Nigerian playwright, novelist, and Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka gave a public lecture on November 6 as part of the closing festivities of the 2011 IWP residency.
Archives
The IWP is among the best known institutions at the University of Iowa, and the premier institution of its kind in the world. Established in 1967 by poet and previous director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop Paul Engle and novelist and editor Hualing Nieh, the program has since welcomed over 1400 writers from over 130 countries. The documentation of their time and work in the IWP has been preserved in a variety of formats, media and locations.
The Engle Gallery
Alumni/Past Participants
- Writer Database
- Past Iowa City Public Library presentations
- The Periscope: compact interviews with alumni
- IWP participant interviews in UI News
- On the Map: video interviews with writers while in Iowa City (coming soon)
- the IWP YouTube channel
- Other A/V materials
IWP Collections
- IWP Digital Archive Main Library: audio- and video presentations 1975-
- The Peter Nazareth Tape Collection: interviews with African IWP participants
Past Events
- Paul Engle Conferences 2001-2007 (under re-construction)
Happening Now... (more)
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The newest release from 91st Meridian Books: How to Write an Earthquake, a trilingual French-Creole-English e-anthology of poetry and prose responding to the 2010 Haiti earthquake.
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The Norwegian Writers' Association has awarded its 2011 free expression award to Ma Thida (IWP 2005). She is its first-ever recipient from Burma.
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In the first issue of the independent, English-language Iraq Literary Review, edited by Baghdad-based critics Soheil Najm (IWP 2009) and Sadek. R. Mohamed: 100+ pages of criticism, poetry, fiction, translations…
