News from the @uiowa University of Iowa's creative writing programs + events in Iowa City. Podcasts, readings, digital humanities + literary mapping projects.
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The new issue of the @IowaReview is out now! Volume 54, Issue 2 includes work by Mahnoor Ali, Shane Kowalski, Marianne Boruch, Shirley Chan, Peter Mishler, Sarah Lao, and more! iowareview.org/issue/volume-…
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Calling all UI writers, creatives, cultural critics, sports fans! Join @MagidWriting this fall for our latest iteration of "The Big Binge" where you'll learn what it takes to conceptualize, write, produce & release a television series with renowned writer & showrunner Gina Welch!
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Looking for exciting information about academic events, submission timelines for campus literary magazines, and inspiring upcoming events? Check out the latest issue of The Word from Magid Center for Writing! >> mailchi.mp/f58acbb72a31/welc…
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The @uiowa Carver College of Medicine Writing and Humanities @IowaMed has launched Vol 11 of @ExaminedLife_UI Journal! It's available online & in local IC bookshops. And they are OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS through April 1st, for fiction, nonfiction + poetry: theexaminedlifejournal.com/c…
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COOKIES COOKIES COOKIES! Free! Come to the @uiowa Iowa AWP Booth # 3033. Come get a cookie! Yay. 🍪#AWP24 @RickKlatt @CLMerrill
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COFFEE COFFEE COFFEE at the @uiowa Iowa Booth 3033! FREE! No money! Come get it pls. And sit on the couch. #AWP24 @RickKlatt @CLMerrill
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Issue 10 of the The Examined Life Journal @ExaminedLife_UI includes more than 250 pages of great writing from healthcare professionals, students, patients, and family members! Grab a copy here: theexaminedlifejournal.com/
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Today! Author Jane Smiley will be hosting a Q&A at 7:00pm in Shambaugh Auditorium in the UI Main Library. During this session, ask her about her career as a writer, her Pulitzer-prize winning One Thousand Acres, and her own education at the @uiowa!
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Join us! The UI Dept of English @IowaEnglish welcomes Ida Cordelia Beam Speaker & UI alum, Jane Smiley, on Thurs, Oct. 5 at 7 p.m, in the Main Library's Shambaugh Auditorium. Smiley is the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of 'A Thousand Acres.' More info: events.uiowa.edu/79922
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The International Writing Program @UIIWP has brought 34 remarkable, talented writers from all over the globe to campus, and we would love for you to connect with them at one of our upcoming events here!: iwp.uiowa.edu/residency/even…
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The UI Center for the Book (UICB) will bring two Japanese papermakers to participate in a two-week residency on the @uiowa campus. The Future of a Tradition: Asian Craft, Iowa Innovation, and Japanese Papermaking will take place April 11-24, 2023 international.uiowa.edu/news…
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Explore a virtual tour of the exhibit "A Hub, a Network, an Archive: 55 Years of International Writers in Iowa City" at the @UILibraries @UIIWP here! 📸🖼️📚💻: thinglink.com/mediacard/1625…
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This summer the @IowaWritersWksp will offer 3-week graduate-level summer session courses! Admission based on manuscript review and is open to all applicants, enrolled in a degree program or not. Deadline for application is March 6. More info here: writersworkshop.uiowa.edu/su…
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New 5Q interview w/ Josephine Geiger-Lee, Noelle Franzone, & Hannah Cargo, editors of 'snapshots,' @uiowa's literary magazine for children. "There are often copies floating around the Perch in the @UILibraries and the @MagidWriting center." Read here!🔗>> bit.ly/3SJYBwt
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The Magid Center for Writing @MagidWriting is pleased to announce this year’s writer-in-residence: Angie Cruz @acruzwriter! Join us for events Thursday, 10/6, 5:30PM at @Prairie_Lights and Public Q&A Friday, 10/7, 10:30AM at @IowaWritersWksp's Dey House (507 North Clinton St.)
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New featured @uiowa archive: Carl Phillips in conversation with Kaveh Akbar, Live from @Prairie_Lights, March 4, 2022. Phillips reads from his new book Then the War: And Selected Poems
Listen here!: 🔊 digital.lib.uiowa.edu/island…
Yiyun Li will be in conversation with @UIIWP's director, @CLMerrill on 9/22 at 12PM in the @uiowa Main Library Gallery. Later that same day at 7PM, Li will read from her work at @Prairie_Lights, followed by a conversation with Lan Samantha Chang, director of the @IowaWritersWksp!
