UI nixes Youth Writing Project, Summer Writing Festival amid 'funding change'

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The University of Iowa will discontinue the Iowa Youth Writing Project (IYWP) and the Iowa Summer Writing Festival at the end of 2025 due to funding changes.

The Iowa Youth Writing Project serves K-12 students, while the Iowa Summer Writing Festival offeres workshops for adult writers.

The university cited "funding challenges" as a reason for the programs' termination, similar to the funding cuts that impacted the International Writing Program.

Citing “ongoing funding changes,” the University of Iowa is ending the Iowa Youth Writing Project (IYWP) and the Iowa Summer Writing Festival .

The writing project started in 2010 to engage K-12 students throughout the state with "language arts and creative thinking."

The Iowa Summer Writing Festival, created in 1987, b