Fall 2014

September 2014

How Writers Write Fiction
How Writers Write Fiction 2014 has closed; its archived content is available as a MOOCpack on our IWP Online Campus.

Beijing and Chengdu, China, October 2014

Des Moines, USA | Moscow and Smolensk, Russia, November 2014

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Among the twelve distinguished inaugural honorees of the International Writers programme, established in 2021 by the Royal Society of Literature to “recognise the contribution of writers across the globe to literature in English,” is Dubravka UGREŠIĆ.
An enthusiastic review in NYTimes of In Case of Emergency, newly translated, by the Iranian novelist Mahsa MOHEBALI.
Meena KANDASAMY speaks about reading & translating the writings of Tamil Eelam’s women fighters, and about braiding feminism and decolonialization across genres, media, and continents (including Iowa).
To mark PEN International’s centennial, Words Without Borders has published a sampler of works by writers committed to freedom of expression. Algerian novelist and scholar Med MAGANI is among them.
A fall harvest of book reviews coming in: of The Others by Sarah BLAU (translated from the Hebrew by Daniella Zamir); of LO Yi-Chin’s Farewell, translated from the Chinese by Jeremy TIANG; of Véronique TADJO’s In the Company of Men…