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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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Friday, February 13, 2026
Tonight! 2/13 at 8 pm in the Frank Conroy Reading Room of Glenn Schaeffer Library/Dey House, visiting faculty members Jack Saebyok Jung and James F. Thomas will read from their work events.uiowa.edu/event/36068
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Wednesday, February 11, 2026
Thursday! Feb. 12 at 8pm in the Frank Conroy Reading Room at Glenn Schaeffer Library/Dey House, Jennifer duBois will read from her work. Her latest novel, 'The Last Language', was a finalist for the Writers’ League of Texas Book Award & was named a Vox Best Book of 2023 events.uiowa.edu/event/36064
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Wednesday, February 11, 2026
Thursday! Feb. 12 at 8pm in the Frank Conroy Reading Room at Glenn Schaeffer Library/Dey House, Jennifer duBois will read from her work. Her latest novel, 'The Last Language', was a finalist for the Writers’ League of Texas Book Award & was named a Vox Best Book of 2023 events.uiowa.edu/event/36064
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Monday, February 9, 2026
Teacher Vanessa Engel and 6th grade students from Lenihan Intermediate School in Marshalltown's Extended Learning Program visited last week. They conducted research for a National History Day project, visiting the UI Libraries and a workshop with Matthew Neill Null https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1HDwoVJvSm/
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Monday, February 9, 2026
We had a fun visit with middle school students and their amazing teacher doing National History Day research and visiting a class taught by Matthew Neill Null at the Writers' Workshop!
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Thursday, February 5, 2026
Tonight! Feb. 5 at 8 p.m. in the Frank Conroy Reading Room at Glenn Schaeffer Library/Dey House, Matthew Neill Null will read from his work. His new novel, 'Floodgate', is forthcoming in May events.uiowa.edu/event/35649
Alumni News
Tony Tulathimutte Receives the Inaugural 2026 Jack Galef Literary Arts Award
Thursday, February 12, 2026
The writer Tony Tulathimutte has received the inaugural Jack Galef Literary Arts Award. The prize is administered by the Iowa Writers’ Workshop on behalf of the estate of Jack Galef, an alumnus of the Workshop.
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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