College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
News and Events Archive
Events
January, 2022
December, 2021
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Emory University, Oxford College - Virtual Event | Writers' Workshop Professor, Margot Livesey in conversation with Dr. Tameka Cage Conley
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Prairie Lights Virtual | Elizabeth Weiss in conversation with Yaa Gyasi
October, 2021
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Iowa City Book Festival: Gregory Galloway
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Diptych Fall 2021 Reading
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Iowa City Book Festival: Julie Hanson and Mark Rahe
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Stanley Reads Book Club - Fall 2021
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Prairie Lights Virtual | Geoffrey Hilsabeck in conversation with Suzanne Buffam
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Prairie Lights Virtual | The Writer's Crusade: Kurt Vonnegut and the Many Lives of Slaughterhouse-Five
September, 2021
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Prairie Lights Virtual | Ash Davidson in conversation with Madhuri Vijay
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Stanley Reads Book Club - Fall 2021
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Prairie Lights Virtual - Zoom: Rachel Greenwald Smith and Lisa Wells
August, 2021
July, 2021
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Prairie Lights Virtual - Zoom: Soul & Blues Festival Black Author's Panel
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Prairie Lights Virtual - Zoom: Willa Richards in conversation with Fatima Farheen Mirza
June, 2021
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Prairie Lights Virtual - Zoom: Chris Offutt in conversation with Elizabeth McCracken
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Prairie Lights Virtual - Zoom: Melissa Ginsburg in conversation with Alexander Chee
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Afrofuturism as Expression
May, 2021
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Virtual Reading: Dr. Norman E. Rosenthal Poetry Rx: How 50 Inspiring Poems Can Heal and Bring Joy To Your Life
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Virtual Reading: Larissa Pham in conversation with Jenny Zhang
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Virtual Reading: Black Lives Matter at School: Iowa Edition
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Virtual Reading: Spanish Creative Writing Graduation Reading
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Virtual Reading: Alexander Chee -- Writers @ Grinnell Distinguished Author Event
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Black Lives on Screen: "Black Spring" (in 5 parts)
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Virtual Reading: Geoffrey Nutter & Matthew Rohrer
February, 2021, February, 2021, March, 2021, March, 2021, April, 2021, May, 2021
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Stanley Reads Book Club - Spring 2021
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Stanley Reads Book Club - Spring 2021
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Stanley Reads Book Club - Spring 2021
April, 2021
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UI Arts Share Presents: Writers Unmuffled
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Moderated Conversation with Cathy Park Hong
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Iowa Writers' Workshop Reading with Ada Limón
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Fiction Forum! with Kelly Link
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Iowa Literary Legends: Fatima Farheen Mirza
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Ida Beam Visiting Lecturer: Kelly Link
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Virtual Book Club: The Office of Historical Corrections: A Novella and Stories
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UI Libraries Reading Roundtable focused on bestselling author, Cathy Park Hong’s book Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning(2020)
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Prairie Lights Virtual - Zoom: Kirsten Ihns & Benjamin Krusling
March, 2021
News
March, 2020
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Two Workshop alums are on the longlist for the Women’s Prize for Fiction
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Willa Richards Awarded PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers
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Yiyun Li Awarded the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award
February, 2020
January, 2020
December, 2019
October, 2019
July, 2019
June, 2019
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Librarian of Congress Names Joy Harjo the Nation's 23rd Poet Laureate
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'Idaho' by Emily Ruskovich wins the 2019 International DUBLIN Literary Award
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John Edgar Wideman wins 2019 PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story
April, 2019
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Former Workshop Visiting Instructor, Rebecca Makkai wins Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction
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2019 Guggenheim Fellowships to Janine di Giovanni, Carmen Giménez Smith, Joanna Klink, Carmen Maria Machado, and Shane McCrae
March, 2019
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Merritt Tierce a 2019 Whiting Award Winner
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Marilyn Chin and D.A. Powell win 2019 Literature Awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
February, 2019
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Jade Jones Awarded PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers
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Sandra Cisneros accepts PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature
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Four Writers’ Workshop Alums win Writers Guild “Original Long Form” Award for 'Castle Rock'
October, 2018
September, 2018
July, 2018
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An outstanding year for Iowa literature
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Earning an MFA at any age, Workshop co-sponsors panel with the Iowa Summer Writing Festival
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New Books by Workshop Graduates, Fall 2018