Iowa Writer's Workshop

The Iowa Writers' Workshop, at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, is a famous graduate-level creative writing program in the United States. Its official name is the Program in Creative Writing. 

Students can earn a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree in Creative Writing. This lets them teach Creative Writing at other colleges and universities. Because the program is also a workshop, students talk about their writing with each other and their teachers.

It is the oldest MFA writing program in America. It was started in 1936. Many successful writers have studied in this program. Some of its earliest teachers and visiting writers were Robert Frost, Robert Penn Warren, John Berryman, Dylan Thomas, and Robert Lowell.

Many teachers and students from the program have won Pulitzer Prizes in Fiction and Poetry. Some of them are:

John Berryman; 1965, 77 Dream Songs
John Cheever: 1979,The Stories of John Cheever
Rita Dove: 1987, Thomas and Beulah
Louise Glück: 1993, The Dream of the Unified Field
Donald R. Justice: 1980, Selected Poems
Carolyn Kizer: 1985, Yin
Philip Levine: 1995, The Simple Truth
Robert Lowell: 1947, Lord Weary's Castle; 1974, The Dolphin
James Alan McPherson: 1978, Elbow Room
Marilynne Robinson: 2005, Gilead
Philip Roth: 1998. American Pastoral
W.D. Snodgrass: 1960, Heart's Needle
Mark Strand: 1999, Blizzard of One
James Tate: 1992, Selected Poems
Mona Van Duyn: 1991, Near Changes
Charles Wright: 1998, Black Zodiac
Michael Cunningham 1999 The Hours 
Mark Strand 1999 Blizzard of One 
Nilo Cruz 2003 Anna in the Tropics   
Marilynne Robinson 2005 Gilead  
Robert Hass 2008 Time and Materials   
Philip Schultz 2008 Failure
David Lang 2008 The Little Match Girl Passion   
Paul Harding 2010 Tinkers        
Andrew Sean Greer 2018 Less   
Forrest Gander 2019 Be With  
Jayne Anne Phillips 2024 Night Watch          
Robert Penn Warren: 1947, All the King's Men; 1958, Promises: Poems 1954-1956; 1979, Now and Then

References

Category:Colleges and universities in Iowa
Category:Writing
Category:Education in the United States
Category:Iowa City, Iowa