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Iowa Writers' Workshop

Index Iowa Writers' Workshop

The Program in Creative Writing, more commonly known as the Iowa Writers' Workshop, at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa, is a much-celebrated graduate-level creative writing program in the United States. [1]

68 relations: A Thousand Acres, All the King's Men, American Pastoral, Andrew Sean Greer, Angle of Repose, Anthony Hecht, Carolyn Kizer, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Charles Wright (poet), Creative writing, Denis Johnson, Donald Justice, Elbow Room (short story collection), Ethan Canin, Frank Conroy, Gail Godwin, Gardner Cowles Jr., Gilead (novel), Henry Luce, Iowa City, Iowa, James Alan McPherson, James Tate (writer), Jane Smiley, John Berryman, John Cheever, John Leggett, Jorie Graham, Karl Shapiro, Lan Samantha Chang, Life (magazine), Look (American magazine), Louise Glück, Marilynne Robinson, Mark Strand, Master of Fine Arts, Maytag, Michael Cunningham, Mona Van Duyn, National Book Award, Near Changes, Paul Engle, Paul Harding (author), Philip Levine (poet), Philip Roth, Philip Schultz, Pulitzer Prize, Quaker Oats Company, Reader's Digest, Rita Dove, Robert Hass, ..., Robert Lowell, Robert Penn Warren, Rockefeller Foundation, T. C. Boyle, The Dream Songs, The Hours (novel), The Soul of a New Machine, The Stories of John Cheever, Time (magazine), Tinkers (novel), Tracy Kidder, U.S. Steel, United States, United States Poet Laureate, University of Iowa, W. D. Snodgrass, Wallace Stegner, Wilbur Schramm. Expand index (18 more) »

A Thousand Acres

A Thousand Acres is a 1991 novel by American author Jane Smiley.

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All the King's Men

All the King's Men is a novel by Robert Penn Warren first published in 1946.

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American Pastoral

American Pastoral is a Philip Roth novel published in 1997 concerning Seymour "Swede" Levov, a successful Jewish American businessman and former high school star athlete from Newark, New Jersey.

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Andrew Sean Greer

Andrew Sean Greer (born November 1970) is an American novelist and short story writer.

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Angle of Repose

Angle of Repose is a 1971 novel by Wallace Stegner about a wheelchair-using historian, Lyman Ward, who has lost connection with his son and living family and decides to write about his frontier-era grandparents.

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Anthony Hecht

Anthony Evan Hecht (January 16, 1923 – October 20, 2004) was an American poet.

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Carolyn Kizer

Carolyn Ashley Kizer (December 10, 1925 – October 9, 2014) was an American poet of the Pacific Northwest whose works reflect her feminism.

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Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Cedar Rapids is the second-largest city in Iowa and is the county seat of Linn County.

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Charles Wright (poet)

Charles Wright (born August 25, 1935) is an American poet.

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Creative writing

Creative writing is any writing that goes outside the bounds of normal professional, journalistic, academic, or technical forms of literature, typically identified by an emphasis on narrative craft, character development, and the use of literary tropes or with various traditions of poetry and poetics.

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Denis Johnson

Denis Hale Johnson (July 1, 1949 – May 24, 2017) was an American writer best known for his short story collection Jesus' Son (1992) and his novel Tree of Smoke (2007), which won the National Book Award for Fiction.

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Donald Justice

Donald Justice (August 12, 1925 – August 6, 2004) was an American poet and teacher of writing.

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Elbow Room (short story collection)

Elbow Room: Stories is a 1977 short story collection by American author James Alan McPherson.

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Ethan Canin

Ethan Andrew Canin (born July 19, 1960) is an American author, educator, and physician.

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Frank Conroy

Frank Conroy (January 15, 1936 – April 6, 2005) was an American author.

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Gail Godwin

Gail Godwin (born June 18, 1937) is an American novelist and short story writer.

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Gardner Cowles Jr.

Gardner "Mike" Cowles Jr. (1903–1985) was an American newspaper and magazine publisher.

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Gilead (novel)

Gilead is a novel written by Marilynne Robinson that was published in 2004.

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Henry Luce

Henry Robinson Luce (April 3, 1898 – February 28, 1967) was an American magazine magnate who was called "the most influential private citizen in the America of his day".

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Iowa City, Iowa

Iowa City is a city in Johnson County, Iowa, United States.

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James Alan McPherson

James Alan McPherson (September 16, 1943 – July 27, 2016) was an American essayist and short-story writer.

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James Tate (writer)

James Vincent Tate (December 8, 1943 – July 8, 2015) was an American poet.

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Jane Smiley

Jane Smiley (born September 26, 1949) is an American novelist.

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John Berryman

John Allyn McAlpin Berryman (born John Allyn Smith, Jr.; October 25, 1914 – January 7, 1972) was an American poet and scholar, born in McAlester, Oklahoma.

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John Cheever

John William Cheever (May 27, 1912 – June 18, 1982) was an American novelist and short story writer.

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John Leggett

John Ward "Jack" Leggett (November 11, 1917 – January 25, 2015) was an American writer who served as the third director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop from 1970 to 1987.

