IWP News

The Asian American Writers' Workshop published a poem by TANG Siu Wa (IWP '14) on the Hong King protests.
Poet Ewa LIPSKA (IWP '75) talks about the new and the old poetry scene in her hometown Krakow, a recent addition to the UNESCO City of Literature network.
USA Today profiles Kaitlyn Busbee, the filmmaker that documented our recent Reading Tour in China.
On 11/8, KIM Kyung-Uk (IWP'13) reads at a KLTI-organized event at the Korean Cultural Center in Los Angeles.
Amanda Lee KOE (IWP '13) has won the English fiction award at the Singapore Literature Prize.
Christopher MERRILL spoke with Storytellers Campfire Radio Program about the upcoming IWP showcase at the Library of Congress.
The shortlist for the 2014 Golden Baobab Prizes for African Children's Literature includes Mamle KABU's (IWP '14) Flying through Water.
On the 2015 longlist for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature are the most recent novels by Meena KANDASAMY (IWP '09) and Bilal TANWEER (IWP '12).
Omar PÉREZ (IWP '14) is in Tuscaloosa, Alabama for a weeklong residency at the University of Alabama
Iowa Now tells the story of Bernice CHAULY (IWP '14) reuniting with three of her former students on the UI campus.

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Congratulations on fall 2020 awards and nominations: Pola OLOIXARAC, one of the two winners of the prestigious 2021 Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer’s Award for her forthcoming Atlas Literario del Amazonas; Courtney Sina Meredith, co-short-listed on the NZSA Heritage Literary Awards list, and Wipas SRITHONG, one among the six finalists for the ASEAN-centric Epigram Books Fiction Prize.
Going strong, with A Perfect Cemetery forthcoming in 2021 in Jennifer Croft’s translation from Charco Press, Federico FALCO (Argentina, IWP ’12) is also the finalist of the 38th Premio Herralde for his novel Los llanos.
Among the 2020 finalists for the distinguished Neustadt International Prize for Literature are two IWP alumni: Sahar KHALIFEH (Palestinian Territories, IWP ’78) and Eduardo HALFÓN (Guatemala/USA; US Study Tours ’11). Congratulations!
On the shortlist of ALTA’s National Translation Award for 2020 (prose) is God’s Wife by Amanda MICHALOPOULOU (IWP ’19), translated from the Greek by Patricia Felisa Barbeito.
On 10/15/2020, the Al Quds/Jerusalem-based Palestinian poet Najwan DARWISH (IWP ‘10) and his translator will be launching Najwan’s new English-language collection, Embrace. (Registration for the Zoom event and a small fee required.)