My book "I Can't Write Serious Sentences" (Daiwa Shobo) has started to appear on bookstore shelves again. It is a long-selling book with 105,000 copies currently in print. This is the second ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. On the top floor of Park Hall, a tight-knit cohort of writers and poets refine ...

U ndergraduate writing programs introduce college students to the rhetorical and argumentative structures they will be expected to master during their four years on campus and beyond. Learning the ...

Christopher Merrill, longtime director of the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program (IWP), is marking 25 years as director and has announced he will step down at the end of the year.

Nearly a year after the University announced it was phasing out all 23 of the creative writing lecturers over the course of the next two years, the first set of lecturers have said their goodbyes to ...

Starting in autumn quarter 2025, the University will begin a multi-year restructuring of the undergraduate writing program, which had previously run concurrently with the humanities Core sequence.

Despite its looming closure, the Iowa Youth Writing Project's fall slate is shaping up to be one of the most vibrant. In August, the University of Iowa's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences announced ...

Actually, I always failed Japanese in high school. I was terrible at writing essays and thought, 'I can't write at all...' 'The text isn't long, but for some reason, it's hard to understand.' 'I read ...

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