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‘Permission to dream’ Writers’ Workshop student named Soros fellow

May 23, 2018

Natalia Reyes, an MFA student in the world-renowned Iowa Writers’ Workshop, has received a 2018 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans. The fellowship will allow Reyes to focus entirely on her writing while at Iowa. She is the second Soros fellow in the Writers’ Workshop to receive the prestigious award, joining 2017 fellow Sanjena Sathian.
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Andrew Sean Greer wins the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

April 16, 2018

Former Workshop visiting faculty member Andrew Sean Greer has won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, for his novel, Less, published in July of 2017 by the Lee Boudreaux Books imprint of Little, Brown and Company.
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Bennett Sims awarded 2018-2019 Rome Prize

April 12, 2018

Writers’ Workshop alumnus and novelist Bennett Sims (MFA 2012) has been awarded the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize for Literature, a gift of the Drue Heinz Trust.
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Meet 5 Writers’ Workshop students who first came to the UI as teens

April 10, 2018

From Iowa Now: Five writers in the Iowa Writers’ Workshop remember Iowa City as high school students
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2018 Guggenheim Fellowships to Jennifer Haigh and Srikanth Reddy

April 06, 2018

Workshop alumni Jennifer Haigh (for fiction) and Srikanth Reddy (for poetry) are among the 173 scholars, artists, and scientists awarded fellowships this year from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
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Live from Prairie Lights: Andrew Sean Greer

Wednesday, June 20, 2018 - 7:00pm

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Live from Prairie Lights: Ian Stansel and Sarah Strickley

Friday, June 22, 2018 - 7:00pm

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Live from Prairie Lights: Anjali Sachdeva

Monday, June 25, 2018 - 7:00pm

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