Highlights

Mindy Kaling to Adapt Iowa Writers' Workshop alum Sanjena Sathian's Book "Gold Diggers" for TV.

Wednesday, June 2, 2021
https://magazine.foriowa.org/story.php?ed=true&storyid=2069

Director of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop Lan Samantha Chang has been named a 2021-22 Berlin Prize Fellow, awarded to scholars, writers, and artists who represent the highest standards of excellence in their field

Wednesday, May 12, 2021
https://now.uiowa.edu/2021/05/chang-named-berlin-prize-fellow

Director of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop Lan Samantha Chang has been named a 2021-22 Berlin Prize Fellow, awarded to scholars, writers, and artists who represent the highest standards of excellence in their field!

Wednesday, May 12, 2021
https://now.uiowa.edu/2021/05/chang-named-berlin-prize-fellow

Announcing a new issue of Exchanges: Journal of Literary Translation from the UI Translation MFA program! Check out their spring 2021 issue, "Without"

Tuesday, May 11, 2021
https://exchanges.uiowa.edu/issues/without/?fbclid=IwAR2f0Xcm4gTW0b-YC_CiwJZsUsgo-iRzAZ1ioI7EqfakIbkOlhcY8xe2svM

Nonfiction Writing Program alum Sarah Viren has been named a finalist for the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing for her harrowing account in the NYT of being sabotaged by a rival on the academic job market.

Tuesday, May 11, 2021
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/18/magazine/title-ix-sexual-harassment-accusations.html

The Program Era Project from UI English is the first computational investigation of the Iowa Writers' Workshop next door

Friday, April 23, 2021
https://clas.uiowa.edu/news/program-era-project-limning-depths-iowa-writers-workshops-literary-influence

The American Academy of Arts and Letters has honored five University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduates and a former visiting faculty member with its 2021 awards!

Thursday, April 22, 2021
https://now.uiowa.edu/2021/04/7-writers-iowa-ties-earn-prestigious-literary-honors

Congratulations to the 2021 Guggenheim Fellows, including those with Iowa connections: Sandra Lim, Stephen Kuusisto, Tracie Morris, Alexander Chee, and Tayari Jones!

Friday, April 9, 2021
https://www.gf.org/news/fellows-news/2021-guggenheim-fellowships-announced/

Congratulations to Iowa Writers' Workshop alum Shira Dentz, winner of the Eugene Paul Nassar Prize, for her new book, 'Sisyphusina'

Wednesday, April 7, 2021
https://hvwg.org/2021/03/sisyphusina-by-shira-dentz-wins-the-eugene-paul-nassar-prize/

International Writing Program alums Kwame Dawes and Pierre Joris among the 2021 PEN America Literary Awards Program career achievement award winners

Friday, April 2, 2021
https://pen.org/literary-awards/2021-pen-america-literary-awards-career-achievement-winners/

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

Tuesday, March 30, 2021
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/book-translations-gorman-controversy/2021/03/24/8ea3223e-8cd5-11eb-9423-04079921c915_story.html

Congratulations to Jerald Walker (UI English BA 1993), whose book How to Make a Slave and Other Essays was named a 2020 National Book Awards finalist!

Wednesday, March 24, 2021
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/the-2020-national-book-awards-finalists-are-a-strikingly-fresh-group/2020/10/05/a926ba8e-0676-11eb-a166-dc429b380d10_story.html
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