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News, Publications, and Awards
Garth Greenwell wins 2025 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Jenny George, Daniel Khalastchi and Jerald Walker are finalists for 2025 PEN Literary Awards Jamel Brinkley and Charles D'Ambrosio awarded Academy of Arts and Letters awards Jamel Brinkley wins 2024 Maya Angelou Book Award Juan Felipe Herrera awarded 2024 MacArthur Genius Grant Ruthvika Rao shortlisted for the Center For Fiction First Novel Prize Elizabeth Willis and m.s. RedCherries longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award in Poetry Tony Tulathimutte longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award in Fiction
The Latest Alumni Updates
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Monday, March 9, 2026
In memory of Workshop graduate, Jeremy Kryt, who passed away last October https://everloved.com/life-of/jeremy-kryt/obituary/
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Monday, March 9, 2026
Short fiction by Gary Duehr, "Emergency," via 'The Write Launch' https://thewritelaunch.com/2026/02/emergency/
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Monday, March 9, 2026
Fiction by Jeneé Skinner, "The Death Spa," from the Fall 2025 issue of 'Shenandoah' https://www.shenandoahliterary.org/volume-75-number-1/the-death-spa/
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Monday, March 9, 2026
Fiction by Joel Worford, "Don't Touch," in 'Blackbird' online journal blackbird.vcu.edu/dont-touch/
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Monday, March 9, 2026
"A Glutton for Duration" Devon Walker-Figueroa discusses eros, eternity, and her new collection ‘Lazarus Species’ with LARB’s poetry editor Elizabeth Metzger https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/devon-walker-figueroa-lazarus-species-interview-elizabeth-metzger/
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Monday, March 9, 2026
Poetry by Rebecca Boyle, "I Try Not to Die Every Chance I Get" | 'New Ohio Review' https://newohioreview.org/2026/02/24/i-try-not-to-die-every-chance-i-get/
Alumni News
Iowa Writers Revisit Their Origin Stories in Sad Me of the Past Podcast
Friday, October 17, 2025
Iowa Writers’ Workshop student, alumna receive grants from James Patterson to finish books
Thursday, September 11, 2025
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