Past Digital Learning Programming

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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

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

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

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

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

2016

#Flashwrite Teen Poetry MOOC (MOOC, Spring 2016)

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

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

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

2015

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

How Writers Write Poetry 2015 (MOOC, Spring 2015)

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

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

Narrative Witness: Indigenous Peoples, Australia-North America (Exchange, Fall 2015)

How Writers Write Fiction 2015 (MOOC, Fall 2015)

2014

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

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

How Writers Write Poetry 2014 (MOOC, Summer 2014)

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

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

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

How Writers Write Fiction 2014 (MOOC, Fall 2014)

2013

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2012

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

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

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

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

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Happening Now

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.)