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Jorie Graham

Jorie Graham (born May 9, 1950) is an American poet.

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Karl Shapiro

Karl Jay Shapiro (November 10, 1913 – May 14, 2000) was an American poet.

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Lan Samantha Chang

Lan Samantha Chang (張嵐; pinyin: Zhāng Lán), born 1965, is an American writer of novels and short stories.

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Life (magazine)

Life was an American magazine that ran regularly from 1883 to 1972 and again from 1978 to 2000.

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Look (American magazine)

Look was a bi-weekly, general-interest magazine published in Des Moines, Iowa, from 1937 to 1971, with more of an emphasis on photographs than articles.

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Louise Glück

Louise Elisabeth Glück (born April 22, 1943) is an American poet.

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Marilynne Robinson

Marilynne Summers Robinson (born November 26, 1943) is an American novelist and essayist.

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Mark Strand

Mark Strand (April 11, 1934 – November 29, 2014) was a Canadian-born American poet, essayist and translator.

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Master of Fine Arts

A Master of Fine Arts (MFA or M.F.A.) is a creative degree in fine arts, including visual arts, creative writing, graphic design, photography, filmmaking, dance, theatre, other performing arts—or in some cases, theatre management or arts administration.

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Maytag

The Maytag Corporation is an American home and commercial appliance brand owned by Whirlpool Corporation after the April 2006 acquisition of Maytag.

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Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham (born November 6, 1952) is an American novelist and screenwriter.

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Mona Van Duyn

Mona Jane Van Duyn (May 9, 1921 – December 2, 2004) was an American poet.

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National Book Award

The National Book Awards are a set of annual U.S. literary awards.

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Near Changes

Near Changes is a 1990 collection of poems by Mona Van Duyn (1921–2004).

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Paul Engle

Paul Engle (October 12, 1908 – March 22, 1991), noted American poet, editor, teacher, literary critic, novelist, and playwright.

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Paul Harding (author)

Paul Harding (born 1967) is an American musician and author, best known for his debut novel Tinkers (2009), which won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, SeaCoast Online, October 2010 and the 2010 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize among other honors.

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Philip Levine (poet)

Philip Levine (January 10, 1928 – February 14, 2015) was an American poet best known for his poems about working-class Detroit.

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Philip Roth

Philip Milton Roth (March 19, 1933 – May 22, 2018) was an American novelist and short-story writer.

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Philip Schultz

Philip Schultz (born 1945 in Rochester, New York) is an American poet, and the founder/director of The Writers Studio, a private school for fiction and poetry writing based in New York City.

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Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States.

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Quaker Oats Company

The Quaker Oats Company, known as Quaker, is an American food conglomerate based in Chicago.

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Reader's Digest

Reader's Digest is an American general-interest family magazine, published ten times a year.

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Rita Dove

Rita Frances Dove (born August 28, 1952) is an American poet and essayist.

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Robert Hass

Robert L. Hass (born March 1, 1941) is an American poet.

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Robert Lowell

Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV (March 1, 1917 – September 12, 1977) was an American poet.

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Robert Penn Warren

Robert Penn Warren (April 24, 1905 – September 15, 1989) was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism.

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Rockefeller Foundation

The Rockefeller Foundation is a private foundation based at 420 Fifth Avenue, New York City.

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T. C. Boyle

Thomas Coraghessan Boyle, also known as T. C. Boyle and T. Coraghessan Boyle (born December 2, 1948), is an American novelist and short story writer.

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The Dream Songs

The Dream Songs is a compilation of two books of poetry, 77 Dream Songs (1964) and His Toy, His Dream, His Rest (1968) by the American poet John Berryman.

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The Hours (novel)

The Hours is a 1998 novel written by Michael Cunningham.

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The Soul of a New Machine

The Soul of a New Machine is a non-fiction book written by Tracy Kidder and published in 1981.

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The Stories of John Cheever

The Stories of John Cheever is a 1978 short story collection by American author John Cheever.

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Time (magazine)

Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.

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Tinkers (novel)

Tinkers (2009) is the first novel by American author, Paul Harding.

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Tracy Kidder

John Tracy Kidder (born November 12, 1945) is an American writer of nonfiction books.

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U.S. Steel

United States Steel Corporation, more commonly known as U.S. Steel, is an American integrated steel producer headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with production operations in the United States, Canada, and Central Europe.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States Poet Laureate

The Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress—commonly referred to as the United States Poet Laureate—serves as the official poet of the United States.

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University of Iowa

The University of Iowa (also known as the UI, U of I, UIowa, or simply Iowa) is a flagship public research university in Iowa City, Iowa.

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W. D. Snodgrass

William De Witt Snodgrass (January 5, 1926 – January 13, 2009) was an American poet who also wrote under the pseudonym S. S. Gardons.

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Wallace Stegner

Wallace Earle Stegner (February 18, 1909 – April 13, 1993) was an American novelist, short story writer, environmentalist, and historian, often called "The Dean of Western Writers".

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Wilbur Schramm

Wilbur Lang Schramm (August 5, 1907 – December 27, 1987), was a scholar and "authority on mass communications".

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa_Writers'_Workshop

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