More than 40 Pulitzer Prize winners. Seven U.S. Poet Laureates. Countless award-winning playwrights, screenwriters, journalists, translators, novelists and poets.
Writing and Communication at Iowa
More than 40 Pulitzer Prize winners. Seven U.S. Poet Laureates. Countless award-winning playwrights, screenwriters, journalists, translators, novelists and poets.
The University of Iowa’s writing programs shape the landscape of American literature. Iowa established an MFA standard.
Featured Events
Featured Events
From readings to performances to book launches, Iowa City hosts extraordinary writing events every week, on campus and in town!
Live from Prairie Lights | Carrie Olivia Adams & Nathan Hoks in conversation with Danielle Wheeler
Carrie Olivia Adams will read from her new poetry collection, The Book of Marys and Glaciers, and Nathan Hoks will read from his new paperback edition of his poetry collection, Moony Days of Being. They will be joined in conversation with Danielle Wheeler.
Described by Tupelo Press as a collection of poems that "engag[e] with deserts, consumerism, Alaskan ice, religious icons, and more," The Book of Marys and Glaciers is praised by Marisa Siegel of The Rumpus, who says, "Adams challenges her...
Live from Prairie Lights | Rebecca Lehmann in conversation with Paige Lewis - 'The Beheading Game'
Rebecca Lehmann will read from her new novel, The Beheading Game, and will be joined in conversation with Paige Lewis. The Beheading Game "begins in the hours after Anne Boleyn’s beheading, when she wakes to find herself unceremoniously laid to rest in a makeshift coffin, her head wrapped in linen at her knees" and continues with "Anne escapes the Tower of London, sews her head back on, then sets out on a quest to kill Henry VIII before he can marry her own lady-in-waiting Jane Seymour" (penguin...
Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival
Creativity meets opportunity - Explore a thriving arts community within a pioneering research university.
Creativity meets opportunity - Explore a thriving arts community within a pioneering research university.
