Iowa Summer Rep 2011, “About My Family,” will continue Tuesday–Sunday, July 5–10, with performances of Paul Zindel’s Pulitzer Prize–winning lyrical drama The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds and the evergreen two-person musical comedy I Do! I Do!. The Effect of Gamma Rays… will be held at 8 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday, July 5 and 7, in the David Thayer Theatre of the University of Iowa Theatre Building. I Do! I Do! will be staged at 8 p.m., Wednesday, July 6, and Friday–Sunday, July 8–10, in Theatre B of the UI Theatre Building.

Poets & Writers Magazine features the Iowa Writers' Workshop 75th Anniversary this month in the article, Writers’ Workshop at Seventy-Five: "This year the oldest graduate creative writing program in the United States turns seventy-five.

The Writing University website and the International Writing Program hosted an online chat with Writers' Workshop alumni Kristin Hatch and Edan Lepucki at 12:00 p.m. (CST) Tues, May 25th, 2011.