Program News

Portrait of Sonny Mehta

Iowa Writers' Workshop announces Sonny Mehta Fellowships in Creative Writing

Monday, June 21, 2021
Iowa Writers' Workshop establishes the Sonny Mehta Fellowships in Creative Writing.
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Chang named Berlin Prize fellow

Wednesday, May 12, 2021
Iowa Writers' Workshop graduate Samantha Chang named 2021 Berlin Prize fellow.

Seven writers with Iowa ties earn prestigious literary honors

Wednesday, April 21, 2021
Seven writers with ties to the University of Iowa Writers Workshop earn honors from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Stephen Kuusisto, Andrea Cohen, Sandra Lim,Tracie Morris, Alexander Chee, 2021 Guggenheim Fellows

2021 Guggenheim Fellowships Awarded to Alexander Chee, Andrea Cohen, Stephen Kuusisto, Sandra Lim and Tracie Morris

Thursday, April 8, 2021
Five writers with ties to the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop earned 2021 Guggenheim Fellowships.
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Toby Altman Awarded 2021 NEA Literature Fellowship in Poetry

Thursday, October 8, 2020
Iowa Writers' Workshop graduate Toby Altman wins the 2021 NEA Literature Fellowship in Poetry.
Fred Moten

Fred Moten receives 2020 Truman Capote Award

Thursday, October 8, 2020
Fred Moten won the 2020 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin for his book, Black and Blur, released by Duke University Press in 2017.