April, 2019

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

• 2019 Guggenheim Fellowships to Janine di Giovanni, Carmen Giménez Smith, Joanna Klink, Carmen Maria Machado, and Shane McCrae

March, 2019

• Merritt Tierce a 2019 Whiting Award Winner

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

February, 2019

• Sandra Cisneros accepts PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature

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

October, 2018

• Robert Hass receives 2018 Truman Capote Award

September, 2018

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

July, 2018

• An outstanding year for Iowa literature

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