11 November 2009
The Iowa Review congratulates Jingwen Cao for winning our cover redesign contest. Jingwen is an undergraduate at the University of Iowa pursuing her BFA in graphic design. Look for our new design's debut in April 2010!

22 October 2009
Kirstin Allio's short story "Clothed, Female Figure," from our Fall 2008 issue, was selected by series editor Laura Furman for inclusion in the PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2010, to be published in May 2010 by Anchor Books. Kirstin's story is just one of twenty chosen for the prestigious award from among the thousands of short stories published in American and Canadian literary magazines each year.

3 September 2009
Attention designers! The Iowa Review is having a contest to redesign its cover. Our new look will be launched during 2010, our 40th anniversary year. Check out the design contest rules.

9 September 2009
Our September 3 evening of readings from the River issue and tributes to David Hamilton was so popular, people were turned away at the door! If you missed it, you can listen here.

3 September 2009
The Iowa Review hosts its annual reading on Thursday, September 3, at 7:00 p.m, at the Old Capitol Museum on the University of Iowa campus. Authors will read selections from our Fall issue, which focuses on rivers. This year we will also be celebrating retiring editor David Hamilton's 32 years of service. There will be a coffee and dessert reception after the reading. All are welcome.

11 June 2009
Come see us at the Literary Magazine & Small Press Fair at Old Brick Church (26 Market St.) in Iowa City!

4 May 2009
The Pushcart Prize XXXIV: Best of the Small Presses, 2010 edition, will include two pieces originally published in The Iowa Review: Eula Biss's essay "Time and Distance Overcome" (Spring 2008) and Carolyne Wright's poem "This dream the world is having about itself..." (Fall 2008).

30 April 2009
Staff news: our hardworking and talented assistant editor Ryan Van Meter had his essay "First" chosen for Best American Essays 2009. Good work, Ryan!

24 April 2009
Congratulations to Patricia Hampl, whose essay "The Dark Art of Description" (from our Spring 2008 issue) was selected by Mary Oliver for The Best American Essays 2009, forthcoming in October.

25 August 2008
Our annual reading at Prairie Lights Books will be on Tuesday, September 2, at 7:00 p.m. Fiction writer Steven Patterson, poet Kiki Petrosino, and nonfiction writer Amy Leach, all featured in the Fall 2008 issue, will read from their work.

14 July 2008
We are happy to announce our 2009 Iowa Review Awards contest, with judges Li-Young Lee (poetry), Ann Patchett (fiction), and John D'Agata (nonfiction). Enter in January 2009; rules can be found here.

29 May 2008
The winners of the 2008 Iowa Review Awards have been announced. Hearty congratulations to them, and our thanks to all who entered. The winning entries will be published in our December 2008 issue.

26 November 2007
Hat trick! We're in three Best Americans this year. Stephen Dunn's "Where He Found Himself" (36/2), which appears in Best American Poetry 2007, joins Stellar Kim in Best American Short Stories and Jerald Walker in Best American Essays. We would also like to congratulate John Michael Cummings ("The Scratchboard Project," 36/1) and Philipp Meyer ("The Wolf," 36/2), whose stories were honorable mentions in Best American Short Stories.

30 September 2007
In today's New York Times Book Review, Stephen King describes a trip to his local mega-bookstore: "And here [the bottom shelf of the magazine rack] I find fresh treasure: not just Zoetrope and Tin House, but also Five Points and The Kenyon Review. No Glimmer Train, but there's American Short Fiction, The Iowa Review, even an Alaska Quarterly Review" ("What Ails the Short Story"). Perhaps this copy of The Iowa Review was the one in which King discovered "Findings & Impressions" (see April 3 entry below)?

3 April 2007
Work from The Iowa Review has been selected for two upcoming Best American anthologies! Jerald Walker's essay "Dragon Slayers" (36/2) was chosen for Best American Essays 2007, edited by David Foster Wallace, and Stellar Kim's story "Findings & Impressions" (36/3) will appear in Best American Short Stories 2007, edited by Stephen King. Look for both anthologies this October.

20 November 2006
The new Pushcart Prize anthology is out, and besides printing Maureen Stanton's essay "Laundry," it lists as Special Mentions three pieces that originally appeared in The Iowa Review: "Moonface and Charlie" by Angela M. Balcita, "The Driest Season" by Meghan Kenny, and "Individualized Altimetry of Stripes" by Charles McLeod.

27 October 2006
Northwestern University Press will publish Iowa Review contributor John Rybicki's latest collection of poems, We Bed Down Into Water, in fall 2007.

22 May 2006
Maureen Stanton's essay "Laundry" (34/3) which won the 2004 Iowa Award in nonfiction, will be published in Pushcart Prize XXXI: Best of the Small Presses. Look for the anthology in November.

2 May 2006
Roy Kesey ("Instituto," 34/3) won the 2005 Bullfight Media Little Book Contest, and his novella, Nothing in the World, will be published this month.

28 April 2006
Michael Robins (34/1) is this year's winner of the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry. His poetry collection, The Next Settlement, will be published in Spring 2007.

1 March 2006
Billy Collins has selected Donald Platt's poem "Two Poets Meet" (34/1) for inclusion in The Best American Poetry 2006, due out this fall.

15 December 2005
Submissions from Iowa writers are being sought for a new web project, Iowa Writes.

21 September 2005
Stephen Dunn's poem "Five Roses in the Morning" (34/1) appears in the brand-new Best American Poetry 2005, edited by Paul Muldoon.

29 July 2005
Contributor Kathleen Flenniken (33/1, 34/2) won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry. Her collection, Famous, will be published in Fall 2006.

23 May 2005
James McKean's essay "D/Altered" from The Iowa Review 34/1 has been awarded a Pushcart Prize and will be included in the forthcoming Pushcart Prize XXX: Best of the Small Presses.



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