Several evening donors have unlocked several more book recommendations—but there’s still an hour left to give at 1dayforiowa.org/tir26.

New recommendation unlocked--another favorite book from Poetry Editor Sally O’Keeffe! Thank you, generous donor--and we still have some brilliant recs up our sleeve yet! Donate by midnight: 1dayforiowa.org/tir26.

Our Fulfillment Manager Tara Atkinson is right! Alumni will love seeing an older Iowa City world through Lawlor’s lens. #1DayForIowa is still going strong, and we have more favorites for you to unlock—donate by 11:59 p.m. at 1dayforiowa.org/tir26!

Our next recommendation has been unlocked! Here’s Managing Editor Alicia Wright’s fiction recommendation—what will her nonfiction favorite be? Donate any amount at 1dayforiowa.org/tir26 by midnight to find out—! #1DayforIowa

Our Editor, Lynne Nugent, shares another favorite book recommendation, unlocked by donors on #1DayForIowa.

Fiction Editor Catherine Turner’s second recommendation has been unlocked! Thank you, #1DayForIowa donors—everything helps, and we love sharing our favorites with you!

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We’re going strong with #1DayForIowa, and we’re excited to share more staff recommendations with you! Here’s a second selection from our Nonfiction Editor, Riley Ryan-Wood. Curious to know what else we love? Head to 1dayforiowa.org/tir26 to donate and find out!

Thank you to a kind donor who’s unlocked a recommendation from the second of our two Poetry Editors, Sally O’Keeffe—donate at 1dayforiowa.org/tir26 (no amount is too small—!) and see more of what we love to read. #1DayForIowa

Our #1DayForIowa recommendations are unlocking fast! Here’s undergraduate Poetry Intern Iliana Banu’s favorite poetry collection, thanks to another generous donor.

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Your #1DayForIowa donations have real impact. Through your generosity, we can train more undergraduate interns and ensure that we can meet the rising costs of production. Thank you to all who’ve given so far today—less than 8 hours to go before they shut down the giving page at 1dayforiowa.org/tir26

Our #1DayForIowa donations are rolling in! Thank you to all our donors so far! Here’s a recommendation from our Managing Editor, Alicia Wright. Head to 1dayforiowa.org/tir26 to give to our campaign and unlock her other two favorites!

A double thank you for a generous donation! One of our Poetry Editors, Nicole Migneault, recommends two books for spring—donate to unlock more from our brilliant staff! #1DayforIowa

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Our #1DayForIowa campaign is going strong! Here’s Jill Nied, one of our three undergraduate Fiction Interns, with a current favorite book she recommends.

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Wow, thank you to our #1dayforiowa donors! Here’s one of our editor Lynne Nugent’s three recommendations—donate at the link in bio to see her next two, and unlock more from our brilliant staff!

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Thank you to our first #1DayforIowa donors! These gifts really count! Here’s one of our undergraduate Fiction Interns Lynne Inouye’s favorite book recommendations.

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Thank you to our first #1dayforiowa donors! Here’s our undergraduate Poetry Intern Noa Zapin’s recommendation! Donate any amount to unlock more from our brilliant staff—

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Thank you to our first donors! Here’s one of our Fiction Editors, Catherine Turner’s two recommendations—donate to see her second, and unlock more from our brilliant staff! #1DayForIowa

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Thank you to our first donors! Here’s one of Nonfiction Editor Riley Ryan-Wood’s two recommendations—donate to see her second, and unlock more from our brilliant staff! #1DayForIowa
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Happy #1DayForIowa! Staff will share a book recommendation for each donor to TIR via the University of Iowa's annual giving day.

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Save the date: Wednesday, March 25, is #1DayForIowa. Watch this space for reasons to support TIR. Already think it's a good idea? You can donate early at: 1dayforiowa.org/tir26

Our Winter 2025-26 issue features cover art that stares into your soul. 👀

🎨: Danielle Mckinney, IMAGINATION, 2021. Courtesy of the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York and Aspen.

Dive into our fall issue 🌊

Full table of contents and ordering info at iowareview.org

🎨: Katherine Bradford, Fear of Waves, 2015. Courtesy of the artist and CANADA gallery, New York.

And our judges’ citations for the runners-up!

Announcing our winners of the 2025 Iowa Review Awards, judged by Brandon Shimoda, Amy Hempel, and Julietta Singh—Leila Farjami (poetry), Maeve Barry (fiction), and Sophie Fetokaki (nonfiction). Runners-up are James Lowell Brunton (poetry), Haleigh Yaspan (fiction), Maia Elsner (nonfiction)! 🎉

Congratulations to our two 2026 Pushcart Prize recipients, Ryan Van Meter and Clint Bentley!

We’re open for submissions to the David Hamilton Prize, a biennial award in rotating genres for TIR masthead alumni. Visit iowareview.org/davidhamilton for more information and to ensure your eligibility!

From our latest issue 54/3, an utterly original essay by Georgie Fehringer 🪽🪽

cover of the literary magazine The Iowa Review, among some twigs

Bringing light to a dreary Iowa day: poet Elizabeth Willis on the cover of our new issue. Painting by Red Danielson.

Announcing our judges for this year’s The Iowa Review Awards!

Winners and runners-up in each genre receive $1500 and $750, respectively. Submissions are open from January 1st-31st!

All submissions will be considered for publication. Good luck! We look forward to reading your work! 💫