Highlights

Highlighted piece from International Writing Program Director Christopher Merrill on preserving truth-telling

Friday, January 27, 2023
https://michaeljudge.substack.com/p/christopher-merrill-tell-it-slantnotes?utm_source=direct&r=3hmty&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Congratulations to Iowa Writers' Workshop grad Brandon Taylor for this National Book Foundation prize for his wonderful debut, "Real Life"!

Friday, January 27, 2023
https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-books-and-literature-brandon-taylor-china-e705497c49f2dcb36271686feb6f544c

International Writing Program 2022 Spring Residency alum Shehan Karunatilaka longlisted for the Booker Prize!

Wednesday, July 27, 2022
https://now.uiowa.edu/2022/07/international-writing-program-resident-longlisted-booker-prize

Sallie Fullerton, an Iowa Workshop alum, won a 2022-23 Fulbright Study/Research grant in Creative Writing to Canada!

Tuesday, July 12, 2022
https://international.uiowa.edu/news/2022/04/ui-student-sallie-fullerton-awarded-fulbright-canada

UI Visiting Professor Hanif Abdurraquib's A LITTLE DEVIL IN AMERICA won a 2022 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction

Monday, January 24, 2022
https://lithub.com/here-are-the-winners-of-the-2022-andrew-carnegie-medal-for-excellence/

Congratulations to Jane Wong, Ann Patchett, Joy Williams, Michelle Gil-Montero, Kelsi Vanada, and Lisa Wells, on the longlists for PEN America's 2022 Literary Awards

Monday, January 24, 2022
https://pen.org/literary-awards/2022-pen-america-longlists/

Congratulations to UI professors Melissa Febos and Donika Kelly, finalists for National Book Critics Circle Awards!

Monday, January 24, 2022
https://www.bookcritics.org/2022/01/20/announcing-the-finalists-for-the-national-book-critics-circle-awards/

NWP faculty Melissa Febos' BODY WORK gets a starred review in Publishers Weekly! Says, “This is a wonder.”

Tuesday, December 7, 2021
https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781646220854

Congratulations to Elizabeth McCracken, longlisted for the National Book Award!

Tuesday, October 5, 2021
https://www.nationalbook.org/people/elizabeth-mccracken/

Daniel Alarcón, Iowa Writers' Workshop alum, named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow!

Tuesday, October 5, 2021
https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-2021/daniel-alarcon

Congratulations to Maggie Shipstead! Her novel Great Circle is on the shortlist for the 2021 Booker Prize!

Friday, September 17, 2021
https://thebookerprizes.com/the-final-six-novels

An article about translating Amanda Gorman’s work in the Washington Post with University of Iowa Translation MFA Director Aron Aji

Thursday, July 22, 2021
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/book-translations-gorman-controversy/2021/03/24/8ea3223e-8cd5-11eb-9423-04079921c915_story.html
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