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:
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:

Upcoming Events:
Kevin Gonzalez reading, 5/15/08

Past Events:
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
ICPL Panel: Images of America, 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
IWP Cinematheque Presents Screening, 10/21/07
International Writing Program/Writers’ Workshop Reading, 10/21/07
International Writing Program Friday Reading, 10/19/07
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
Tomaž Šalamun Q & A, 10/12/07
Film and Discussion: “The Devil Came On Horseback”, 10/11/07
Scattered Seeds: Writers from China and the Chinese Diaspora, 10/11/07
Publishing Books in Translation, 10/11/07
Panel: Creating and Promoting African Literature, 10/11/07
Tony Hoagland and Jonathan Ames reading, 10/10/07
Global Play Performance: “All The World’s A Page: The Global Play Project”, 10/10/07
Spanish-Language Reading, 10/10/07
Panel: The Business of Arabic-Language Literature, 10/10/07
Russian-Language Reading, 10/09/07
Discussion: The World’s Voice In Our Ear: Influences of World Literature on Writing and Writer, 10/09/07
ILT Panel: Reading the Other, 10/08/07
Panel: World Lit Net: Writing in the Age of Global Communiation, 10/08/07
International Writing Films: “The Magic Gloves” (2003, Argentina), 10/07/07
Daniel Weissbort, Matvei Yankelevich, Michael Judd reading, 10/07/07
Writer’s House Open House, 9/27/07
Ashley Butler with Sasa Stanisic and Peter Kimani, 9/20/07
ICPL Panel Discussion: ‘The Most Important Book on My Bookshelf’, 9/14/07
International Writing Program Reading, 9/07/07
Radio: IWP Writers on KSUI’s “Know the Score”, 9/07/07
International Writing Program Reading, 9/02/07
IWP Interviews with The Exchange, 8/31/07
David Hamilton Reading, 8/29/07
Alexis Levitin, “Translating the Music of Poetry”, 4/11/07
Bi Feiyu & Lou Ye Reading, 10/27/06
Writing and Its Mis/Fortunes: How I Write Where I Write, 10/27/06
James Tate, 10/26/06
Doris Kareva & Véronique Tadjo Reading, 10/22/06
Román Antopolsky & Emmanuel Laugier, 10/20/06
Writing With (and Against) National Identity, 10/20/06
Prairie Lights Reading: Laksmi Pamuntjak, Nathalie Stephens, Nico Alvarado-Greenwood, 10/15/06
Global Express, 10/14/06
Denis Johnson Reading, 10/13/06
Shambaugh House Reading: Fadhil Thamir & Partaw Naderi, 10/13/06
IWP Panel Discussion: Why I Write What I Write and How I Write It, 10/13/06
Prairie Lights Reading: Mimi Khalvati, Nukila Amal, and Kiki Petrosino, 10/08/06
U Moe Hein Poetry Reading, 10/06/06
IWP Panel Discussion: Writing for Two & Three Dimensions, 10/06/06