Next week, the IWP will honor its 40th anniversary with a ten-day celebration including free readings, film screenings, a global playwriting collaboration, panel discussions, social events and an exhibition. The celebration will culminate with the Paul Engle Memorial Reading by influential Slovenian poet Tomaz Salamun, as well as the opening of the exhibit “Community of Writers: Creative Writing at the University of Iowa” in the Old Capitol Museum.

Since 1967, the University of Iowa International Writing Program (IWP) has supported cultural exchange by promoting intellectual interaction and global understanding, fighting for literary freedom, and celebrating the importance of writers everywhere.