I’m new to writing in the creative sense. I’ve given myself goals, such as writing creatively a couple of times a month, and reading novels, since I’m interested in writing a novel.

The two-story, 3,500-square-foot Nonfiction Writing Program building will sit across the street from the UI president’s residence at the corner of N. Clinton and Church streets in Iowa City.

Writing Seminars attempt to make up for their lack of substantive methodological training by imposing inflexible timelines and grading structures. Real research is never predictable: a months-long ...