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Andrea Brady seated; her book, Poetry and Bondage: A History and Theory of Lyric Constraint, with colorful concentric circle artwork

Andrea Brady receives 2025 Truman Capote Award

Wednesday, October 8, 2025
The prestigious prize is the largest annual cash award for English-language literary criticism and will be awarded to poet and Professor of Poetry at Queen Mary University of London, Andrea Brady.
Covers of: The Wilderness by Angela Flournoy, Only Son by Kevin Moffet, The Pelican Child by Joy Williams, Things in Nature Only Grow by Yiyun Li

4 Iowa alums longlisted for National Book Award

Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Anjie Lee and Ajay Patri

Iowa Writers’ Workshop student, alumna receive grants from James Patterson to finish books

Thursday, September 11, 2025
Chuck Martin examining cacao pods on tree

Iowa Alum Empowers Small Cacao Farmers in Central America

Tuesday, June 17, 2025