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

James Patterson makes a generous gift of scholarships for Writers' Workshop writers.

When former U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera arrived at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 1988, he was in his early 40s and had been writing poetry seriously since he was 16.

The Iowa community remembers friend and teacher, James Alan McPherson