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2018 Annual Report Iwp 2018 Iwp 2018 2018 ANNUAL REPORT IWP 2018 IWP 2018 TABLE OF CONTENTS IWP STAFF MISSION STATEMENT IWP PUBLICATIONS Director The mission of the International Writing Program (IWP) is to Christopher Merrill promote mutual understanding by providing writers from every 8 part of the world the necessary space, physical or imaginative, Associate Director Hugh Ferrer for creative work and collaboration in an intercultural setting. NEW PROJECTS Senior Program Officer Our mission is anchored in the values of freedom of expression Lines & Spaces Coordinator and inclusiveness, and in the belief that creativity has the power 10 Kelly Bedeian to shape the world. We execute this mission by building enduring creative communi- Between the Lines Coordinator IWP-INSPIRED Cate Dicharry ties, encouraging cross-cultural dialogue, and supporting writers at all stages of their careers. PROGRAMS Accountant Angela Dickey 11 Editor Nataša Ďurovičová FALL RESIDENCY Fall Residency Assistant Sarah Elgatian 12 Admin. Services Coordinator Meggan Fisher UNIVERSITY ANNUAL BETWEEN THE LINES Communications Coordinator Allison Gnade WRITING CAMP Digital Learning Coordinator OF IOWA REPORT 24 Pamela Marston Editor, Design, Photography Allison Gnade Housing Coordinator Mary Nazareth STUDENTS Managing Editor DIGITAL LEARNING Undergraduate Research Fellows Hugh Ferrer Senior Program Advisor Cindy Garcia 28 Peter Nazareth Joey Ho Additional Editing Austin Hughes Nataša Ďurovičová Between the Lines Assistant Claire Jacobson Fall Residency Transportation Assistant Caroline Meek Consultant LINES & SPACES Caitlin Plathe Emily Vaughan Saunia Powell TOURS Fall Residency Coordinator Additional Design Saunia Powell Mastura Ibnat Graduate Research Assistants 30 Chamini Kulathunga Youth Programs Coordinator Leigh Marshall Additional Photography Katie Prout Benjamin Schmidt Kelly Bedeian John Vater Peter Gerlach PROGRAM SUPPORT Outreach Coordinator Assistant Caroline Meek Kelsi Vanada 35 International Writing Program On the cover: Nigerian & American THIS YEAR’S The University of Iowa writer Chris Abani, IWP Ida Cordelia 100 Shambaugh House Beam Distinguished Visitor, reads for BOOKSHELF 430 N. Clinton St. the public at Dey House on the Uni- 38 Iowa City, Iowa 52242-2020 USA versity of Iowa campus in Sept., 2018. Iowa Public Radio’s Ben Kiefer interviews Kateryna 319.335.0128 Babkina, 2018 IWP Fall iwp.uiowa.edu Resident from Ukraine. 2 3 IWP 2018 IWP 2018 LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR Greetings, friends, I am pleased to present you with the our place in the scheme of things. The 2018 Annual Report of the International IWP is known as “the world’s narrative Writing Program (IWP). The following nursery,” and our initiatives, the majori- pages detail the settings and innovative ty of which are supported jointly by the ways in which the IWP connected writ- University of Iowa and the Bureau of ers from around the world. From the Fall Educational and Cultural Affairs at the Residency, which brought distinguished U. S. Department of State, inspire sto- writers from twenty-seven countries to ries that are told around the world. What the University of Iowa, to the tens of co-founder Paul Engle described as the thousands of writers who participated craziest idea he had ever heard—an idea in our Massive Open Online Courses from the IWP’s other co-founder, Hual- (MOOCs), we shared some of the magic ing Engle; namely, a writing program of living, studying, and writing in Iowa for writers from every land—has trans- City, a UNESCO City of Literature. formed the literary lives of writers and The results? Impressive, if we do say so readers everywhere. ourselves. Many dozens of new poems, plays, short stories, novels, essays, and New IWP programs are on their way in film scripts made their way onto the 2019, including the Women’s Creative page, and we have no doubt that the con- Mentorship Project for writers from versations sparked here in what we like Africa and South America; the Summer to call “the United Nations of Writers” Institute for college-aged writers from will shape literary discourse for a long the U.S., India, and Pakistan; and an ex- time to come. pansion of Between the Lines, supported by a Building Bridges Islamic Arts grant We are profoundly grateful for the from the Doris Duke Charitable Foun- support that makes possible this wide dation. And we have no doubt that new variety of programs, which in their ideas will spark ever more interesting different ways not only bring us into connections and ways of thinking. After closer contact with people from around five decades of connecting writers, our the globe but help us to better understand journey has only just begun. With gratitude, Christopher Merrill, far right, listens as a student reads a piece written at an IWP writing Christopher Merrill workshop at Lincoln Corner, International Islamic University, IWP Director Islamabad, Pakistan. 