"Iowa cultivates not only tall corn, but also towering writers, poet laureates and Pulitzer Prize winners. A roster of Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni and faculty reads like a roster of Who's Who in American Letters."

In this Denver Post story about writers workshops, the University of Iowa is lauded for becoming "the nation's first creative-writing program and provided the prototype for hundreds of creative-writing programs in existence today". The article describes Iowa's part in the evolution of the creative writing M.F.A, and the creation of the "writers workshop", a term first coined at the University of Iowa in 1941.

Read the Denver Post article 'Yes, you, too, can be a writer' here.