Why Iowa?

Immerse yourself in the world of literature, books, and creative writing–in a college and community obsessed with the written word.

Learn More

Build a foundation

Expand your horizons

Learn from experts

See yourself here

Make Iowa City, the first UNESCO City of Literature in the United States, your new home, and join our community of nationally respected professors and award-winning writers.

Visit

Write Your Story

Join a top university in the country for writing with one of our English and English and Creative Writing programs, or our Nonfiction Writing Program, one of the oldest nonfiction programs in the nation.

Apply

Upcoming events

"The Novel in a Time of Textpocalypse": a lecture by Dan Sinykin promotional image

"The Novel in a Time of Textpocalypse": a lecture by Dan Sinykin

Thursday, November 5, 2026 4:00pm
English-Philosophy Building

Dan Sinykin is the author of American Literature and the Long Downturn: Neoliberal Apocalypse (Oxford 2020), Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature (Columbia 2023), and, with Johanna Winant, Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century (Princeton 2025). He is working on a manuscript about the rise of, and alternatives to, Zionism in the Pale of Settlement. His talk will be titled "The Novel in a Time of Textpocalypse."

VIEWS Presents: Chanelle Benz Reading & Q&A promotional image

VIEWS Presents: Chanelle Benz Reading & Q&A

Thursday, November 5, 2026 7:00pm to 8:00pm
English-Philosophy Building
Hannah Bonner in conversation with Louisa Hall promotional image

Hannah Bonner in conversation with Louisa Hall

Tuesday, November 10, 2026 7:00pm to 8:00pm
Prairie Lights Books
Nonfiction Writing Program Alumna Hannah Bonner (MFA '24) reads from her latest book
More English Events

Associated events