Program News Archive
Three Workshop Alumni Win Awards from Poetry Society of America
T. Geronimo Johnson a 2013 PEN/Faulkner Finalist
Marina Warner Awarded 2013 Capote Prize for "Stranger Magic"
D.A. Powell Wins the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry
Marilynne Robinson Nominated for 2013 Man Booker Prize
Ayana Mathis's Twelve Tribes of Hattie Selected for the Oprah Book Club
Seven Workshop Alumni Win 2013 NEA Fellowships
Maggie Shipstead wins 2012 Dylan Thomas Award
Anthony Marra wins 2012 Whiting Award
Jen duBois, Stuart Nadler, and Justin Torres for the National Book Foundation's "5 Under 35"
Showalter's "A Jury of Her Peers" Wins Truman Capote Award
McCrae and Corral win prestigious Whiting Awards
McGurl's 'The Program Era' Wins Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism
Merritt Tierce wins Rona Jaffe Award
Philip Levine, U.S. Poet Laureate, 2011-2012
The Iowa Writers' Workshop on the PBS NewsHour
Julie Orringer on Orange Prize Longlist
Recent Grads LA Times Award Finalists
Yiyun Li Wins 2010 MacArthur Fellowship
Justin Torres & Michael Fauver Win Lambda Literary Honor
Six Alumni Named to The New Yorker's "20 Under 40"
Paul Harding Wins 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award to D.A. Powell
Workshop Alumni Win Whiting Awards
Jayne Anne Phillips, National Book Finalist
Marilynne Robinson Wins Orange Prize
New Flannery O'Connor Graduate Fellowship Fund
"Gilead" a Favorite Book of Obama's
Iowa City a UNESCO City of Literature
Robinson & Scibona 2008 National Book Award Finalists
Sana Krasikov & Nam Le "5 Under 35"
2008 Yale Younger Poets Award to Arda Collins
Jonathan Thirkield Wins Walt Whitman Award
Wallace Stegner and the American West
The Rona Jaffe Foundation Graduate Fellowship in Creative Writing
Hass & Schultz Awarded 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Workshop Authors Named 2008 Guggenheim Fellows
Statement from the Provost Concerning MFA Theses
Kate Christensen Wins 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award
The Patient Voice Project Awarded Major Project Grant
Workshop Faculty and Alumni Finalists for L.A. Times Book Prize
Matthea Harvey & Mary Jo Bang NBCC Award Nominees
Denis Johnson & Robert Hass Win National Book Awards
Workshop Authors National Book Awards Finalists
Congratulations to Stuart Dybek