Iowa Writers Workshop

She was an inmate. I was a suburbanite. We were never supposed to be friends.

Joan Gelman | Posted 04.09.2012

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Joan Gelman

She was an inmate. I was a suburbanite. We were never supposed to be friends.

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Why You Should Reject The 'New Rules For Writers'

Andrew Shaffer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Andrew Shaffer

There's a virus going around the Internet right now that threatens to change the way you look at the world. And it seems to be infecting unpublished and "under-published" writers.

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Tom Grimes's "The Leash": Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature

Posted 05.25.2011

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Narrative Magazine: Tom Grimes, author of the newly released Mentor: A Memoir which traces his long friendship with legendary Iowa Writers' Workshop d...

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The Poetry of Michael Tyrell

Ben Evans | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ben Evans

To capture the voice of a city as immense and diverse as New York, to write its essence, is a challenge taken on by many resident literati.

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Writer Wednesday: 11 Of The Best MFA Writing Programs (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

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Each Wednesday, Twitter users celebrate writing with the hashtag #writerwednesday, usually used to suggest new writers to follow. We've been expanding...

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Poetry And Food

Posted 05.25.2011

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My Dinner with Dubie: Secrets from the Iowa Writers' Workshop Cookbook Matthew Gavin Frank The Poetry Foundation Recently my wife, Louisa, and I...

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Iowa Writers' Workshop Graduate Spills It All: Interview with John McNally, Author of "After the Workshop"

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011

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Anis Shivani

I thought McNally, because he has experienced the Iowa Writers' Workshop firsthand--and lived to tell the funniest tale ever written about it--would be an ideal subject to interview about a lot of concerns in the writing and publishing industries.

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