reading, 11/02/09
Michele Huneven reading, 10/30/09
Second Life reading, 10/30/09
Hope Edelman reading, 10/29/09
Chris Martin and Ted Mathys reading, 10/28/09
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
Who’s for Dinner Anthology, 10/23/09
Heather Gudenkauf reading, 10/23/09
Mark Strand reading, 10/22/09
Mary Caponegro reading, 10/21/09
Tod Marshall reading, 10/20/09
Larry Sutin reading, 10/19/09
Ethan Gilsdof reading, 10/16/09
IWP Shambaugh House reading, 10/16/09
ICPL Panel: ‘Questions of Travel’, 10/16/09
Chris Forhan and Alesandra Lynch reading, 10/15/09
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
Cornelia Nixon reading, 10/13/09
Roger Thurow reading, 10/13/09
Eavan Boland reading, 10/12/09
IWP/Writers’ Workshop reading, 10/11/09
ICPL Panel: ‘1989-2009’, 10/09/09
Robert Dana reading, 10/08/09
Mark Grey reading, 10/06/09
Brian Teare reading, 10/05/09
Mary Jo Bang reading, 10/01/09
Michael Silverblatt, 10/01/09
Kate Greenstreet, Elizabeth Robinson and Colleen Lookinbill reading, 9/30/09
John McPhee reading, 9/29/09
Small Octopus of Death Anthology, 9/25/09
Dan Orr reading, 9/25/09
ICPL Panel: Translation/Writing Between Languages, 9/25/09
Jared Stanley and Jessica Savitz reading, 9/24/09
Cinematheque: “Namets!”, 9/23/09
Dan Chaon reading, 9/23/09
Amber Tamblyn reading, 9/22/09
Kyle Beachy reading, 9/21/09
IWP and Writers’ Workshop reading, 9/20/09
James Reston Jr. reading, 9/19/09
Floyd Skloot reading, 9/18/09
IWP Shambaugh House Reading, 9/18/09
POROI Rhetoric Seminar, 9/18/09
ICPL Panel: What’s in a Name?, 9/18/09
Kiki Petrosino & Jordan Stempleman reading, 9/17/09
Fflur Dafydd, Nerissa Campbel and Sarah Cram performance, 9/16/09
IWP Cinemathèque: Divine Intervention, 9/16/09
John D’Agata, James Galvin, Elizabeth McCracken & David Hamilton reading, 9/16/09
Open World reading, 9/15/09
Nicholas Meyer reading, 9/14/09
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
John Koethe reading, 9/10/09
Small Press and World Lit Roundtable, 9/10/09
IWP Cinemathèque: Caramel, 9/09/09
Fflur Dafydd reading, 9/09/09
Matt McCue reading, 9/08/09
Anthology Readings: “Becky and the Stove Anthology”, 9/04/09
ICPL Panel: Literature of Desire, 9/04/09
An Iowa Review Reading & Reception Celebrating David Hamilton, 9/03/09
Benjamin Nugent reading, 9/02/09
Proceed and Be Bold!: a documentary film on Amos Kennedy, 8/28/09
Robert Schultz reading, 8/11/09
Fifth Annual Printers’ Ball, 7/31/09
Maryann Lesert reading, 7/29/09
Peter Carlson reading, 7/27/09
Andrea Cohen reading, 7/23/09
Nick Reding reading, 7/22/09
Mary Swander reading, 7/21/09
Mary Gottschalk reading, 7/20/09
Iowa City Book Festival, 7/18/09
J.C. Hallman reading, 7/17/09
Todd Boss reading, 7/16/09
Nora Labiner reading, 7/15/09
David Rhodes reading, 7/14/09
Lorree Rackstraw reading, 7/13/09
Albert Goldbarth reading, 7/10/09
Man Martin reading, 7/09/09
Stephen Lovely reading, 7/07/09
Cheeni Rao reading, 7/06/09
Zachary Jack reading, 6/26/09
John Graber and Bruce Bond reading, 6/25/09
Robert Wachal reading, 6/23/09
Michael Dennis Browne reading, 6/22/09
Shannon Olson & Morgan Grayce Willow reading, 6/20/09
Simon Van Booy reading, 6/19/09
Gregg Rappleye reading, 6/18/09
Binnie Kirshenbaum reading, 6/17/09
J. Robert Lennon reading, 6/16/09
