Elementary students get high fives from teachers as they walk into the building on the first day of school on Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025, at Legacy Elementary School in West Fargo.

Nearly a year after the University announced it was phasing out all 23 of the creative writing lecturers over the course of the next two years, the first set of lecturers have said their goodbyes to ...

Applications for the Fall 2025 Writing Mentor Program are now available. Click here for the application. Deadline to apply is Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 12pm. Have you ever wanted a personal ...

Rowan’s Writing Arts department is home to the First-Year Writing Program, a program designed to foster and strengthen the critical reading and writing skills that students need to succeed at the ...

Widely considered to be the Writer’s University, the University of Iowa announced the creation of the Office of Writing and Communication. The new office, announced in July, will absorb many of 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 ...

The University of Iowa is shutting down two summer writing programs, citing continued difficulties with funding.The UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences posted messages online to those involved in ...

The University of Iowa will discontinue the Iowa Youth Writing Project (IYWP) and the Iowa Summer Writing Festival at the end of 2025 due to funding changes. The Iowa Youth Writing Project serves K-12 ...