The Magid Center is pleased to announce novelist and editor Angie Cruz as our 2022-2023 Visiting Writer-in-Residence! Cruz will be on campus October 5th-8th and will participate in a public reading at Prairie Lights (5:30pm, Oct. 6th) and a Q&A at the Dey House (10:30am, Oct. 7th).

Out of over 950 entrants, Daniel Khalastchi has been selected as the winner of the Brittingham Prize in Poetry and his third poetry collection, AMERCIAN PARABLES, will be published this fall by the University of Wisconsin Press. Khalastchi is the author of two previous collections of poetry, MANOLERIA (Tupelo Press) and TRADITION (McSweeneys).

"We will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends." - MLK, Jr 2021 Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration of Human Rights is Sunday, Monday, January 25th through Sunday, January 31. Please visit the https://mlk.uiowa.edu/ to see events and activities.

The Magid Center for Undergraduate Writing hosted Jia Tolentino as the 2019-2020 Visiting Writer-in-Residence.  Jia is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of the critically acclaimed essay collection Trick Mirror (recently named one of the most notable books of the year by The New York Times and a finalist for the National Book Critic Circle's prize for best first book). Formerly, she was the deputy editor of Jezebel and contributing editor at The Hairpin.

The Magid Center for Writing is pleased to present its 2018-2019 Annual Report, available as a downloadable PDF.

The Iowa Chapbook Prize was featured on Daily Iowan TV (DITV) ahead of the 2019 Iowa Chapbook Prize Reading and Reception on Saturday, May 4, 2019 at 5pm at Prairie Lights.

Writing Certificate student Skye Corken has had her first piece of writing published. She wrote an article for the University of Iowa College of Public Health on alumna Carolyne Bennett's work with the CDC. We are extremely proud of her and wish her further success in writing!

The Big Ten Network recently published an article and began airing a commercial about the Iowa Youth Writing Project, part of the Magid Center for Undergraduate Writing. The IYWP does great work in our community, helping K-12 students find their voices through creative writing.

The Nation is accepting applications for two Student Writing Fellows. This year-long program will give two college students the opportunity to regularly write for TheNation.com and to work with Nation staff members to sharpen the skills needed for a successful career in journalism.