June 16 - July 28, 2024
Iowa City, Iowa, United States
Festival
PHONE: 319-335-4160
EMAIL: iswfestival@uiowa.edu
WEBSITE: https://iowasummerwritingfestival.uiowa.edu/
Since 1987, the Iowa Summer Writing Festival has welcomed to the campus of The University of Iowa writers from 18 to 98 years of age, from all 50 states, and from every continent.
The Iowa Summer Writing Festival is back in person in Iowa City in 2024! Join us for workshops in the novel, memoir writing, poetry, travel writing, spiritual writing, and more.
Faculty
Featured Writers Include:
Marilyn Abildskov · Jessica Alexander · Mary Allen · Ren Arcamone · Nancy K. Barry · Timothy Bascom · Anna Bruno · Jennifer Colville · Kelly Dwyer · Mieke Eerkens · Hugh Ferrer · Patricia Foster · Diana Goetsch · Eric Goodman · Sands Hall · Robin Hemley · Christine Hemp · Charles Holdefer · Wayne Johnson · Jared Joseph · Jennifer L. Knox · Afabwaje Kurian · Malinda McCollum · Madeline McDonnell · James McKean · June Melby · Amanda Montei · Michael Morse · Vi Khi Nao · Marc Nieson · Caryl Pagel · Kathleen Maris Paltrineri · Rachel Pastan · Juliet Patterson · Sarah Saffian · Zach Savich · Suzanne Scanlon · Leslie Schwartz · Robert Anthony Siegel · Carol Spindel · Zoe Tuck · Anthony Varallo · Bart Yates
Genres
Poetry, Fiction, Creative nonfiction
Iowa City
Location
Iowa, United States
Iowa Summer Writing Festival
Since 1987, the Iowa Summer Writing Festival has welcomed to the campus of The University of Iowa writers from 18 to 98 years of age, from all 50 states, and from every continent. Most of us come to the workshop table from other areas of expertise, other lives. These include the armed forces, business, diplomacy, education, farming, homemaking, journalism, law, law enforcement, medicine, parenting, pastoral care, the performing arts, social services, and more. We come together across the genres, the generations, and at every level of literary practice in a common enterprise. We come as writers. This is the only assumption we make about each other, whether we arrive here with the third draft of our novel, a message in a bottle, or merely a bee in our bonnet.
The Festival is proud to belong to Iowa City—a UNESCO City of Literature in the Creative Cities Network. Iowa City has long been a haven for writers, and The University of Iowa our ancestral home.
The 2024 Festival on campus takes place June 16 - July 28. Register now! Online workshops will resume in Fall/Winter 2024.
