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.[1] At 87 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%[2] and 3.7%.[3] On the university's behalf, the workshop administers the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism and the Iowa Short Fiction Award.
The workshop's current director is the writer Lan Samantha Chang,[4] under whom its endowment has grown from $2.6 million to $12.5 million.[5]