Program News
Yiyun Li awarded the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award
Monday, March 2, 2020
Yiyun Li (MFA, 2005) accepted the 2020 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award at a March 2 ceremony in New York, NY for her 2019 novel, Where Reasons End.
Yaa Gyasi receives Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Literature
Monday, February 3, 2020
Yaa Gyasi is one of three recipients this year who has received a Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Literature, which includes a cash prize of $50,000.
Six Writers' Workshop alumni awarded 2020 Literature Fellowships
Thursday, January 16, 2020
The six Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni were among the 36 writers granted a 2020 Literature Fellowship in Prose from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Brent Hayes Edwards receives 2019 Truman Capote Award
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
Brent Hayes Edwards won the 2019 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin for his book, Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination, released by Harvard University Press.
Librarian of Congress Names Joy Harjo the Nation's 23rd Poet Laureate
Wednesday, June 19, 2019
Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden today announced the appointment of Joy Harjo, Iowa Writers’ Workshop alumna, as the nation’s 23rd Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2019-2020.
Robert Hass receives 2018 Truman Capote Award
Monday, October 8, 2018
Former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass won the 2018 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin for his book. The award is administered by the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa.