The School of Social Work will host an alumni reunion during Homecoming Weekend, September 28-30. There will be a pre-game tailgate party along the river, west of North Hall and plenty of opportunities to socialize and re-connect. For more information click here. To register, click here.
The University of Iowa School of Social Work, announces the first annual National Poetry Contest for Social Workers. Any social work student, faculty member, or alumnus from a social work program accredited by the Council on Social Work Education- may participate in the contest. The format for the contest will vary each year. For the inaugural year, participants are invited to submit a 7 line poem.. The deadline for submission is March 1, 2013. Poems should speak to hopes, dreams, fears, and experiences related to social work.
The purpose of the contest is to acknowledge the creative talent of social workers and to draw attention to social work as a profession. “Hosting the national poetry contest here in Iowa City is a natural extension of what the School of Social Work has been doing for decades, " says faculty member Mercedes Bern-Klug, a founder of the poetry contest. "We have a 20 year track record of offering a Creative Writing Seminar for social workers and the University of Iowa is known as the 'writing university'. Iowa City is a UNESCO City of Literature. Writing is in the air."
There is no cost to enter the contest. One submission per social worker is allowed. Entries will be judged by a panel of social workers, writers, and poets. The top three submissions will be awarded cash prizes and all submissions will be published in a chapbook and on the UI School of Social Work website. For more information about prizes, deadline and criteria, or to submit a poem online, click on Creative Writing in the left menu.
21st Annual Creative Writing Seminar for Helping Professionals, Iowa City
Elana Lynn Levinson,
MSW Student
I love Iowa City- it has the small town feel with bigger city choices. Also, my job is here and my family is close! I am pursuing social work because I am passionate about people and want to make a difference in the lives of those less advantaged. I hope to work as a school social worker with teens with behavioral problems or learning disabilities. I have also thought about doing therapy.
