I hope everyone is staying warm! We will be holding THREE virtual readings this spring, with the first happening this coming Tuesday, February 23 at… Read More
Saturday’s Child Press has chosen Christiana Langenberg’s story “Maybe It’s a Wednesday” as the $1,000 1st place winner of its Fiction Contest. The editor stated, “This… Read More
Rachel Mans McKenny and Denise Williams are speaking at a student-centered event on October 30th (via Webex) on the process of publishing a novel —… Read More
We will be holding THREE virtual readings for the Emerging Writers Reading Series this semester. The first reading will be held on Thursday, September 17… Read More
Dr. Charissa Menefee is a 2020/2021 EST/Sloan Project Commission Recipient for her work Iowa Enemy. “Off-Broadway’s Ensemble Studio Theatre, in collaboration with The Alfred P. Read More
Your One Wild & Precious Life — MFA Creative Writing & Environment Faculty Reading Part of The Pearl Hogrefe Visiting Writer Series 2019-2020 The MFA… Read More
Sheryl St. Germain — Songs for a Son: On Lyricism, Addiction, and Recovery Part of The Pearl Hogrefe Visiting Writer Series 2019-2020 Sheryl St. Germain… Read More
Part of The Pearl Hogrefe Visiting Writer Series 2019-2020 Author and environmental activist, Rick Bass is the author of over two dozen books of fiction and… Read More
Christiana Langenberg won the 2019 Barry Lopez Nonfiction Award for her essay “Solve for Ex.” (a nonlinear essay about atypical grief). The news is now… Read More
Lakeside Lab, a 147-acre regents universities research and teaching field station on Lake Okoboji in northwest Iowa, hosted the English Department’s MFA Program in Creative… Read More
Environmental Martyrs and the Fate of the Forest Rob Nixon is a nonfiction writer and public intellectual working in the environmental humanities and postcolonial studies. Read More
In this lecture, Kristen Iversen will read from and discuss her process of researching her award-winning work of nonfiction, Full Body Burden: Growing Up… Read More
The Pearl Hogrefe Visiting Writer Series is partnering with the to feature two invited poets, Lee Ann Roripaugh & Indigo Moor, for events on Friday,… Read More
Professor Debra Marquart received the 2019-2020 Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean’s Faculty Fellow in the Arts. This award is designed to further enhance the visibility… Read More
Sarah Burke (2013) was recently awarded the Cider Press Review Editors’ Prize for her poetry collection, “Blueprints.” The manuscript was Sarah’s thesis when she… Read More
