What is the relationship of NWP to the Writers Workshop?
NWP focuses on literary nonfiction, the Writers’ Workshop on poetry and fiction. The NWP has between thirty to forty students registered at any one time; the WW has around three times that number. Each program has its own faculty and roster of visiting writers. The two programs are in separate buildings and separately admit their students. But they are also of the same university in a small enough community that students encounter each other readily. In both programs, some courses are open to outside students. Readings, coffee houses, pool rooms, bookstores, The Iowa Review office, and the various shops–printing, bookbinding, papermaking–of the Iowa Center for the Book are several of the sites that encourage students from the two programs to come together.