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Sit in on a one-of-a-kind conversation with @IowaWritersWksp director Lan Samantha Chang and Charity Nebbe of @IowaPublicRadio Talk of Iowa, as they discuss Chang's most recent book, The Family Chao! Event registration: foriowa.info/3DhIS32
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The Truman Capote Literary Trust and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop will present the 2022 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism to Heather Clark on September 14th at 4pm in the Old Capitol Senate Chamber. Join us! @IowaWritersWksp
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Join us for an eco-cabaret featuring performances by Danika Kelly, @CLMerrill, @UIowaDance and more, this Sunday 2pm at the @englert Theater.
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The University of Iowa Writers' Workshop was the first creative writing degree program in the United States, and since its founding in 1936, this # 1 program has been home to thousands of remarkable writers. More: writersworkshop.uiowa.edu/
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The Iowa City Book Festival is coming soon! From Sept. 18-Oct. 13, the festival brings more world-renowned authors to town for readings and events! Learn more at iowacityofliterature.org/icb… @IowaCityofLit
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Read our new 5Q Interview with Madhushree Ghosh, University of Iowa Press @UIowaPress author of “Khabaar: An Immigrant Journey of Food, Memory, and Family” here!: bit.ly/3u97IgM @WriteMadhushree
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TONIGHT! University of Iowa Alumni and Friends Social at #AWP22. Join friends & alumni from @uiowa, including @IowaWritersWksp director Lan Samantha Chang, @ Bank & Bourbon, 1200 Market St (in Loews Philadelphia Hotel) from 5:30 to 7:30pm.🔗bit.ly/3NhQkOi @UIAdvancement
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Iowa Writers' Workshop graduate and PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author T.C. Boyle will read at the Englert Theatre on Thurs, May 5, 7:30 pm. Register today to attend in person, or via livestream! 🔗: bit.ly/36IPNUG @IowaWritersWksp @UIAdvancement @englert
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The @uiowa Presidential Lecture provides an opportunity for distinguished faculty members to present significant aspects of their work. This year's lecture will take place on Feb 27, 3:30pm, w/ Craig Kletzing, @CLMerrill, and Patricia Winokur.
Learn more: bit.ly/3uHlB6n
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Friday highlight! A translation of Xenophanes by Dan Beachy-Quick.🌌Read it here in the @uiowa Translation MFA's journal Ancient Exchanges: bit.ly/xenophanes18 @exchangesjrnl
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The @StateDept has been hard at work creating an official Summit for Democracy event on Advancing Racial Justice Through Sports Diplomacy on December 7 at 10:00 AM EST. We invite you to listen to five international athlete-activist panelists here!: interactive.america.gov/demo… @UIIWP
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The Carver College of Medicine Writing and Humanities Program is just 1 week away from the start of the 2021 The Examined Life Conference @ExaminedLife_UI! They also have 2 free public featured presentations. See the full program here:
bit.ly/2YYK9dv
Nicole Hodges Persley, actor and director, Thursday, September 30, 2021 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM CDT creativematters.research.uio…
Profile: Mark Johnson, UI alum and winner an Academy Award, three Emmys, a Peabody, and a Golden Globe for films such as Rain Man and television shows such as Breaking Bad. 🖤💛🔗: stories.uiowa.edu/investing-…
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS! Submissions are being accepted for a chapbook of Poetry and Creative Nonfiction essays. Proceeds from the sales will go toward helping Friends of the Animal Center Foundation @IC_FACF fulfill its mission! Email michael@FACF.org for more info! 🐶😺
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Announcing a new issue of Exchanges: Journal of Literary Translation @exchangesjrnl! Check out their spring 2021 issue, "Without": bit.ly/3w3dKxv
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College applicants! Check out the @I_Y_W_P's "Finding Your Voice: The Art of the College Admission Essay," a course to help you put your best foot forward in college admission essays! Brainstorm topics, discuss structure, & get feedback!
For more info, email 📨: iywp@uiowa.edu
Nichole Shaw is passionate about telling stories that often go unheard or are ignored in mainstream media. As a journalism and @IowaEnglish double major she spent her undergraduate years doing just that.
