The items below were posted to the original IWP website as "happenings" in 2018.

A lively talk with poet, journalist, translator, and now award-winning Indonesian novelist Laksmi Pamuntjak (IWP '06) at the 2018  Frankfurter Buchmesse.

A rich review in The Hindu of Samay Ki Kasak , the recent Hindi translation of poet, translator, editor and painter Sukrita Paul Kumar's (IWP '02) most recent poetry collection.

Оскорбленные чувства ['Feelings that offend'], the most recent novel of IWP alumna Alisa GANIEVA (IWP '12, '18), was launched in Moscow this summer. Alisa, who is among the 2018 jury members for the distinguished Neustadt Prize for International Literature, will be returning to Iowa this fall as a visiting writer at Grinnell College.

Over on the NYRB Daily blog, Panashe CHIGUMADZI (IWP '17) asks "Whatever's Happening to Interracial Love?"

At a recent TED_X talk, Bina SHAH (IWP '11) explains "Why Pakistan Needs Feminism."

The Guardian covers the debut novel Ponti  by Sharlene TEO (IWP '17).

Asako I & II, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi's film based on a novel by SHIBASAKI Tomoka (IWP '16) will be competing in this year's Cannes film festival. 

On 3/23/18 the  poet, journalist, and activist Harris KHALIQUE  (IWP '15) received the prestigious Award for Pride of Performance for poetry from the President of Pakistan.

X, a radio play inspired by the young Malcolm X's visit to Uganda, which IWP's  Senior Advisor Peter Nazareth wrote in early 1960s for BBC, has just re-appeared in the  February 2018 issue of the Joao Roque Literary Journal.

The Israeli novelist Galit CARLIBACH (IWP '16) has just published the comic novella  It's Me, Iowa !,  set in a world suspiciously resembling the IWP...

Alumni Mahsa MOHEBALI (IWP '13)  and Vivek SHANBAGH (IWP '16) will have new  work translated from the Persian and the Kannada, respectively, thanks to the 2018 PEN/Heim Translation Fund grants.

The 2018 iteration of the distinguished Thomas Mann Preis goes to  the Romanian novelist Mircea Cartarescu (IWP'90).

Clouds, the long-awaited second novel of Chandrahas CHOUDHURY (IWP '10)  is now out from Simon & Schuster India.

Sebastian BARRY (IWP '84), the recent, repeat, winner of the Costa and the Walter Scott awards, will for the next three years be Ireland's Fiction Laureate.

Claire Jacobson, one of IWP's ICRU (Iowa Center Research for Undergraduates) fellows, is featured on  the blog of Asymptote, where she is an assistant interviews editor.