International Writing Program participant Leopoldo Brizuela reads an excerpt of his novel Red Moon, and International Writing Program participant Matthias Göritz reads a selection of poems. Writers' Workshop student Anne O'Reilly reads a short...
Deirdra McAfee grew up in Sigourney, a town named for one of nineteenth-century America's most famous poets. McAfee's stories have appeared in Confrontation, Willow Springs, The Seattle Review, The Baltimore Review, The Diagram, and others. She...
Robert Boswell is the author of six novels - including Century's Son, Mystery Ride, and Crooked Hearts - a play, a cyberpunk novel, and two nonfiction books. He has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and...
One of 18 scrapbooks on Wood's career, containing letters, postcards, photographs, clippings, and miscellany; compiled by Nan Wood Graham, sister of Grant Wood.
In this Eleventh Hour, Karen Bender addresses a strategy that she found helpful while writing her first novel—finding a short excerpt within it and polishing it to send out. She discusses the differences between a story and a novel, what to look...
This reading was organized in conjunction with the national grassroots movement Poets Against the war (www.poetsagainstthewar.org) and features poets associated with the Writers' Workshop and the International Writing Program. Marvin Bell...
Librarian and UI alumna Esther Walls was elected director of the United States Secretariat for the International Book Year 1972. In this capacity, she coordinated the activities of the U.S. Secretariat, an agency established to promote the United...