Awards & Fellowships

Former Workshop Visiting Instructor, Rebecca Makkai wins Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction

April 12, 2019 - 10:00pm
2019 Guggenheim Fellowships to Janine di Giovanni, Carmen Giménez Smith, Joanna Klink, Carmen Maria Machado, and Shane McCrae

April 9, 2019 - 12:00pm
Sandra Cisneros accepts PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature

February 26, 2019
Marilyn Chin and D.A. Powell win 2019 Literature Awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters

March 11, 2019
Merritt Tierce a 2019 Whiting Award Winner

March 25, 2019
Four Writers’ Workshop Alums win Writers Guild “Original Long Form” Award for 'Castle Rock'

February 19, 2019 - 11:30am
Robert Hass receives 2018 Truman Capote Award

October 8, 2018 - 1:15pm
An outstanding year for Iowa literature

July 23, 2018
‘Permission to dream’ Writers’ Workshop student named Soros fellow

May 23, 2018 - 2:30pm
Andrew Sean Greer wins the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

April 16, 2018 - 3:00pm

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