Seven writers with ties to the University of Iowa Writers Workshop earn honors from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Five writers with ties to the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop earned 2021 Guggenheim Fellowships.

Iowa Writers' Workshop graduate Toby Altman wins the 2021 NEA Literature Fellowship in Poetry.

Fred Moten won the 2020 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin for his book, Black and Blur, released by Duke University Press in 2017.

Tracie Morris joined the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 2020.

Three graduates of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop were among those longlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize: Kiley Reid, Brandon Taylor, and C Pam Zhang.

Jamel Brinkley joined the Iowa Writers' Workshop faculty in 2020.

Abigail Carney, who is from Ohio, shares what she's learned while pursuing her MFA at Iowa Writers' Workshop.

Workshop alumni Yiyun Li (MFA, 2005), Oscar Cásares(MFA, 2001), and Garth Greenwell (MFA, 2015) are among 175 scholars, artists, and scientists awarded fellowships this year from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Yiyun Li (MFA, 2005) won a Windham-Campbell Prize in fiction in 2020.