Past Digital Learning Programming

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2020

Outreach Course - Nonfiction Writing (Russia, October-December, 2020)

2019

MOOC – Hidden Meanings: Creative Fiction, Non-Fiction & Facts (Course active to take on your own schedule Nov. 15 - Dec. 31, 2019)

Outreach Course – Fake News: Facts, Information, Disinformation, Misinformation (Belgium, Nov. 15 - Dec. 31, 2019)

2018

MOOC – Stories of Place: Writing and the Natural World (Nov. 2018)

MOOC – Moving the Margins: Fiction and Inclusion (Sept. 2018)

Outreach Course – Write for Your Life: Turning Trauma into Stories (Russia and Armenia, Nov. 2018)

Outreach Course – “Fake News!”: Facts, Information, Disinformation, Misinformation (Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Kazakhstan, Nov. 2018)

MOOC Translated into Spanish: Cómo los escritores escriben ficción: Mujeres en la narración (How Writers Write Fiction: Storied Women, MOOC in English from Fall 2016)

2017

Outreach Course – A Room of One's Own: Writing Nonfiction in Algeria (Algiers, Spring 2017)

MOOC – Power of the Pen: Identities and Social Issues in Fiction and Nonfiction (May 2017)

MOOC – Power of the Pen: Identities and Social Issues in Poetry and Plays (July 2017)

Outreach Course – On the Line: Playwriting in Russia (Krasnoyarsk | Moscow | Smolensk) (Fall 2017)

2016

MOOC – #Flashwrite Teen Poetry MOOC (Spring 2016)

Outreach Course – Every Grain of Light: Writing Poetry in Afghanistan (Jalalabad | Kabul | Mazar-i-Sharif) (Outreach Course, Summer 2016)

MOOC – Whitman's Civil War: Writing and Imaging Loss, Death, and Disaster (Summer 2016)

MOOC – How Writers Write Fiction 2016: Storied Women (Fall 2016)

2015

Outreach Course – A Room of One's Own (Amman, Jordan | Manama, Bahrain) (Outreach Course, Spring 2015)

MOOC – How Writers Write Poetry 2015 (Spring 2015)

Open-Application Course – Nonfiction Writing Seminar with Amy Leach (Summer 2015)

Open-Application Course – Nonfiction Writing Seminar with Elena Passarello (Summer 2015)

Exchange Open-Application Course – Narrative Witness: Indigenous Peoples, Australia-North America (Fall 2015)

MOOC – How Writers Write Fiction 2015 (Fall 2015)

2014

Open-Application Course – Advanced Nonfiction Seminar (Spring 2014)

MOOC – Every Atom: Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" (Spring 2014)

MOOC – How Writers Write Poetry 2014 (Summer 2014)

Exchange –Narrative Witness 2014: Caracas-Sarajevo (Summer 2014)

Outreach Course – Electric Bodies: An Introduction to Form and Craft (Des Moines, USA | Moscow and Smolensk, Russia) (Fall 2014)

Outreach Course – Here She Comes: Chi Li's Come and Go (Beijing and Chengdu, China) (Fall 2014)

MOOC – How Writers Write Fiction 2014 (Fall 2014)

2013

Event – Reading/Q&A (Bogota, Colombia) (Spring 2013)

Exchange –Virtual Writing Project (Iowa City, USA | East Jerusalem, Israel) (Spring 2013)

Exchange –LGBT Reading Group (Iowa City, USA | Glasgow, Scotland) (Spring 2013)

Outreach Course – Introduction to Creative Writing (St. Petersburg, Russia) (Spring 2013)

Outreach Course – Introduction to Creative Writing & Contemporary American Literature (Hargeisa, Somalia) (Spring 2013)

Open-Application Course – Virtual Poetry Seminar (Spring 2013)

Open-Application Course – Poetry Master Class (Summer 2013)

Open-Application Course – Advanced Poetry Seminar (Summer 2013)

Outreach Course – Longing, We Say: Distance in the Literary Imagination (Kirkuk, Iraq) (Fall 2013)

Outreach Course – Angry Young Men: Creative Approaches to Hamlet, Catcher in the Rye, and the First-Person Narrative (St. Petersburg, Russia) (Fall 2013)

Open-Application Course – Advanced Fiction Seminar (Fall 2013)

2012

Outreach Course – Introduction to Creative Writing (Gaza) (Fall 2012)

Event –Creative Writing Series (Baghdad, Iraq) (Fall 2012)

Event – Maori & Tauiwi Literature Lecture (Wellington, New Zealand) (Fall 2012)

Event – Reading/Q&A with Hisham Matar (Fall 2012)

Upcoming Events

Oct 23, 2:30 pm Guest Author Laura Gellott: Helen Perry Curtis and the European Trip of a Lifetime

Happening Now

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…
A fascinating interview with IWP’s Senior Advisor, professor Peter Nazareth, retired from UI’s English Department in spring 2021, after nearly five decades of teaching.
Word reaches us that poet HU Xudong 胡续冬, who also taught comparative and world literatures at Peking University (Beida), specializing in Latin American literatures, passed away unexpectedly. RIP, Hu Xudong…
We note with sadness the passing of Hiroshi SAKAGAMI 坂上弘, whose long novelistic career garnered him major literary and cultural honors. A former president of the Japan Writers’ Association, he was until his retirement also the director of Keio University Press.
The poetic documentary Songs Still Sung: Voices from the Tsunami Shores, written and co-produced by Takako ARAI and creatively subtitled into English by a class of UI students of Japanese, will be screened at the prestigious Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, on-line 10/7-14/2021.