Iowa Writers' Workshop
Dey House, home of the Iowa Writers' Workshop | |
Other name | University of Iowa Writers' Workshop |
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| Type | MFA degree program |
| Established | 1936 |
| Director | Lan Samantha Chang |
| Students | 90 (Fall 2022) |
| Location | , , United States 41°40′02″N 91°32′06″W / 41.66727°N 91.53502°W |
| Website | writersworkshop |
The Iowa Writers' Workshop, at the University of Iowa, is a graduate-level creative writing program. At 89 years, it is the oldest writing program offering a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree in the United States. Its acceptance rate is between 2.7% and 3.7%. On the university's behalf, the workshop administers the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism and the Iowa Short Fiction Award.
The workshop's director is the writer Lan Samantha Chang, under whom its endowment has grown from $2.6 million to $12.5 million.