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Writing Center consultants can work with you on any kind of writing project, from course papers to job application materials and creative writing. We can also help with speeches and presentations. Our services are free and available to all students, staff and faculty at the University of Iowa.

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Writing for all

The Writing Center is hosted by the Department of Rhetoric and is located in room 110 of the English Philosophy Building. Services are free and available to all students, faculty, and staff. Not affiliated with the UI? We also help staff a community writing center at the Iowa City and Coralville Public Library. Walk-in appointments available for Johnson County residents during the fall and spring semesters.

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Est. 1934

One of the first Writing Centers in the U.S.
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1:1

The Center has a long-standing tradition of one-to-one instruction in rhetorical and communication skills.

5,000

The number of hours of one-on-one writing instruction we provide each year.
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2,000

The number of students, faculty, and staff, we meet with each semester.
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Our Story

The University of Iowa Writing Center was started by Carrie Stanley in 1934, making it one of the first writing centers in the country. The center has a long-standing tradition of one-to-one instruction in rhetorical and communication skills.

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Events

Live from Prairie Lights | Sara Gilmore and Alicia Wright promotional image

Live from Prairie Lights | Sara Gilmore and Alicia Wright

Friday, November 7, 2025 7:00pm
Prairie Lights Books

Writers' Workshop graduate Sara Gilmore will read from her newest poetry collection, The Green Lives, and poet Alicia Wright will read from her newest poetry collection, You're Called by the Same Sound.

NYU Press describes The Green Lives as "[finding] joy in paradoxes from which felt sense can expand." Poet m.s. RedCherries praises The Green Lives as "an intuitive, nearly prescient, voice [that] reads as if it were a whisper or hymn," while Margaret Ross says: "These poems churn with Heraclitean...

WHAT WE MAKE: A School of Art, Art History, and Design Staff Exhibition promotional image

WHAT WE MAKE: A School of Art, Art History, and Design Staff Exhibition

Monday, November 10, 2025 8:00am to 8:00pm
Art Building West

“Making” is the act of bringing something from our minds into reality; a task that can drive us, calm us, or give us pleasure. This exhibition by the staff of SAAHD is about our creative pursuits, giving the community the opportunity to learn more about us.

This presentation of creative work by School of Art, Art History, and Design staff will be on display Nov. 10–15 in the Levitt Gallery, 140 Art Building West. Join us for a closing reception on Nov. 14 from 4–5:30 p.m.

Department of Microbiology and Immunology Seminar Series

Monday, November 10, 2025 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Bowen Science Building
WHAT WE MAKE: A School of Art, Art History, and Design Staff Exhibition promotional image

WHAT WE MAKE: A School of Art, Art History, and Design Staff Exhibition

Tuesday, November 11, 2025 8:00am to 8:00pm
Art Building West

“Making” is the act of bringing something from our minds into reality; a task that can drive us, calm us, or give us pleasure. This exhibition by the staff of SAAHD is about our creative pursuits, giving the community the opportunity to learn more about us.

This presentation of creative work by School of Art, Art History, and Design staff will be on display Nov. 10–15 in the Levitt Gallery, 140 Art Building West. Join us for a closing reception on Nov. 14 from 4–5:30 p.m.

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