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"I love experimenting with and blending different forms of art and genres. So you'll find theatrical elements in my audiovisual works and multimedia elements in my stage works." 5Q Interview @uiiwp.bsky.social resident Hyukin Michaela KWON, South Korea!
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5Q Interview: Hyukin Michaela KWON, IWP Resident from South Korea
"I love experimenting with and blending different forms of art and genres. So you'll find theatrical elements in my audiovisual works and multimedia elements in my stage works."
writinguniversity.uiowa.edu
September 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
"I love experimenting with and blending different forms of art and genres. So you'll find theatrical elements in my audiovisual works and multimedia elements in my stage works." 5Q Interview @uiiwp.bsky.social resident Hyukin Michaela KWON, South Korea!
writinguniversity.uiowa.edu/news-archive...
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New 5Q interview w/ U Iowa Press author Andrew Brininstool about his book *High Desert Blood*. "As macabre as it may sound, I spent countless days listening to [my family] discuss—the riot in particular: who they knew, what had happened, theories about why." 🏜 writinguniversity.org/news-archive...
5Q Interview: University of Iowa Press Author Andrew Brininstool
"As macabre as it may sound, I spent countless days listening to them discuss true crime, the criminal justice system—and the riot in particular: who they knew, what had happened, theories about why."
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August 8, 2025 at 7:24 PM
New 5Q interview w/ U Iowa Press author Andrew Brininstool about his book *High Desert Blood*. "As macabre as it may sound, I spent countless days listening to [my family] discuss—the riot in particular: who they knew, what had happened, theories about why." 🏜 writinguniversity.org/news-archive...
New 5Q interview w/ University of Iowa Press author Darrell Kinsey about his book Natch! "The novel covers the brief and tragic episode of their relationship, their hardscrabble existence and their attempt to start a family." writinguniversity.org/news-archive...
5Q Interview: University of Iowa Press Author Darrell Kinsey
"The novel covers the brief and tragic episode of their relationship, their hardscrabble existence and their attempt to start a family."
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July 28, 2025 at 4:50 PM
New 5Q interview w/ University of Iowa Press author Darrell Kinsey about his book Natch! "The novel covers the brief and tragic episode of their relationship, their hardscrabble existence and their attempt to start a family." writinguniversity.org/news-archive...
Big news! The University of Iowa is establishing an Office of Writing and Communication! In a significant step that builds on one of Iowa's most distinctive strengths, the new office will unify, amplify and expand our rich writing legacy!
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UI to establish Office of Writing and Communication
In a significant step that builds on one of its most distinctive strengths, the University of Iowa will establish the Office of Writing and Communication (OWC) to unify, amplify, and expand the univer...
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July 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Big news! The University of Iowa is establishing an Office of Writing and Communication! In a significant step that builds on one of Iowa's most distinctive strengths, the new office will unify, amplify and expand our rich writing legacy!
now.uiowa.edu/news/2025/07...
now.uiowa.edu/news/2025/07...
"I found inspiration for this book through my own process of sitting in spaces of ambivalence over the question of whether or not to mother." New 5Q interview w/ @UIowaPress author Mackenzie Kozak about her book 'no swaddle,' read it here! writinguniversity.org/news-archive...
5Q Interview: University of Iowa Press Author Mackenzie Kozak
"I found inspiration for this book through my own process of sitting in spaces of ambivalence over the question of whether or not to mother."
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July 16, 2025 at 3:46 PM
"I found inspiration for this book through my own process of sitting in spaces of ambivalence over the question of whether or not to mother." New 5Q interview w/ @UIowaPress author Mackenzie Kozak about her book 'no swaddle,' read it here! writinguniversity.org/news-archive...
New 5Q interview w/ Screenwriting BA student Damon Gray: "I love how the university's campus is integrated into downtown. When I noticed this during my orientation, it made everything so much more lively." 💛🖤 @uiowa writinguniversity.org/news-archive...
5Q Interview: Damon Gray, current student in the Screenwriting Arts BA Program
"I love how the university's campus is integrated into downtown. When I noticed this during my orientation, it made everything so much more lively."
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June 26, 2025 at 4:44 PM
New 5Q interview w/ Screenwriting BA student Damon Gray: "I love how the university's campus is integrated into downtown. When I noticed this during my orientation, it made everything so much more lively." 💛🖤 @uiowa writinguniversity.org/news-archive...
5Q interview w/ @ISWFestival instructor William Pei Shih! "I’ve been teaching a course called the Award-Winning Short Story ... studying some of the guidelines of what might make a story stand out." Check out his upcoming course! @MagidWriting writinguniversity.org/news-archive...
