Iowa Writers' Workshop

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:
Aeronwy Thomas and Peter Thabit Jones to Present a Dylan Thomas Tribute
Workshop Authors Named 2008 Guggenheim Fellows
The Patient Voice Project Awarded Major Project Grant
Kate Christensen Wins 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award
Workshop Faculty and Alumni Finalists for L.A. Times Book Prize
Robert Hass in Tel Aviv
Writers’ Workshop Director Samantha Chang Discusses the Iowa Caucus in NY Times
Iowa Writers’ Workshop Affiliated Authors Robert Hass and Denis Johnson Win National Book Awards
William H. Gass Accepts Truman Capote Award
Alice Notley Receives the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
“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
Ann Patchett and Elizabeth McCracken on NPR’s “Morning Edition”
UI Museum of Art Hosts Writer-in-Residence Program
Review of Ehud Havazelet’s new work “Bearing the Body”
Denis Johnson’s “Tree of Smoke” in the New York Times Book Review
Video Podcast: Jordan Stempleman
Nathan Englander on the Iowa Writers’ Workshop
UI’s Literary Tradition Helps Iowa City Become “Best in the Midwest”
Sandra Lim Poem in ‘Verse Daily’
Francine Prose Reviews Jim Crace’s ‘Pesthouse’
William H. Gass Wins 2007 Truman Capote Award For ‘A Temple Of Texts’
Remembering Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut, 1922 - 2007
Listen: Sam Witt at Prairie Lights Books
Listen: Jaswinder Bolina, Matthew Zapruder, and Matthew Rohrer at Prairie Lights
At the Iowa Writers’ Workshop: Kiran Desai & Richard Kenney
Joshua Kryah Reads from ‘Glean’
Iowa Writers’ Workshop Alumni in ‘Bookforum’
Two Events with Charles Baxter
Rebecca Johns Finalist for Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award
“That Glorious Time of Old,” by Mary Swander
Francine Prose New President of PEN American Center
‘Sentiment and the Sentimental’ in W.D. Snodgrass’s Poetry
Granta’s ‘Best Young American Novelists’
Tonight: James Salter Reading
Philip Roth Wins the PEN/Faulkner Award
Iowa Writers’ Workshop Alumnae in ‘Boston Review’
To Do: ‘Returns’ and Writers’ Workshop Faculty Reading
Daniel Alarcón Webcast
Interview with Naomi Wallace
Two Conversations with Tony Eprile
W.D. Snodgrass and Lia Purpura Finalists for NBCC Awards
Iowa City Book Sleuth Helped Fill The Shelves Of UI Writers’ Workshop Alumni Library
Recommended:  Dashiell Hammett’s ‘Red Harvest’
Recommended: Gwendolyn Brooks’ ‘Maud Martha’
Author Spotlight: Heidi Julavits
Three Writers’ Workshop Alumni Receive Whiting Awards
NY Times Names Trussoni’s Memoir to “10 Best Books of 2006”

Upcoming Events:
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Past Events:
Jeffrey Eugenides reading, 5/07/08
Michael Chabon reading, 5/04/08
Dean Young reading, 5/02/08
Paul Muldoon reading, 5/01/08
Paul Muldoon Q & A, 5/01/08
Martha Grimes reading and talk, 4/30/08
Marvin Bell reading and discussion, 4/24/08
Edward Hirsch reading, 4/23/08
Film screening: “Purple State of Mind”, 4/22/08
Best New Poets 2007 reading, 4/22/08
John Marks reading, 4/21/08
John Marks talk, 4/21/08
Ann Patchett reading, 4/15/08
Louise Glück reading, 4/09/08
Louise Gluck After-Reading Party, 4/09/08
Joyelle McSweeney & Johannas Goransson reading, 3/03/08
