Local resources

•  Poet Heather Derr-Smith Invited to Deliver Series of Lectures in Bosnia
•  Poets & Writers Features Article on the Craft of Writing by Benjamin Percy
•  Benjamin Percy Receives 2008 Whiting Writers' Award
•  Christiana Langenberg's Short Story Collection Wins the 2008 Paths of Culture Translation Prize
•  Michele Regenold Receives a P & S Council Recruitment and Retention Grant
•  MFA Program's Mapping Project Featured on ISU Website
•  Graphic Novel Adaptation of Benjamin Percy Short Story, "Refresh, Refresh," Now Published
•  Debra Marquart Honored with 2009 Iowa Author Award
•  Marissa Landrigan Wins the "Flyway Home Voices" Award
•  Keynote Speakers Announced for Sixth Annual Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness & the Creative Imagination
•  National Endowment for the Arts Awards Debra Marquart a 2008 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship
•  PEN USA Awards Debra Marquart the 2007 Creative Nonfiction Award
•  Neil Nakadate and Mary Swander Contribute Work to Anthology, Letters to a Young Iowan
•  Southern Illinois University Publishes an Updated Edition of Neal Bowers’ Words for the Taking: The Hunt for a Plagiarist
•  MFA Graduate Student, Emily Plum Guclu, receives the 2008 Marble Faun Prize
•  Acclaim for Debra Marquart's memoir, The Horizontal World
•  Iowa Poet Laureate Mary Swander's New Book, The Girls on the Roof, Published by Turning Point Press
•  Vida Cross Awarded a Grant from Illinois Arts Council
•  Orion Magazine Features Essay by Marissa Landrigan
•  Mary Swander Named Poet Laureate of State of Iowa
•  New Poets & Writers Magazine Features Article on Writing Dialogue by Benjamin Percy
•  Exam Scheduler
•  Strange As This Weather Has Been: a Fiction Reading by Ann Pancake
•  What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison: a Poetry Reading by Camile Dungy
•  Things Fall Apart: Finding Beauty in a Broken World, 6th Annual Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness & the Creative Imagination
•  The Sky Begins at Your Feet: A Reading and Discussion of Bioregionalism by Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
•  The Early Bear Gets the Goose: Polar Bears, Snow Geese and Climate Change -- 2009 Errington Lecture by Dr. Robert Rockwell
•  5th Annual Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness & the Creative Imagination
•  People I Wanted to Be, a Fiction Reading by Gina Ochsner, 2009 Alumni Recognition Award Honoree
•  Metaphysics of the Blues
•  CREATIVE WRITING AT IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY
•  5th Annual Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness & the Creative Imagination (February, 2009)