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 ...

On Friday afternoon, writers who applied for the National Endowment for the Arts’ 2026 Creative Writing Fellowships received an email from the NEA saying that the program had been canceled. The annual ...

IWP Director Christopher Merrill makes an opening speech at the 55th International Writing Program anniversary exhibit at the University of Iowa Library, Sept. 8, 2022. After a two-year hiatus due to ...