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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, January 23, 2026
Saturday! January 24 at 8 p.m., Carmen Maria Machado, author of the bestselling memoir, 'In the Dream House', and the award-winning short story collection, 'Her Body and Other Parties', will read in the Frank Conroy Reading Room at Dey House/Glenn Schaeffer Library events.uiowa.edu/event/35648
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Friday, January 23, 2026
The Fosse Lecture 2026 to be delivered by Marilynne Robinson
https://www.regjeringen.no/en/whats-new/the-fosse-lecture-2026-to-be-delivered-by-marilynne-robinson/id3146465/ | https://www.nb.no/fosse/lecture-and-prize/
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Friday, January 16, 2026
Spoken Word Open Mic & Jazz Jam at The Black Angel restaurant in Iowa City on January 20, 8-10 PM https://iowacitypoetry.com/events/spoken-word-open-mic-jazz-jam
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Friday, January 16, 2026
Donna Stonecipher teaching Wednesdays February 2- March 2 in Berlin [Germany] https://www.thereaderberlin.com/advanced-poetry-workshop/
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Friday, January 16, 2026
Olivia Parkes teaching Wednesdays January 14-February 25 in Berlin [Germany] https://www.thereaderberlin.com/the-fiction-workshop-6/
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Friday, January 16, 2026
Rich Levy hosted conversation, "When The World Fractures: Voices from Isolation," at Jaipur Literature Festival International in Houston, TX last month https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZmgrxxefvs
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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