Alumni Updates

Steven Willis standing outside Prairie Lights

Writers' Workshop Alumni

News, Publications, and Awards

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

Before the Mango Ripens, by Afabwaje Kurian

Before the Mango Ripens
Afabwaje Kurian
_{September 24, 2024 | Fiction}

The Goner School
Jessica Laser
_{September 27, 2024 | Poetry}

Small Rain
Garth Greenwell
_{September 3, 2024 | Fiction}

Terminal Maladies
Okwudili Nebeolisa

Browse Publications

See Prizes & Awards

The Latest Alumni Updates

┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈

Monday, December 8, 2025

Wednesday, 12/10, 7 pm in Prairie Lights bookstore, join us as Workshop Assoc. Professor of fiction, Jamel Brinkley discusses his award-winning short stories. Provost Kevin Kregel will deliver remarks; Brinkley will read and join Stephen Lovely for a conversation and Q&A events.uiowa.edu/event/35102

┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈

Monday, December 8, 2025

Join the Ko Won Foundation in celebrating the 100th memorial birthday of Korean American poet and translator, Ko Won (1925-2008, Workshop MFA 1965), and the 55th anniversary of his publication of, 'Contemporary Korean Poetry'. | Los Angeles, CA, December 19, 11:30 a.m. at Yong Su San restaurant