CSSI Welcomes the Participants of the 2025 Grant Writing Residency Program
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
‘I had this animal, physical desire to be with my child’: author Rachel Yoder on writing Nightbitch
Tuesday, December 3, 2024
UI’s Jamel Brinkley wins Maya Angelou Book Award for 'Witness: Stories'
Friday, November 22, 2024
Latest Writing News
Iowa surpasses Harvard, Princeton as No. 2 for writing
Monday, September 12, 2022
The University of Iowa is the No. 2 university in the country for writing, according to the latest rankings from U.S. News & World Report.
Q&A: What is 'critical race theory,' really? A new book tries to explain
Wednesday, September 7, 2022
Amid a nationwide debate over a once-obscure academic movement, UI Professor Victor Ray offers Americans a primer on its core concepts.
The Feminist Case for Breast Reduction
Friday, May 20, 2022
Melissa Febos, associate professor in Iowa's Nonfiction Writing Program, writes a personal essay about breast reduction surgery.
5 UI faculty receive Iowa Mid-Career Faculty Scholar Awards
Thursday, May 5, 2022
Five University of Iowa faculty members have been selected to receive the inaugural Iowa Mid-Career Faculty Scholar Awards.
Tolbert receives 2022 Goldsmith Book Prize
Thursday, April 21, 2022
Professor and Lowell G. Battershell University Distinguished Chair of Political Science Caroline Tolbert was awarded the 2022 Goldsmith Book Prize in Academics for her book, Choosing the Future: Technology and Opportunity in Communities.
Kelly wins 2022 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in poetry
Wednesday, April 20, 2022
Donika Kelly, assistant professor in the department of English, won the 2022 Anisfield-Wolf book award in poetry with her collection titled The Renunciations.
The Daily Iowan wins awards from Society of Professional Journalists
Monday, April 18, 2022
The Daily Iowan dominated a regional journalism competition run by the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ).
Febos named 2022 Guggenheim Fellow
Wednesday, April 13, 2022
The spring 2022 semester has been quite extraordinary for Melissa Febos, who has won three national awards.
Construction begins on new building for Nonfiction Writing Program
Monday, March 28, 2022
The University of Iowa is bolstering its writing resources in an impressive way as construction began earlier this month on a new building for the renowned Nonfiction Writing Program.
Febos wins prestigious National Book Critics Circle Award
Tuesday, March 22, 2022
Melissa Febos, associate professor in the Nonfiction Writing Program, was named winner of the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism for Girlhood, a collection of essays about the values that shape girls and the women they become.
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