![]() Harvard Law School has an acceptance rate of 12.9%, and Juilliard accepts around 7% of its applicants. It’s safe to assume that Iowa usually gets many applications, over a thousand each year, for 25 slots in Fiction and 25 slots in Poetry. That number seems generous, given data from the years 2013-2017, which places the acceptance rate even lower. In 2017, LitHub, a website devoted to writing culture, published numbers ascribed to a “University of Iowa representative” that would indicate about a 3.7% rate of acceptance. Iowa Writers’ Workshop Acceptance Rate Workshop Workshopper, Iowa Writers’ Workshop, CC BY-SA 3.0 The role of the Workshop, as they see it, continues to provide a crucible for the development of American literature among the Workshop’s students and faculty. ![]() The Workshop maintains that writing can be cultivated, more than taught, and attributes the success of its alumni to their initial talent, seen by the Workshop during the admissions process itself. Graduates of the program note the advantages of access to giants of the literary and publishing worlds, not so much for artistic guidance but for help navigating the publishing and critical terrain of American letters. Manuscript review still governs admission for these classes. Summer programs at the Workshop offer graduate-level coursework for writers, whether or not they are in a degree program. Workshop students often take courses at the university’s Center for the Book, a book arts program with its own graduate programs, but with some ties to the Workshop. Some students take courses in other University of Iowa departments, particularly theater arts and world languages. MFA students enroll in workshops in either poetry or fiction, where they meet in groups of 10 to 15 students for weekly critiques.Ī few seminars in craft are available each semester, mostly as Form of Fiction or Form of Poetry. The two-year program, or “residency,” consists primarily of writing time for a thesis to be delivered at graduation. The Iowa Workshop brings together writers of talent for support rather than for education. By 1967, enough writing programs existed in the United States to merit the forming of the Associated Writing Programs, the professional organization that unites the numerous writing programs today. Located at the University of Iowa in a grandmotherly Victorian home, the Workshop introduced the model that would launch a boom of creative writing MFA programs across the country. Founded in 1936, some of the biggest names in American literature have been faculty, students, or both. ![]() The Iowa Writers’ Workshop stands as the defining presence among American writing programs.
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