Dear Writers, Just want to forward this call for Iowa poets and fictioneers to apply for the 2023 Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award. If nothing else, you'd get an all expenses paid trip to NYC -- Yours, in Iowa solidarity, Lisa Lisa Roberts (she/her) Director | Iowa City Poetry Co-Director | Free Generative Writing Workshops Board Chair | The James Gang (402) 310-9377 A non-profit arts organization, Iowa City Poetry builds community through a love of poetry. We share the wealth of literary resources in Iowa City, a UNESCO City of Literature and home to the Iowa Writers' Workshop, with writers of all ages, incomes, identities, and experience levels. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Poets & Writers <news@pw.org> Date: Wed, Feb 8, 2023 at 4:32 PM Subject: Iowa Writers: Apply for the 2023 Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award by February 10! To: <iowacitypoetry@gmail.com> ABOUT P&W | PW.ORG | CONTACT Iowa Writers: Apply for the 2023 Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award by February 10! Attention Iowa writers: it's your last chance to apply for the 2023 Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award. The prestigious award, which aims to provide promising writers a network for professional advancement, has helped to launch the careers of Sue Monk Kidd, David Mura, Mona Simpson, Lidia Yuknavitch, and others. This year’s judges are Alejandro Varela for fiction and Megan Fernandes for poetry. Entries must be submitted by February 10.LEARN MORE AND APPLY The award is generously supported by Maureen Mahon Egen, a member of the Poets & Writers Emeritus Board of Directors. PW.ORG | SUBSCRIBE | DONATE STAY CONNECTED ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ Poets & Writers | 90 Broad Street, Suite 2100, New York, NY 10004Unsubscribe iowacitypoetry@gmail.comUpdate Profile | Constant Contact Data NoticeSent by news@pw.org powered byTry email marketing for free today!

This forum is intended to help support local writers, as well as those offering professional services, or literary opportunities in Iowa City and surrounding areas. My hope is that it can grow and evolve as we learn each other's needs and the best ways in which a forum of this sort can address them. We are proudly a work in progress. 1.Start by introducing yourself and how you have come to writing and/or organizing literary offerings. We welcome writers working at all levels of experience and across all creative writing genres. 2.Say a few words about what you hope to get out of joining the forum: community, process advice, a particular service, a critique or reading group, notifications of community workshops, notifications of community readings? Are you interested in finding literary organizations to volunteer with? 3.Let us know if you have a service or literary offering that you would like to spread the word about! We welcome regular postings about new opportunities! To supplement this forum, PorchLight offers a monthly "Long Project Check-in and Mixer" on the last Saturday of every month from 1-3, starting on January 28th, 2023. Anyone working on a long project in any genre is welcome to join a round-robin style discussion. Each person will have a chance to talk about what they are working on, where they are in their process and to share a one page section, if they wish. Participants may give light positive feedback and share recommendations for any part of the writing process. Snacks and coffee will be served. All forum members are invited so count on meeting long term writers, and beginners.