The Masters of Fine Arts in Literary Translation at the University of Iowa is one of only a handful of similar programs worldwide. A key facet, the 60-year-old UI Translation Workshop, predates the MFA program by a decade. Boasting the […]
Since the Southeast Asian country of Myanmar (Burma) had its most recent military coup d’etat on February 1, 2021, preventing the leaders elected last November from being sworn in, over 700 citizens have been killed, nearly one-third of its schoolteachers […]
Bourdain died by suicide on June 8 of this year, leaving us — his restaurant kin, writers, travelers, chefs and eaters — to celebrate him, and to continue to celebrate other cultures, with our own meals, travels and words. It is in this celebratory vein that Gabe Branch, chef de cuisine at St. Burch Tavern, will collaborate with four writers from the University of Iowa International Writing Program for a Parts Unknown tribute dinner, part of the lineup for this year’s Witching Hour festival. […]
Argentina is living in a moment of social fracture. Society is pushed by the public discourse to take a side, and people have lost the ability to debate: it all turns into big fights about whether you believe one version of the truth or the opposite.
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Residents of the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program are given once-a-week access to the community kitchen at Public Space One for the cooking of meals and sharing of cultural cuisines. […]
¿Qué sucede cuando, en efecto, nadie te persigue? ¿Cómo te explicas el contraste generado entre la vida real que te espera al volver y este idilio en el Norte de todo? / What happens when there’s in fact no one persecuting you? How do you explain the contrast between the real life that awaits you when you return and this idyll in the North with everything? […]
Reading for Ashraf Fayadh Shambaugh House — Thursday, January 14 at Noon As part of an initiative sponsored by the International Literature Festival Berlin, the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program (IWP) will be hosting a reading in support of […]
Alisa Ganieva’s career as a fiction writer began in 2009 when her story, “Salam, Dalgat!” won Russia’s Debut Literary Prize. Written under a male pseudonym… […]
High Grounds Café will play host to an open mic night tonight featuring young writers, aged 16 to 19, from around the world. The event will be the first of its kind — a collaborative… […]
On March 10, 2015, across 8,500 miles and two oceans, theaters in Iowa City and Cape Town will host a special cross-cultural theater collaboration with the…
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Writers in residence at the UI’s International Writing Program (IWP) will speak about their three-month stay in Iowa City this Friday, Oct. 31 at an event… […]
The International Writing program presents Opium War tonight at 7:30 on campus in room E105 of the Adler Journalism Building. The film is being shown as part of Cinematheque, a series of films curated by the visiting writers of the […]
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