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  • 2019 Writers Guild Award

    Four Writers’ Workshop Alums win Writers Guild “Original Long Form” Award for 'Castle Rock'

    February 19, 2019

    Marc Bernardin, Scott Brown, Lila Byock, Mark Lafferty, Sam Shaw, Dustin Thomason, Gina Welch and Vinnie Wilhelm were honored by the Writers Guild of America when they won the Original Long Form award category for their work on Hulu’s Castle Rock. Lila Byock, Mark Lafferty, Sam Shaw, and Vinnie Wilhelm are all alumni of the Writers’ Workshop.

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  • Robert Hass

    Robert Hass receives 2018 Truman Capote Award

    October 08, 2018

    Former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass won the 2018 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin for his book, A Little Book on Form: An Exploration into the Formal Imagination of Poetry, released by HarperCollins Publishers in 2017.

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  • Justin Torres

    Debut novel from Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate finds success on big screen

    September 25, 2018

    Film adaptation of Justin Torres’s 2011 novel ‘We the Animals’ opens to critical acclaim

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    An outstanding year for Iowa literature

    July 23, 2018

    By: Cristóbal McKinney The University of Iowa is an internationally recognized leader in creative writing and related specialties. Faculty and students in Iowa’s graduate and undergraduate programs produce plays, novels, poems, essays, and translations. Some study the art of book and papermaking; others are aspiring journalists cutting their teeth in an award-winning student-run newspaper. And UI publishers print the latest works of new and emerging talent.

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  • Earning an MFA at any age, Workshop co-sponsors panel with the Iowa Summer Writing Festival

    July 17, 2018

    The Iowa Writers’ Workshop partnered with the Iowa Summer Writing Festival to host a one-hour panel discussion on July 17 about earning an MFA in creative writing at any age. The panel comprised graduates of the Iowa Writers' Workshop who came to the program at different ages, some earlier in life, others having already established lives, families, and careers.

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