Read about her experience at @uiowa here! 💛🖤🔗: stories.uiowa.edu/spring-202…
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It was a winding path that brought Leticia Fernández-Fontecha Rumeu to the @uiowa for her MFA in Spanish Creative Writing, which the writer and historian calls a “beautiful experience.”
Read her story here! 💛🖤🔗: stories.uiowa.edu/spring-202…
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"Iowa’s unmatched writing-related resources prepare its graduates for success in many fields." A great piece about our graduating writers at the @uiowa! Meet four of our spring graduates with creative writing in their hearts.
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Read here 🔗: stories.uiowa.edu/spring-202…
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"One of the most prestigious graduate programs for writing in the country, it has ... a roster of iconic alumni." Oprah's Book Club highlights the Iowa Writers' Workshop and Marilynne Robinson on their Instagram page here! Read >>🔗: instagram.com/p/CNvGe5NA5Bp
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Iowa City: The next community Writers Open Mic will be this Sunday 4/4, 4-5 PM on Zoom. All writing genres and levels welcome! To sign up for a slot, please email Laura Felleman at lafelleman(at)gmail(dot)com. Then join the event at this link Sunday! >> bit.ly/3kOmfb5
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Announcing The World on Fire: Ecology, Poetry, & Disability Justice. An evening of readings w/ distinguished poets & young poets of tomorrow, diverse voices exploring the intersection of disability & climate justice! Mar 31 7-9 PM EDT
Register🔗: worldonfire.eventbrite.com @UIIWP
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This is pretty cool: Eight new saplings originating from trees owned by or connected to famous authors & poets were planted at the Dey House, home to the Iowa Writers' Workshop on @uiowa campus! 🌿
Meet the trees here!🔗: magazine.foriowa.org/story.p… @UIAdvancement @IowaWritersWksp
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The International Writing Program (@UIIWP) invites U.S. students ages 15-22 from Iowa and across the country to apply to their virtual summer programs.
**The programs are 100% free for 2021**
More info🔗>> bit.ly/3chF9DH
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In Iowa City, the exploration and creation never stops. The 2021 Iowa Summer Writing Festival @ISWFestival is virtual for writers of all levels!:
bit.ly/IowaSummerWritingFest…
And visit our virtual booth at #AWP21 to learn more about writing at Iowa: bit.ly/3smKO1m
Hello #AWP21! Here’s our lineup for Sat's “Inside Iowa” showcase: @AronajiAji (@exchangesjrnl Translation MFA), Yamila Transtenvot & Lupita Zavaleta Vega (Spanish Creative Writing MFA) & Anahita Ghazvinizadeh (Screenwriting @UICinematicArts).
Register!🔗>>bit.ly/InsideIowa4
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Iowa City: The next community Writers Open Mic will be this Sunday 3/7, 4-5 PM on Zoom. All writing genres and levels welcome! To sign up for a slot, please email Laura Felleman at lafelleman(at)gmail(dot)com. Then join the event at this link Sunday! 🔗>> bit.ly/3kOmfb5
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More than 40 Pulitzer Prize winners. Seven U.S. Poet Laureates. Countless award-winning playwrights, novelists, journalists, & poets. Iowa is proud to be the presenting sponsor of #AWP21: bit.ly/3smKO1m
Visit us here! 🔗>> writinguniversity.org
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Hello #AWP21 friends! The Iowa Review @IowaReview publishes the best short stories, poems, & essays being written today. Recently published work has been selected for Best American Poetry, Best American Essays, the Pushcart Prize. Visit their booth here!: bit.ly/TheIowaReview
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Today! Here’s the lineup of panelists for our first #AWP21 “Inside Iowa” showcase, today at 2:30pm CST: @CLMerrill w/ @UIIWP, @mjyidani w/ @IowaWritersWksp, and @melissafebos + Darius Stewart w/ @iowa_nwp. Register here! 🔗 >> bit.ly/InsideIowa1 💛🖤
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Tonight! “Poetry provides a means to move through history with acute corporeal and spiritual awareness.” – Joy Harjo, #AWP21 keynote speaker, the 23rd U.S. poet laureate, & a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop @uiowa. Register for the keynote here! 🔗: bit.ly/3qeHTXp
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A reminder for our #AWP21 friends: The Writing University also is a publisher! Established in 1969, the @UIowaPress serves scholars, students & readers throughout the world with works of poetry, short fiction & creative nonfiction. Visit them at AWP here!: bit.ly/3kGfcRO
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