5Q Interview: William Pei Shih, instructor at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival
"If you can make a single sentence do the work of 3 sentences or a paragraph—then, you’ve probably written a compelling sentence. In flash every word communicates."
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June 20, 2025 at 6:11 PM
5Q interview w/ @ISWFestival instructor William Pei Shih! "I’ve been teaching a course called the Award-Winning Short Story ... studying some of the guidelines of what might make a story stand out." Check out his upcoming course! @MagidWriting writinguniversity.org/news-archive...
5Q interview w/ University of Iowa Press author Tom Mitchell on his new book 'Early Stories by Tennessee Williams': "As editor, I gathered the stories from collections of Williams works at the University of Texas and Harvard University." 💛🖤 @uiowa writinguniversity.org/news-archive...
5Q Interview: University of Iowa Press Author Tom Mitchell
"As editor, I gathered the stories from collections of Williams works at the University of Texas and Harvard University. The process of editing included sifting through Williams’s original notes and r...
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June 20, 2025 at 5:24 PM
5Q interview w/ University of Iowa Press author Tom Mitchell on his new book 'Early Stories by Tennessee Williams': "As editor, I gathered the stories from collections of Williams works at the University of Texas and Harvard University." 💛🖤 @uiowa writinguniversity.org/news-archive...
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5Q Interview: University of Iowa Press Author Aidan Ryan
"I gave Cindy's eulogy—I was 18 years old—and the job never quite felt finished."
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June 2, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I did 5 Qs with @writinguiowa.bsky.social - read it here: writinguniversity.org/news-archive...
New 5Q interview w/ University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program graduate Stephanie Krzywonos: "I am not a daily writer. I am a marathon writer. I prefer large, uninterrupted chunks of time to fully immerse myself and get into a flow." 💛🖤 @uiowa writinguniversity.org/news-archive...
5Q Interview: Stephanie Krzywonos, graduate of the Nonfiction Writing Program
"I am not a daily writer. I am a marathon writer. I prefer large, uninterrupted chunks of time to fully immerse myself and get into a flow."
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June 18, 2025 at 6:18 PM
New 5Q interview w/ University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program graduate Stephanie Krzywonos: "I am not a daily writer. I am a marathon writer. I prefer large, uninterrupted chunks of time to fully immerse myself and get into a flow." 💛🖤 @uiowa writinguniversity.org/news-archive...
"I gave Cindy's eulogy—I was 18 years old—and the job never quite felt finished." New 5Q interview w/ University of Iowa Press author Aidan Ryan and his new book 'I Am Here You Are Not I Love You,' about visual artists Andrew Topolski and Cindy Suffoletto. 💛🖤 writinguniversity.org/news-archive...
5Q Interview: University of Iowa Press Author Aidan Ryan
"I gave Cindy's eulogy—I was 18 years old—and the job never quite felt finished."
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June 2, 2025 at 5:26 PM
"I gave Cindy's eulogy—I was 18 years old—and the job never quite felt finished." New 5Q interview w/ University of Iowa Press author Aidan Ryan and his new book 'I Am Here You Are Not I Love You,' about visual artists Andrew Topolski and Cindy Suffoletto. 💛🖤 writinguniversity.org/news-archive...
Iowa Writers' Workshop alum Ben Shattuck (MFA, 2013) has adapted his own short story, The History of Sound, into a film that will premier at Cannes, staring Paul Mescal! Congrats Ben! www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...
In ‘The History of Sound,’ Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor’s Tender Romance Defines a Complex Life
An exclusive look at this sweeping, decades-spanning historical drama. “It’s not just about sex and the intensity of falling in love. It’s deeper than that,” Mescal says.
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May 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Iowa Writers' Workshop alum Ben Shattuck (MFA, 2013) has adapted his own short story, The History of Sound, into a film that will premier at Cannes, staring Paul Mescal! Congrats Ben! www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...
"Giving myself permission to experiment with something new—like writing an essay in the form of dictionary entries—is so exciting and invigorating." New 5Q interview w/ Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program MFA candidate Bethany Kaylor! 💛 writinguniversity.org/news-archive...
5Q Interview: Bethany Kaylor, MFA candidate in the Nonfiction Writing Program
"Giving myself permission to experiment with something new—like writing an essay in the form of dictionary entries modeled after Bob Flanagan's The Book of Medicine—is so exciting and invigorating."
