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R.A. Judy receives Truman Capote Award
September 08, 2023
R.A. Judy, professor of critical and cultural studies at the University of Pittsburgh, has been selected by the University of Iowa as the 2023 recipient of the Truman Capote Literary Trust Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin. -
Accepting submissions for the 2024 Iowa Short Fiction Awards
August 16, 2023
We are pleased to announce the 2024 Iowa Short Fiction Awards will be judged by Jamil Jan Kochai, winner of the Aspen Words Literary Prize and National Book Award Finalist. Any writer yet to publish a volume of fiction is eligible, and two winning manuscripts will be published by the University of Iowa Press. Submit your manuscript by September 30th at https://fictionawards.writersworkshop.uiowa.edu/ -
Celebrating 15 Years of The Rona Jaffe Foundation Graduate Fellowship at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop
April 28, 2023
The Rona Jaffe Foundation, established by celebrated author Rona Jaffe (1931 – 2005) to support other women writers at critical moments in their literary careers, recently marked its 15th year funding a Graduate Fellowship at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop (IWW). The fellowship provides essential financial support to emerging female artists as they deepen their craft and bring their work into the world. -
Lan Samantha Chang, Director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, wins Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
April 03, 2023
Courageous Books About Black Soldiers, Feuding Asian-American Brothers in Wisconsin, Horseracing’s Racial History, and the Pervasiveness of White Supremacy Have All Won the 88th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards CLEVELAND (April 3, 2023) – The Cleveland Foundation today announced the winners of its 88th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. The 2023 recipients of the only national juried prize for literature that confronts racism and explores diversity are: -
Romeo Oriogun wins Nigeria Prize For Literature
October 15, 2022
Romeo Oriogun (MFA '21) has won the Nigeria Prize For Literature for his second collection, Nomad (Griots Lounge Publishing Nigeria, 2021). -
Kay Ryan and Heather Clark Receive the 2021 and 2022 Truman Capote Awards
September 02, 2022
Former U.S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan won the 2021 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin for her book, Synthesizing Gravity: Selected Prose, released by Grove Press in 2021, and Heather Clark won the 2022 award for her book Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, released by Alfred A. Knopf in 2020. -
Jamel Brinkley and Robyn Schiff Win Rome Prizes in Literature
April 25, 2022
Writers’ Workshop faculty member and alumnus, novelist Jamel Brinkley (MFA 2015) and Emory University faculty member and Workshop alumnus, poet Robyn Schiff (MFA 1999) have been awarded 2022-2023 Rome Prizes in Literature. Schiff will receive the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize for Literature, a gift of the Drue Heinz Trust. -
Brandon Taylor wins Story Prize for 'Filthy Animals'
April 14, 2022
Workshop alumnus Brandon Taylor (MFA, 2019) was awarded the 2022 Story Prize last night, for his collection, Filthy Animals (Riverhead Books) . The prize was announced at a private event that was broadcast live, in a ceremony with authors Lily King for Five Tuesdays in Winter (Grove Press) and J. Robert Lennon for Think of Me (Graywolf Press), whose work was also honored. -
2022 Guggenheim Fellowships Awarded to Jerald Walker, Joyelle McSweeney, Jay Hopler, and Eduardo C. Corral
April 07, 2022
Workshop alumni Joyelle McSweeney, Jay Hopler, and Eduardo C. Corral, and Jerald Walker are among 180 artists, writers, scholars and scientists awarded fellowships this year from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. McSweeney, Hopler and Corral are recognized in the field of poetry; and Walker in the field of General Nonfiction. -
Anaïs Duplan and Nana Nkweti, 2022 Whiting Award Winners
April 06, 2022
Anaïs Duplan and Nana Nkweti have won 2022 Whiting Awards, Duplan in the category of Nonfiction and Nkweti in Fiction. Whiting Awards of $50,000 are given annually to writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama, based on accomplishment and promise. They are awarded with the goal of supporting writers early in their careers so they can focus on their work. -
Wong May wins 2022 Windham-Campbell Prize for Poetry
April 06, 2022
Wong May (MFA, 1968) has won a Windham-Campbell Prize in poetry. From the 2022 Windham-Campell Prize winners announcement: "Spanning five decades, Wong May’s startlingly original poetry gleams with wit; her delicate but acute irony balances its lucid seriousness with a fizzing verbal lightness." -
Rachel Pastan's 'In the Field' Wins 2021-2022 National Book Foundation Science + Literature Award
February 28, 2022
Rachel Pastan's recent novel, 'In the Field' (Delphinium, 2021), has won the National Book Foundation's inaugural Science + Literature award. -
Peyton Marshall and George O'Connell Awarded 2022 Literature Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts
January 28, 2022
Peyton Marshall and George O'Connell have been awarded 2022 Literature Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Marshall for creative writing and O'Connell for translation. 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. The Literature Fellowships program operates on a two-year cycle with fellowships in prose and poetry available in alternating years. -
The Family Chao: A new novel by Lan Samantha Chang
January 18, 2022
Praise forThe Family Chao, the highly anticipated new novel from Iowa Writers' Workshop Director, Lan Samantha Chang: from The Guardian: -
Nina Siegal and Kevin González win 2021 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Awards
November 10, 2021
Workshop alumni, Nina Siegal (MFA, 2006) and Kevin González (MFA, 2007) were among merging writers to win a 2021 Creative Nonfiction Grant. Whiting Awards of $40,000 are given annually to writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama, based on accomplishment and promise. They are awarded with the goal of supporting writers early in their careers on “original, ambitious projects that bring writing to the highest possible standard."