The International Writing Program

Designed to celebrate and illustrate five decades of the program's work, participants, and accomplishments. Discover a window into our archive, maps visualizing the program's global reach, a timeline of milestones, and so much more. 

Explore our timeline map and database of nearly 1,400 IWP participants since 1967 by any combination of categories.

Origins: The International Writing Program Podcast is an interview series with writers from around the world addressing the origins of their creative works, the literary and social cultures in which they write, and the art of language. 

When you give to the IWP, you give a writer of exceptional talent or in difficult circumstances a world of opportunity. A tax-deductable donation of any amount fosters freedom of expression and global literature. 

91st Meridian is an online literary journal of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, published intermittently, which aims to contribute to general reading beyond the borders of the Anglophone sphere.