Alumni Updates

Steven Willis standing outside Prairie Lights

Writers' Workshop Alumni

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

Before the Mango Ripens
Afabwaje Kurian
_{September 24, 2024 | Fiction}

The Goner School
Jessica Laser
_{September 27, 2024 | Poetry}

Small Rain
Garth Greenwell
_{September 3, 2024 | Fiction}

Terminal Maladies
Okwudili Nebeolisa

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Friday, April 17, 2026

Saturday afternoon! April 18 at 4pm in the Frank Conroy Reading Room at Glenn Schaeffer Library/Dey House, join us for a reading and Q & A with Robyn Schiff events.uiowa.edu/event/37408

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Friday, April 17, 2026

Sunday afternoon! April 19 at 4pm in Prairie Lights bookstore, Margaret LeMay will read from her new poetry chapbook, 'sample.spring' events.uiowa.edu/event/37045

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Friday, April 17, 2026

Congratulations to Rupsa Dey! shortlisted for the 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for, "Fighting Elsewhere" https://commonwealthfoundation.com/short-story-prize/

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Friday, April 17, 2026

Congratulations to the 2026 Whiting Award Winners, including Hajar Hussaini in poetry! https://www.whiting.org/writers/awards/current-winners

Congratulations to all the 2026 Guggenheim Fellows, including Suji Kwock Kim in Poetry, and Lucy Ives and Bret Anthony Johnston in Fiction! https://writersworkshop.uiowa.edu/news/2026/04/suji-kwock-kim-lucy-ives-bret-anthony-johnston-named-2026-guggenheim-fellows

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Friday, April 10, 2026

Tonight! April 10 at 8 p.m. in the Frank Conroy Reading Room at Glenn Schaeffer Library/Dey House, please join the Workshop for a reading with Alice Sola Kim events.uiowa.edu/event/37351