Program News
Nicholas Boggs receives 2026 Truman Capote Award from Writers' Workshop
Thursday, October 8, 2026
Nicholas Boggs, a writer and assistant professor of English and creative writing at Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, New York, has been selected as the 2026 recipient of the Truman Capote Literary Trust Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin.
Iowa Writers’ Workshop alumna named finalist for National Book Award
Thursday, October 8, 2026
Poet Brenda Hillman, who earned an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 1976, is a 2026 finalist for the prestigious National Book Award.
Matthew Neill Null helps students find a distinctive voice
Thursday, October 1, 2026
The Iowa Writers’ Workshop alumnus and associate professor brings a unique approach to fiction and a commitment to helping students develop their own artistic voices.
Author Marilynne Robinson Looks Back on Her Iowa Influence
Tuesday, September 29, 2026
A writing life is not a ‘pipe dream’
Thursday, September 17, 2026
Tony Tulathimutte went from an unhappy career in Silicon Valley to the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Now the acclaimed writer is helping University of Iowa students envision their own paths forward.
Marilynne Robinson honored with Distinguished Alumni Award
Monday, August 31, 2026
A Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and one of the most influential figures in the history of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Robinson shaped a generation of writers over her 25-year tenure as the F. Wendell Miller Professor of English and Creative Writing.