Alan Drew reading, 2/28/08
Elena Passarello with Jeff Porter, 2/21/08
After-Reading Party for Samantha Chang and Matthea Harvey, 2/20/08
Mary Relindes Ellis reading, 2/07/08
Talk Art Cabaret, 12/12/07
Marilynne Robinson on Housekeeping, 12/06/07
Colleen Kinder with Chris Offutt, 11/08/07
Max Winter & Michael Dumanis, 11/08/07
Rebecca Gradinger, agent from Janklow & Nesbit Publishers, 11/08/07
Donald Revell Q & A, 11/08/07
Donald Revell reading, 11/07/07
Spring Ulmer reading, 10/30/07
Between the Lines Conference: Dean Young, 10/29/07
Truman Capote Award Ceremony for WIlliam H. Gass, 10/25/07
Applying to MFA Writing Programs, 10/23/07
Applying to MFA Writing Programs, 10/23/07
International Writing Program/Writers’ Workshop Reading, 10/21/07
Edward P. Jones reading, 10/19/07
Edward P. Jones Q & A, 10/19/07
Marvin Bell reading, 10/17/07
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
ILT Panel: Reading the Other, 10/08/07
Panel: World Lit Net: Writing in the Age of Global Communiation, 10/08/07
Daniel Weissbort, Matvei Yankelevich, Michael Judd reading, 10/07/07
Tony Hoagland lecture, 10/05/07
Jorie Graham reading, 10/04/07
Jorie Graham Q & A, 10/04/07
Art Share reading, 9/30/07
Tessa Rumsey and Anthony Swofford reading, 9/28/07
Writer’s House Open House, 9/27/07
Joshua Furst reading, 9/21/07
Cathy Park Hong and Jenny Mueller reading, 9/20/07
Jud Ladhi, Agent from LJK Literary Management Talk and Q&A, 9/17/07
“Shall We Dance?”—Iowa Writer’s Workshop Fall Welcome Party, 9/08/07
Talk Art Cabaret, 9/05/07
John D. Thompson Reading, 7/24/07
Douglas Goetsch Reading, 7/16/07
Mark Levine Reading, 6/26/07
Granta’s Best Young American Novelists, 4/30/07
Geoffrey O’Brien & Ben Lerner Reading, 4/26/07
T.K. Kenyon Reading, 4/24/07
Lyn Hejinian Reading, 4/20/07
Lyn Hejinian Q&A, 4/20/07
Nicholas Pesquès & Cole Swensen Bi-Lingual Poetry Reading, 4/18/07
Cole Swensen and Dean Young Reading, 4/17/07
Tony Eprile, “On Observation: The Art of Seeing”, 4/13/07
‘Best New Poets 2006’ Reading, 4/12/07
Sam Witt Reading, 4/05/07
Richard Kenney Q&A, 3/29/07
Richard Kenney Reading, 3/28/07
Kiran Desai Q&A, 3/28/07
Kiran Desai Reading, 3/27/07
Joshua Kryah Reading, 3/23/07
James Galvin Lecture: “Poetic Architecture and Rhythm in ‘The Sound and the Fury‘“, 3/23/07
Charles Baxter Q&A, 3/23/07
Charles Baxter Reading, 3/22/07
James Salter Reading, 3/05/07
In Chicago: Jane Smiley and Scott Turow, 2/26/07
‘Know the Score Live,” with Jane Smiley, 2/25/07
Stephen Kuusisto Reading, 2/23/07
James Galvin & Tony Eprile Reading, 2/16/07
Anthony Swofford Reading, 1/24/07
Brenda Hillman & Robert Hass, 12/06/06
Robert Hass, 12/01/06
Ashley Capps Reading, 11/30/06
Nicholas Delbanco, “Writing by Imitating the Great Masters”, 11/28/06
Nicholas Delbanco Reading, 11/27/06
Kevin Moffett Reading, 11/16/06
Robin Hemley Reading, 11/15/06
S.L. Wisenberg, 11/13/06
Lan Samantha Chang & Doug Bauer Reading, 11/10/06
Lisa Lubasch Reading, 11/08/06
Francine Prose Reading, 11/06/06
James Tate, 10/26/06
Opening Ceremony of Glenn Schaeffer Library & Archives, 10/20/06
Michael Chabon Lecture, 10/18/06
Denis Johnson Reading, 10/13/06
Prairie Lights Reading: Mimi Khalvati, Nukila Amal, and Kiki Petrosino, 10/08/06