Financial Aid
Normally,
financial assistance is available for all students
enrolled in the program.
Any out-of-state student awarded at least a one-quarter time appointment as
a form of financial aid automatically has his or her tuition reduced to the
resident rate. Students awarded at least a one-quarter time appointment will also receive tuition scholarships of $1,487.50 per semester from the Graduate College. Financial Aid application forms are due January 3. Forms are
enclosed in all information packets sent to applicants. You can also download
them here:
Application for Graduate Awards*
Supplement
to Financial Aid application*
Graduate Teaching Assistantships
In 2006-07, teaching assistantships will carry the following stipends: $10,794
for one-third time (two sections of class per year) and $16,191 for one-half
time (three sections per year). A limited number of these appointments are
available. The appointment involves teaching in the General Education/Literature
Program or the Rhetoric Program. Recommendations for teaching assistantships
are made by the Writers' Workshop faculty to the directors of these programs.
These program directors sometimes give applicants who have had teaching experience
first consideration.
Graduate Research Assistantships
In 2006-07 these awards were $7,993 for one-quarter time research assistantships (approximately 10 hours of work per week).
Fellowships
A number
of one- and two-year non-teaching stipends are available to incoming
students. They are the Maytag Fellowship, the Truman Capote Fellowship,
the Iowa Arts Fellowship, and the Dean's Graduate Fellowship.
The University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop does not require GRE scores for admission. However, student applications that include GRE scores may be more competitive for a greater range of financial assistance.
Teaching-Writing Fellowships are awarded to second-year students by the Iowa
Writers' Workshop itself. The fellowship carries a stipend of $16,500. The
appointment requires teaching one of the Creative Writing, Fiction Writing,
or Poetry Writing courses offered to undergraduates. Very few of these fellowships
are available. An applicant must be a degree candidate in the Workshop.
A small number of fellowships are available to graduates of the Workshop each year. They are the Michener Fellowships and the Glenn Schaeffer Fellowships.
*These downloads are PDF files. If you don’t already have Adobe’s Acrobat Reader (the application necessary to read PDF files), you can download it for free on Adobe's web site.