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May 15, 2025 at 3:44 PM
"Giving myself permission to experiment with something new—like writing an essay in the form of dictionary entries—is so exciting and invigorating." New 5Q interview w/ Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program MFA candidate Bethany Kaylor! 💛 writinguniversity.org/news-archive...
"I knew in high school that I wanted to study Cinema and Screenwriting, so I was looking for a university with a rigorous writing program, in a location that would foster my love for art." New 5Q interview w/ @uiowa Cinema & Screenwriting undergrad Connor French writinguniversity.org/news-archive...
5Q Interview: Connor French, Undergrauate in Cinema and Screenwriting Arts
"I knew in high school that I wanted to study Cinema and Screenwriting, so I was looking for a university with a rigorous writing program, in a location that would foster my love for art."
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May 5, 2025 at 3:45 PM
"I knew in high school that I wanted to study Cinema and Screenwriting, so I was looking for a university with a rigorous writing program, in a location that would foster my love for art." New 5Q interview w/ @uiowa Cinema & Screenwriting undergrad Connor French writinguniversity.org/news-archive...
New 5Q interview w/ University of Iowa Literary Translation MFA candidate Emma Athena Murray: "I was thrilled to come to the University of Iowa and join the awesomely diverse writing communities here (poets! novelists! essayists! comic writers!)" 💛🖤 writinguniversity.org/news-archive...
5Q Interview: Emma Athena Murray, MFA Candidate in Literary Translation
"I was thrilled to come to the University of Iowa and join the awesomely diverse writing communities here (poets! novelists! essayists! comic writers!)"
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April 30, 2025 at 2:53 PM
New 5Q interview w/ University of Iowa Literary Translation MFA candidate Emma Athena Murray: "I was thrilled to come to the University of Iowa and join the awesomely diverse writing communities here (poets! novelists! essayists! comic writers!)" 💛🖤 writinguniversity.org/news-archive...
"Being able to create art or write about something that directly relates to the world around me currently makes me feel like I have a special place in history." New 5Q interview w/ Kendin Scheitlin, University of Iowa Undergraduate majoring in Cinema! 💛 writinguniversity.org/news-archive...
5Q Interview: Kendin Scheitlin, a UI Undergraduate Majoring in Cinema
"Being able to create art or write about something that directly relates to the world around me currently makes me feel like I have a special place in history."
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April 24, 2025 at 8:32 PM
"Being able to create art or write about something that directly relates to the world around me currently makes me feel like I have a special place in history." New 5Q interview w/ Kendin Scheitlin, University of Iowa Undergraduate majoring in Cinema! 💛 writinguniversity.org/news-archive...
New episode from Sad Me of the Past podcast, w/ writer Madeline McDonnell! She shares with us an early short story she wrote about a tiki bar waitress, as well as true tales of playing a Jack-o-lantern in a 3rd grade play with Mindy Kaling! @uiowa @MagidWriting writinguniversity.org/news-archive...
Sad Me of the Past // Episode 14: Madeline McDonnell
On this episode, author Madeline McDonnell shares all sorts of secrets with us from being admonished in Middle English, reading in trees, dramatic countdowns to playing an evil Jack-o-lantern in a 3rd...
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April 21, 2025 at 5:56 PM
New episode from Sad Me of the Past podcast, w/ writer Madeline McDonnell! She shares with us an early short story she wrote about a tiki bar waitress, as well as true tales of playing a Jack-o-lantern in a 3rd grade play with Mindy Kaling! @uiowa @MagidWriting writinguniversity.org/news-archive...
New 5Q interview w/ Translation Workshop MFA candidate Miharu Yano: "Translation is a craft that requires a lot of discipline and focus, and I usually try to find large chunks of time (4+ hours) rather than small increments." 💛🖤 writinguniversity.org/news-archive...
5Q Interview: Miharu Yano, MFA candidate in the Translation Workshop
"Translation is a craft that requires a lot of discipline and focus, and I usually try to find large chunks of time (4+ hours) rather than small increments."
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April 21, 2025 at 4:08 PM
New 5Q interview w/ Translation Workshop MFA candidate Miharu Yano: "Translation is a craft that requires a lot of discipline and focus, and I usually try to find large chunks of time (4+ hours) rather than small increments." 💛🖤 writinguniversity.org/news-archive...
New 5Q interview w/ @uiowa MFA candidate in the Literary Translation, Fion Tse! "For me, the biggest source of inspiration for any translation project I’m working on is the source text itself! Translation forces you to read intimately..." writinguniversity.org/news-archive...
