U ndergraduate writing programs introduce college students to the rhetorical and argumentative structures they will be expected to master during their four years on campus and beyond. Learning the ...

Between the Trump administration's cuts to the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities and the gutting of the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences, federal ...

Every year, Californians throw 2.5 billion meals worth of edible food into landfills, despite the fact that one in five state residents experience food insecurity, according to CalRecycle. But a new ...

Christopher Merrill, longtime director of the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program (IWP), is marking 25 years as director and has announced he will step down at the end of the year.

Nearly a year after the University announced it was phasing out all 23 of the creative writing lecturers over the course of the next two years, the first set of lecturers have said their goodbyes to ...

Starting in autumn quarter 2025, the University will begin a multi-year restructuring of the undergraduate writing program, which had previously run concurrently with the humanities Core sequence.

With so many wild predictions flying around about the future AI, it’s important to occasionally take a step back and check in on what came true — and what hasn’t come to pass. Exactly six months ago, ...

Widely considered to be the Writer’s University, the University of Iowa announced the creation of the Office of Writing and Communication. The new office, announced in July, will absorb many of the ...

Alice Walker. Charles Bukowski. Louise Erdrich. Juan Felipe Herrera. These are just some of the authors who received a Creative Writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts over the ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The Patachou Foundation is rebranding to A Longer Table. Matthew Feltrop is the Executive Director of A Longer Table. He says they changed their name from The Patachou Foundation ...

University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences announced the closure of the almost 40-year-long standing Iowa Summer Writing Festival and Iowa Youth Writing Project. Dean Sara Sanders ...