University of Iowa News Release—August 26 , 2009

IWP participants discuss 'Teaching Writing' in Sept. 11 public event

Participants in the 2009 International Writing Program (IWP) at the University of Iowa will address "Teaching Writing" -- can writing really be taught and learned? -- in a free panel discussion at noon Friday, Sept. 11, in Meeting Room A of the Iowa City Public Library.

The panel members will be novelist, scriptwriter, poet and translator Yahya Abdel-Latif from Egypt, novelist and critic Dung Kai Cheung from Hong Kong; fiction writer Fedosy Santaella from Venezuela; and novelist and essayist Mabrouck Rachedi from France.

Biographies of all the IWP writers are accessible at http://iwp.uiowa.edu/writers/index.html.