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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Today’s “Poem-a-Day,” by TSE Hao Guang 谢皓光, is from his volume The International Left-Hand Calligraphy Association, forthcoming from Tinfish Press.
We regret to note the passing, after a life of exile, of the distinguished Iraqi poet and translator Saadi YUSEF (Youssef). His translation of Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself into the Arabic became one of the cornerstones of WhitmanWeb.
Do yourselves a favor and go watch The Middleman, a French-Belgian miniseries co-written and co-directed by Etgar KERET and Shira Geffen, on The Criterion Channel as of June 2021.
On June 14th, Asia Society will host an evening of readings in support of the Burmese writers killed or arrested following the military coup earlier this year. Among the presenters will be US Poet Laureates Joy Harjo and Robert Hass, Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek (Austria), poets Brenda Hillman, David St. John, and Christopher Merrill (USA), Esther Dischereit (Germany), Kinga Tóth (Hungary), and many more. Register here.
New books by alumnae Enza Garcia ARREAZA (Cosmonauta) and Pilar QUINTANA (Los Abismos) are reviewed in the May 2021 (18) issue of Latin American Literature Today.