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2019 ANNUAL REPORT IWP 2019 IWP 2019 IWP Staff Mission Statement The mission of the International Writing Program (IWP) is to Director Christopher Merrill promote mutual understanding by providing writers from every part of the world the necessary space, physical or imaginative, Associate Directors Hugh Ferrer for creative work and collaboration in an intercultural setting. Josie Neumann Our mission is anchored in the values of freedom of expression Accountants and inclusiveness, and in the belief that creativity has the power Angela Dickey Sheri Mohler to shape the world. Admin. Services Coordinator We execute this mission by building enduring creative communi- Meggan Fisher ties, encouraging cross-cultural dialogue, and supporting writers Admin. Services Coordinator at all stages of their careers. Between the Lines Assistant Caitlin Plathe Between the Lines Summer Assistant Julie Kedzie University Annual Communications Coordinator Allison Gnade of Iowa Report From left: Longtime IWP supporter Dr. Victoria Lim, IWP Co-Founder Hualing Nieh Engle, and Mary Nazareth, the IWP Digital Learning Coordinator Fall Residency’s Housing Coordinator for many decades, together at the International Writing Program (IWP) 2019 Fall Pamela Marston Residency opening celebration. Students Editor, Photography, Design Editor Allison Gnade Nataša Ďurovičová Managing Editor Fall Residency Coordinator Undergraduate Research Fellows Hugh Ferrer Saunia Powell Joshua Balicki Austin Hughes Design Mastura Ibnat Table of Contents Fall Residency Assistant Mastura Ibnat Sarah Elgatian Caroline Meek Cale Stelken Lynda Xinyang Wang Senior Program Advisor Photography Peter Nazareth Graduate Research Assistants Kelly Bedeian David Drustrup Peter Gerlach MAP OF 2019 DIGITAL LINES & Senior Program Officer Mackenzie Gill Caroline Meek Lines & Spaces Coordinator Chamini Kulathunga PARTICIPANTS .............. 6 LEARNING .................... 14 SPACES .......................... 30 Kelly Bedeian Kaylee Lockett Leigh Marshall Summer Institute Coordinator BETWEEN FALL YOUTH CULTURAL Peter Gerlach Cover photo: 2019 IWP Fall Residents Batsirai Chigama THE LINES ...................... 8 RESIDENCY .................. 16 LEADERS ....................... 34 (Zimbabwe), third from left, Takako Arai (Japan), fourth from Summer Institute Assistant right, and Efe Duyan (Turkey), far right, perform with the Oliver Siyanda Mohutsiwa Lake OGJB Quartet at the City of Asylum Jazz Poetry Festival in SUMMER WOMEN'S CREATIVE THIS YEAR’S Women’s Creative Mentorship Project Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. INSTITUTE .................... 12 MENTORSHIP ............... 28 BOOKSHELF ................ 38 Coordinator Cate Dicharry International Writing Program Youth Programs Coordinators Katie Prout The University of Iowa Alisa Weinstein 100 Shambaugh House 430 N. Clinton St. Iowa City, Iowa 52242-2020 USA 319.335.0128 iwp.uiowa.edu 2 3 IWP 2019 IWP 2019 LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR Greetings, friends, As we go to press with this Annual Report of the Summer Institute for college-aged writers from International Writing Program (IWP), we find the U.S., India, and Pakistan; and expanded ourselves in uncharted terrain. In 2019, our staff Between the Lines, supported by a Building shared office space and bumped into one another Bridges Islamic Arts grant from the Doris Duke in the kitchen in our beloved Shambaugh House Charitable Foundation. Countless new poems, on The University of Iowa campus, and now we plays, short stories, novels, essays, and film are working remotely, in isolation, determined scripts made their way onto the page, thanks not only to shore up everything that still binds us in part to the IWP; the conversations sparked together, but to extend our literary connections to in what we like to call “the United Nations of all corners of the globe. The novel coronavirus, Writers” will surely inform discourses on all which has infected millions of people with manner of literary matters in this time of the COVID-19, killing hundreds of thousands, pandemic. has changed everything, and while this report details a range of successes in 2019, our hearts We are profoundly grateful for the support that are heavy with the scale of the tragedy that has makes possible this wide variety of programs, spared no one. No doubt our report for 2020 will which in their different ways not only bring look dramatically different as we adapt to our us into closer contact with writers and readers new circumstances, developing and deploying around the world but help us to better understand virtual tools with which to connect the writers our place in the scheme of things. The IWP of the world—a mission that seems more crucial is known as “the world’s narrative nursery,” now than ever. and our initiatives, the majority of which are supported jointly by The University of Iowa and The following pages detail some of the innovative the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at ways in which the IWP connected writers the U.S. Department of State, inspire stories that from around the world last year. From the Fall endure. What co-founder Paul Engle described Residency, which brought distinguished writers as the craziest idea he had ever heard—a writing from twenty-seven countries to The University of program for writers from every land, suggested Iowa, to the thousands of writers who participated by IWP co-founder Hualing Nieh Engle— in our Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), has transformed the literary lives of writers we shared some of the magic of living, studying, and readers everywhere. After more than five and writing in Iowa City, a UNESCO City of decades of connecting writers, our journey has Literature. We developed a Women’s Creative only just begun. And we hope that you and your Mentorship Project for writers from Africa and loved ones stay well. 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Through performing at open-mic nights streamed live on Facebook, BTL voices were A few thoughts from BTL 2019 participants: amplified, and along with the online