Program News
Iowa alumni win 2026 Pulitzer Prizes for memoir, fiction
Wednesday, May 6, 2026
Yiyun Li (MFA '05) and Daniel Kraus take top honors; two other UI graduates were named finalists, including Scott Anderson (MFA 1993)
Hajar Hussaini winner of a 2026 Whiting Award in Poetry
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate Hajar Hussaini one of ten recipients of the 2026 Whiting Award, prestigious literary award for emerging writers
Suji Kwock Kim, Lucy Ives, & Bret Anthony Johnston, named 2026 Guggenheim Fellows
Tuesday, April 14, 2026
Guggenheim Fellows this year include three Workshop alumni: Suji Kwock Kim in Poetry, and Lucy Ives and Bret Anthony Johnston in Fiction.
Iowa Writers Revisit Their Origin Stories in Sad Me of the Past Podcast
Friday, October 17, 2025
Andrea Brady receives 2025 Truman Capote Award
Wednesday, October 8, 2025
The prestigious prize is the largest annual cash award for English-language literary criticism and will be awarded to poet and Professor of Poetry at Queen Mary University of London, Andrea Brady.
