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5Q Interview: Christopher Lysik, Playwrights Workshop

Tuesday, February 21, 2023
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5Q Interview: Clay Scofield, Iowa Writers' Workshop

Tuesday, February 21, 2023

Congratulations to Workshop alum Jamil Jan Kochai, on The Story Prize longlist for 'The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories'!

Thursday, February 16, 2023
https://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-story-prize-longlist-for-story.html

Congratulations to Lan Samantha Chang, Lucy Ives, and Zachary Lazar, on the longlist for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize!

Friday, February 10, 2023
https://www.newliteraryproject.org/joyce-carol-oates-prize

Iowa Playwrights Workshop graduate Samuel D. Hunter talks about his time at Iowa and writing his play, The Whale, now adapted into a film starring Brendan Fraser

Wednesday, February 8, 2023
https://bit.ly/3kJWHjo

In ‘This Other Eden,’ a Historical Tale of Paradise Lost: a fantastic New York Times review of Workshop alum & Pulitzer Prize-winner Paul Harding's new novel

Friday, February 3, 2023
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/24/books/review/this-other-eden-paul-harding.html

Congratulations to Joy Harjo, winner of the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award and to Vauhini Vara, a finalist for the John Leonard Prize for Best First Book, from The National Book Critics Circle

Friday, February 3, 2023
https://www.bookcritics.org/2023/01/31/national-book-critics-circle-announces-finalists-for-publishing-year-2022/

"Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2023" includes new books by UI grads Sabrina Orah Mark, Curtis Sittenfeld, Edan Lepucki, C Pam Zhang, Vauhini Vara & Jamel Brinkley!

Friday, January 27, 2023
https://lithub.com/lit-hubs-most-anticipated-books-of-2023/

Highlighted piece from International Writing Program Director Christopher Merrill on preserving truth-telling

Friday, January 27, 2023
https://michaeljudge.substack.com/p/christopher-merrill-tell-it-slantnotes?utm_source=direct&r=3hmty&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Congratulations to Iowa Writers' Workshop grad Brandon Taylor for this National Book Foundation prize for his wonderful debut, "Real Life"!

Friday, January 27, 2023
https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-books-and-literature-brandon-taylor-china-e705497c49f2dcb36271686feb6f544c
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