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News, Publications, and Awards

Yiyun Li wins 2026 Pulitzer Prize in Memoir Scott Anderson a finalist for the 2026 Pulitzer Prize in History Hajar Hussaini wins 2026 Whiting Award in Poetry Garth Greenwell wins 2025 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Jenny George, Daniel Khalastchi and Jerald Walker are finalists for 2025 PEN Literary Awards Jamel Brinkley and Charles D'Ambrosio awarded Academy of Arts and Letters awards Jamel Brinkley wins 2024 Maya Angelou Book Award Juan Felipe Herrera awarded 2024 MacArthur Genius Grant Ruthvika Rao shortlisted for the Center For Fiction First Novel Prize Elizabeth Willis and m.s. RedCherries longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award in Poetry Tony Tulathimutte longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award in Fiction

Hard Times 
Jeff Boyd 
March 17, 2026 | Fiction

Last Night in Brooklyn 
Xochitl Gonzalez 
April 21, 2026 | Fiction

 

This Household of Earthly Nature 
Cody-Rose Clevidence 
September 15, 2025 | Poetry

 

The Jills 
Karen Parkman 
February 10, 2026 | Fiction

 

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Friday, September 4, 2026
Sunday! 9/6, 4pm in Prairie Lights bookstore, IWP Sunday Aft. Reading Series features IWP Residents Nisrine Mbarki Ben Ayad (Netherlands), Nina Dragičević (Slovenia), & Hidayat Nordin (Singapore), accompanied by Translation MFA candidate/Workshop alum Zubair Siddiqui https://events.uiowa.edu/event/38718/68350

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Friday, September 4, 2026
Sunday! 9/6, 4pm in Prairie Lights bookstore, IWP Sunday Aft. Reading Series features IWP Residents Nisrine Mbarki Ben Ayad (Netherlands), Nina Dragičević (Slovenia), & Hidayat Nordin (Singapore), accompanied by Translation MFA candidate/Workshop alum Zubair Siddiqui https://events.uiowa.edu/event/38718/68350

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Monday, August 31, 2026
Wednesday! September 2 at 7pm Hajar Hussaini will join us for a reading and conversation in the Frank Conroy Reading Room at Glenn Schaeffer Library/Dey House https://events.uiowa.edu/event/38975/68822

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Wednesday, August 26, 2026
Tonight! 8/26 at 7 p.m. in Prairie Lights bookstore, Workshop fiction faculty member, Matthew Neill Null will read from his new novel, 'Floodgate' https://events.uiowa.edu/event/38422/67915

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Wednesday, July 15, 2026
Tonight! July 15th at 7pm, join us in the Frank Conroy Reading Room at Dey House/Glenn Schaeffer Library for a reading by Workshop summer faculty, Claire Lombardo and Margaret Ross events.uiowa.edu/event/38115

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Monday, July 13, 2026
Griffin Rockwell leading an online poetry workshop tonight, July 13, from 6:30-8pm CT - "Opening a Poem: The Power of the Title" https://iowacitypoetry.com/workshops/opening-a-poem-the-power-of-the-title

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Alumni News

Marilyn Monroe Photos Featured in New Book by Workshop Grad

Thursday, August 6, 2026
Emma Conway
Iowa Now

Iowa alumni win 2026 Pulitzer Prizes for memoir, fiction

Wednesday, May 6, 2026
Emily Nelson
Iowa Now
Yiyun Li (MFA '05) and Daniel Kraus take top honors; two other UI graduates were named finalists, including Scott Anderson (MFA 1993)

Hajar Hussaini winner of a 2026 Whiting Award in Poetry

Wednesday, April 15, 2026
Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate Hajar Hussaini one of ten recipients of the 2026 Whiting Award, prestigious literary award for emerging writers

Suji Kwock Kim, Lucy Ives, & Bret Anthony Johnston, named 2026 Guggenheim Fellows

Tuesday, April 14, 2026
Guggenheim Fellows this year include three Workshop alumni: Suji Kwock Kim in Poetry, and Lucy Ives and Bret Anthony Johnston in Fiction.
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