Marking May as the “Short Story Month,” Words Without Borders highlights some of its stellar past publications, the Dagestani-Russian novelist Alisa Ganieva’s bitterly comic “A Village Feast” among them.
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 Engle, the program has since welcomed over 1,600 writers from over 160 countries. The documentation of their time and work in the IWP has been preserved in a variety of formats, media, and locations.
- Writer Database by Year
- Writer Database by Region/Country
- Writer Database by Genre
- Iowa City Book Festival presentations
- Iowa City Public Library presentations
- Residency Events-at-a-Glance [2014] [2013] [2012] [2011]
- The Periscope: compact interviews with alumni
- Alumni interviews in a variety of publications
- The IWP YouTube channel: video interviews with writers
- Other A/V materials
- IWP Digital Archive Main Library: audio- and video presentations 1967-
- The Peter Nazareth Tape Collection: interviews with African IWP participants
- Cultural Diplomacy: A Linchpin of Public Diplomacy (US Department of State)
- Paul Engle Conferences 2001-2007 (under re-construction)
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