Iowa Young Writers' Studio for high school students now a Magid Center youth program

Thursday, July 7, 2016

The Iowa Young Writers’ Studio is now administratively considered a "youth program" of the Frank N. Magid Center for Undergraduate Writing in the Division of Interdisciplinary Programs. This means the program will be part of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences rather than University College, effective April 1.

The Iowa Young Writers’ Studio is a residential creative writing program for high school students offered during summer at the University of Iowa. Students in the program build a community of peers while working with experienced writing teachers, primarily students and graduates of the University’s M.F.A. program in creative writing.

The studio offers three courses of study: poetry, fiction, and creative writing (a mix of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction). Each course consists of a seminar and a workshop. In seminars, students read literature by established writers. In workshops they share their own writing, get feedback from their classmates and teacher, and discuss issues of narrative and form.

The University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences offers about 70 majors across the humanities; fine, performing and literary arts; natural and mathematical sciences; social and behavioral sciences; and communication disciplines. About 15,000 undergraduate and nearly 2,000 graduate students study each year in the college’s 37 departments, led by faculty at the forefront of teaching and research in their disciplines. The college teaches all Iowa undergraduates through the college's general education program, CLAS CORE. About 80 percent of all Iowa undergraduates begin their academic journey in CLAS. The college confers about 60 percent of the university's bachelor's degrees each academic year.