City of Literature Paul Engle Prize - Iowa City UNESCO.

The annual Paul Engle Prize from the Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature honors an individual who, like Paul Engle, represents a pioneering spirit in the world of literature through writing, editing, publishing, or teaching, and whose active participation in the larger issues of the day has contributed to the betterment of the world through the literary arts.

She received her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 1984 and was awarded the Loess Hills Poetry Award for her collection, In Divided Light (Mid-Prairie Books), in 1999. She occasionally teaches at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival and reviews poetry for the Boston Review.

Matthew Lansburgh’s book, Outside Is the Ocean, winner of the 2017 Iowa Short Fiction Award, was chosen as a finalist for both the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction and as a finalist for the 2018 Ferro-Grumley Literary Award for LGBTQ Fiction.

The Iowa Poetry Prize, open to new as well as established poets, is awarded for a book-length collection of poems written originally in English. Previous winners, current University of Iowa students, and current and former University of Iowa Press employees are not eligible. Manuscript. Manuscripts should be 50 to 150 pages in length.

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Bethany Schultz Hurst is the author of Miss Lost Nation, winner of the Anhinga Poetry Prize and finalist for the 2016 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry 2015 and in journals such as Ecotone, The Gettysburg Review, Gulf Coast, Narrative, and Ploughshares. A recent recipient of a literary arts fellowship.

An ISU English professor recently received a Faulkner award for a non-fiction essay that was conceptualized during a visit to Alaska.

The University of Iowa Press is a university press that is part of the University of Iowa. Established in 1969, the University of Iowa Press is an academic publisher of poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction.The UI Press is the only university press in Iowa, also dedicated to the preservation of literature, history, culture, wildlife, and natural areas of the Midwest.

Alumni from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop won an exceptional number of national literary awards in this year’s awards season. The novels of three alumni in particular—Adam Haslett, Garth Greenwell, and Yaa Gyasi—received numerous honors. Workshop director Lan Samantha Chang says alumni were heavily represented in all categories of literary award.

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His writing in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry is in many anthologies, including The Pushcart Prize (Pushcart Press), American Fiction (New Rivers Press), Flash Fiction and Flash Fiction Forward (W.W. Norton), Blink and Blink Again (Spout Press), Townships (University of Iowa Press), and Not Normal, Illinois (Indiana U. Press), and in the craft.