Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni Claire Lombardo (MFA, 2017) and Ann Patchett (MFA, 1987) are on the longlist for the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction.

Willa Richards was selected as a winner of the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers for her short story, "Failure to Thrive."

Yiyun Li (MFA, 2005) accepted the 2020 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award at a March 2 ceremony in New York, NY for her 2019 novel, Where Reasons End.

Yaa Gyasi is one of three recipients this year who has received a Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Literature, which includes a cash prize of $50,000.

The six Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni were among the 36 writers granted a 2020 Literature Fellowship in Prose from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Brent Hayes Edwards won the 2019 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin for his book, Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination, released by Harvard University Press.

Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden today announced the appointment of Joy Harjo, Iowa Writers’ Workshop alumna, as the nation’s 23rd Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2019-2020.

Former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass won the 2018 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin for his book. The award is administered by the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa.

Natalia Reyes receives Sorros Fellowship