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  • NEA Fellows 2020

    Six Workshop Alumni Awarded 2020 NEA Literature Fellowships

    January 16, 2020

    Congratulations to Workshop alumni Renée Branum, Danielle Valore Evans, Lance Olsen, Frances de Pontes Peebles, Anjali Sachdeva, and Maggie Shipstead. They were among the thirty-six writers granted a 2020 Literature Fellowship in Prose from the National Endowment for the Arts. The NEA Literature Fellowships program offers $25,000 grants in prose and poetry to published creative writers that enable the recipients to set aside time for writing, research, travel and general career advancement.

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  • New book covers, 2019

    New Workshop Alumni Books in 2019

    December 02, 2019

    If you are an alumnus of the program who published this year, make sure to email us the news! And for everyone else interested in viewing some of this year's excellent new poetry, fiction, and nonfiction titles, follow the link to the Workshop alumni publications page. Later this month we will post the beginnings of the 2020 list. https://writersworkshop.uiowa.edu/publications  

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  • Brent Hayes Edwards

    Brent Hayes Edwards receives 2019 Truman Capote Award

    October 09, 2019

    The Truman Capote Award Ceremony will take place at 4 p.m. Oct. 16 in the Old Capitol Senate Chamber. The event will feature remarks by Brent Hayes Edwards and a reception in the Old Capitol Museum. Both events are open to the public. Brent Hayes Edwards won the 2019 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin for his book, Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination, released by Harvard University Press in 2017.

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  • D.B. Weiss and David Benioff | HBO.com

    Workshop alumnus, D.B. Weiss' co-created television adaptation of 'Game of Thrones' nominated in a record-32 Emmy Award categories

    July 16, 2019

    Workshop alumnus D.B. Weiss (MFA, 1998) is co-creator of the record-shattering HBO television series, Game of Thrones, which was based on the bestselling book series, A Song of Ice and Fire, by George R.R. Martin. The show with its creators, cast and crew has been nominated for a record 32 Emmy Awards for 2019.

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  • Joy Harjo

    Librarian of Congress Names Joy Harjo the Nation's 23rd Poet Laureate

    June 19, 2019

    Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden today announced the appointment of Joy Harjo, Iowa Writers’ Workshop alumna, as the nation’s 23rd Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2019-2020. Harjo will take up her duties in the fall, opening the Library’s annual literary season on Sept. 19 with a reading of her work in the Coolidge Auditorium. Harjo is the first Native American poet to serve in the position – she is an enrolled member of the Muscogee Creek Nation. She succeeds Tracy K. Smith, who served two terms as laureate.

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