Digital Archives
The IWP is among the best known institutions at the University of Iowa and the premier institution of its kind in the world. In its nearly 40-year history, the program has welcomed over 1000 writers from over 100 countries. In 2003 the UI's School of Library and Information Science took a first step towards preserving and cataloging IWP's large archives so as to make them available to scholars and the public.
The first phase of this project has consisted of digitizing and annotating the audiovisual materials most threatened by disintegration. In the coming phases the archivists will catalogue the program's full holdings and make accessible on-line all of the IWP's recorded sounds and images from the late 1960s on. Eventually the same will be accomplished for the paper collection. Click here to enter the IWP Digital Archives. You will be able to search the recordings that have been digitized and read the detailed catalog entries annotating their content.
- International Writing Program Archive at The Virtual Writing University
- Agreement for inclusion of work in IWP Archive (Word document. Right-Click to download)
Past Conferences
Virtual IWP Bookshelf
- Past IWP Publications
- Samples from 100 Words, an IWP magazine from the 1980s & 1990s.
IWP participants and staff created 100 Words in 1993, primarily as a literary forum for responses to America by foreign writers in residence at the IWP. The journal sought to reflect the diversity of perceptions and ideas found around the world, including in the United States. Each issue was comprised of responses to a single "trigger word" such as voice, memory, fire, night, etc.
Hualing and Paul Engle Gallery
- 1973 video "Community of the Imagination" by Gerald Krell features Paul & Hualing Engle along with many of the writers here in 1973.
- More coming soon …
Archive of Events and Alumni Announcements
- Alumni News (recent)
- Alumni News Archive
- Events & Iowa City Public Library Presentations (recent)
- Events & Iowa City Public Library Presentations Archive