[.45 Long Colt]

I’m a Southerner who has known about it forever. I suspect lost readers of literary fiction know of it, too. Some of the very best writers of our time have either been faculty or students. Some of my favorite Iowa writers are Raymond Carver, Daniel Woodrell, Kent Haruf, Stuart Dybek, Barry Hannah, Marilynne Robinson, Chris Offutt, Wallace Stegnor and Flannery O’Connor. I could probably name two dozen more I have read and admire.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I'll bet if you asked 100 U of I students about the Writers Workshop, fewer than 25 would know it existed.

[Flycatcher]

Flannery O’Connor

Greatest American short-story writer of the 20th century. Yet so few contemporary readers are familiar with her today.

A real shame.