4 5 IWP 2018 IWP 2018 2018 IWP PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS FALL RESIDENTS BETWEEN THE LINES PARTICIPANTS IWP DIRECTOR WRITING WORKSHOPS DIGITAL LEARNING COURSES AND OVERSEAS TOURS WRITE FOR YOUR LIFE: TURNING TRAUMA INTO STORIES GALAPAGOS ISLANDS “FAKE NEWS!”: FACTS, INFOR- MATION, DISINFORMATION, MISINFORMATION INDONESIA LINES AND SPACES AMERICAN AUTHORS ABROAD TOURS MAURITIUS 5% 2018 IWP 3% SUPPORT MASSIVE ONLINE OPEN COURSES THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA 10% GRANTS FROM THE U.S. STATE DEPT. PARTNER FUNDS AND PROGRAM FEES 46% GRANTS (NON-U.S. GOVERNMENT) 36% GIFTS TO THE IWP Percentages Based on Total 2018 Expenditures 2018 IWP PROGRAM TIMELINE Program jan feb mar apr may jun jul aug sep oct nov dec @UIIWP ON SOCIAL MEDIA Fall Residency Between the Lines FOLLOWER COUNT 3,624 followers Dec. 2017 Dec. 2018 727 followers 19,256 followers Lines & Spaces 103% 14% 13% IWP Director Workshops Digital Learning 6 7 IWP 2018 IWP 2018 2018 IWP PUBLICATIONS n 2018, two new volumes captured, refined, and extended discussions from the IWP’s Iinternational conferences: Introduced by IWP Director Christopher Merrill, The Same Gate: Writings in the Spirit of Rumi (cover shown at right) gathers contributions from 16 participants in a 2013 IWP gathering in Konya, Turkey. The symposium, The Same Gate: A Poetic Exchange, focused on the ghazal form across literary traditions. Emanating from the Arabo-Persian linguistic realm, the ghazal was embraced by Sufi mystics, popularized across southern and western Asia, and, in the 20th century, innovated among English-writing poets. This wide historical and cultural span is well visible in the collection’s table of contents. Here an essay on translating the ghazal’s rigorous rhyming structure into English Top: Rumi’s travels, concluding in Konya, Turkey, in the 13th century. Bottom: IWP gathered writers in Konya in the spirit of Rumi in 2013. Find more, including videos, at: bit.ly/SameGconf is met by new English-language ghazals; an essay describing the landscapes of eastern Turkey where Rumi lived and was buried is in conversation with that of a Muslim feminist surveying the same landscape and writings, but through a different lens. Poems and aphorisms by writers in the mystic lineage can be read alongside more scholarly pieces on Rumi’s poetics by literary critics from Afghanistan and Iran, whose critical vocabulary and modes of commentary are less known to us. The volume was published by Autumn Hill Books in the 91st Meridian Books series. Find it at: bit.ly/SameGate In a similar vein, the electronic collection To What Do I Belong? Traversing Differ- ences, Bridging Narratives (available for free downloading at bit.ly/whatdoibelong) is the result of a 2017 IWP symposium held in Tangier, Morocco. The prompt to the ten writers from twelve countries was urgent, and not easy: How do forms of writing transpose private narratives of belonging into public discourse —and how to respond to the rampant dissatisfaction with models of belonging so present everywhere in public discourses? The essays, submitted as draft statements before the conference and revised AVAILABLE FOR FREE AT: in its wake, take off from autobiographical coordinates; their “competing” stories of bit.ly/whatdoibelong belonging, inclusion, and exclusion, of course, differ vastly. Read together, the pieces in the volume refract clichés of identity so common in current debates, and sometimes ask hard questions right back. – Nataša Ďurovičová, IWP Editor 8 9 IWP 2018 IWP 2018 NEW IWP PROJECTS IWP-INSPIRED BEGINNING IN 2019 YOUTH PROGRAMS outh programming has proven to be some of our most impactful work, with participants leaving Iowa inspired to write and share their experiences. Our Between the Lines youth program (more Yabout it on page 24) has become a model for several programs abroad, created and run by IWP alumni. Below are just a few of these successful projects. – Kelly Bedeian, IWP Senior Program Officer isTHE a creative OLIVE writing programWRITERS for young - MoroccanMOROCCO writers age 16-21. The 6-day in- tensive writing residency in Casablanca is led by international writers from Morocco, Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor (right, IWP Fall Resident ‘05 Egypt, Britain, and the U.S. Per Mohammed Wahabi (BTL ’15): “I was engrossed & ‘17, Kenya) is a mentor in IWP’s inaugural Women’s in a dream, that later on became a haunting obsession, to set up a local ‘Between the Creative Mentorship Project. Lines’ for all those magnificent souls who couldn’t make it.”olivewriters.org lim and non-Muslim teens to the UI for a rigorous Founder and Director of The Olive Writers: Mohammed Wahabi (BTL ’15, Morocco) WOMEN’S CREATIVE curriculum of seminars, workshops, and special MENTORSHIP PROJECT events. For two weeks in the summer, Muslim and WRITE IN ARMENIA In 2019, the IWP is proud to launch the Women’s non-Muslim students live as roommates in a UI res- Creative Mentorship Project (WCM). This project idence hall, share meals together, and embark on an isINTERNATIONAL an extensive, ten-day creative WRITING writing program forCAMP young writers to learn from focuses on mentorship between young, emerging exciting exploration of creative writing, literature, and about each other.
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