5Q Interview: Fion Tse, MFA candidate in the Literary Translation
"For me, the biggest source of inspiration for any translation project I’m working on is the source text itself! Translation forces you to read intimately, and you have to be quite intimate to rewrite...
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April 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
New 5Q interview w/ @uiowa MFA candidate in the Literary Translation, Fion Tse! "For me, the biggest source of inspiration for any translation project I’m working on is the source text itself! Translation forces you to read intimately..." writinguniversity.org/news-archive...
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"'Of all the institutions that the tribes deal with, the University of Iowa has served as the template for how you do it right,' Wanatee Buffalo said."
"Since 1976, Doershuk said his office has documented the repatriation and reburial of more than 2,000 individuals..." | tinyurl.com/22mf6pfy 🏺
"Since 1976, Doershuk said his office has documented the repatriation and reburial of more than 2,000 individuals..." | tinyurl.com/22mf6pfy 🏺
UI praised by tribal leaders for repatriation work and collaboration
More than three decades after the passage of a federal law mandating the return of Native American remains, the University of Iowa has emerged as a national leader — making nearly all of its holdings ...
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April 16, 2025 at 1:13 PM
"'Of all the institutions that the tribes deal with, the University of Iowa has served as the template for how you do it right,' Wanatee Buffalo said."
"Since 1976, Doershuk said his office has documented the repatriation and reburial of more than 2,000 individuals..." | tinyurl.com/22mf6pfy 🏺
"Since 1976, Doershuk said his office has documented the repatriation and reburial of more than 2,000 individuals..." | tinyurl.com/22mf6pfy 🏺
New 5Q interview w/ University of Iowa Cinema Arts student Lydia Meth! "...the entire city seemed to glow and support its students. I fell in love with the literary walk downtown and the numerous cafes that undoubtedly housed so many aspiring writers." 💛🖤 writinguniversity.org/news-archive...
5Q Interview: Lydia Meth, Cinematic and Screenwriting Arts
"...the entire city seemed to glow and support its students. I fell in love with the literary walk downtown and the numerous cafes that undoubtedly housed so many aspiring writers."
writinguniversity.org
April 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
New 5Q interview w/ University of Iowa Cinema Arts student Lydia Meth! "...the entire city seemed to glow and support its students. I fell in love with the literary walk downtown and the numerous cafes that undoubtedly housed so many aspiring writers." 💛🖤 writinguniversity.org/news-archive...
New 5Q interview w/ University of Iowa Cinema Arts student Lydia Meth! "...the entire city seemed to glow and support its students. I fell in love with the literary walk downtown and the numerous cafes that undoubtedly housed so many aspiring writers." 💛🖤 writinguniversity.org/news-archive...
5Q Interview: Lydia Meth, Cinematic and Screenwriting Arts
"...the entire city seemed to glow and support its students. I fell in love with the literary walk downtown and the numerous cafes that undoubtedly housed so many aspiring writers."
writinguniversity.org
April 14, 2025 at 4:52 PM
New 5Q interview w/ University of Iowa Cinema Arts student Lydia Meth! "...the entire city seemed to glow and support its students. I fell in love with the literary walk downtown and the numerous cafes that undoubtedly housed so many aspiring writers." 💛🖤 writinguniversity.org/news-archive...
New 5Q interview w/@uiowa Spanish Creative Writing MFA candidate Alan Valdez! "And then I wake up, open the windows, make my coffee, think about places I’ve been and people I’ve loved. I send good morning messages, sometimes I teach Spanish classes..." writinguniversity.org/news-archive...
5Q Interview: Alan Valdez, MFA Candidate at the Spanish Creative Writing Program
"And then I wake up, open the windows, make my coffee, think about places I’ve been and people I’ve loved. I send good morning messages, sometimes I teach Spanish classes, sometimes I go to the store ...
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April 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM
New 5Q interview w/@uiowa Spanish Creative Writing MFA candidate Alan Valdez! "And then I wake up, open the windows, make my coffee, think about places I’ve been and people I’ve loved. I send good morning messages, sometimes I teach Spanish classes..." writinguniversity.org/news-archive...
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Today is #1DayForIowa, the University of Iowa's annual online giving day and celebration, and the IWP needs your help! Our recent loss of State Department funding makes every donation especially important. You can donate at 1dayforiowa.org/IWP-25!
March 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Today is #1DayForIowa, the University of Iowa's annual online giving day and celebration, and the IWP needs your help! Our recent loss of State Department funding makes every donation especially important. You can donate at 1dayforiowa.org/IWP-25!