The Iowar Writers Workshop

The idea of a writing workshop in which you have a class of like 10 people around the same age and skill level, is a mid 20th century American novelty. Like 100 years ago, there were no creative writing professors. The way literature is produced today is professionalized in a way that is a real break with the past. In 1936, the University of Iowa immense this concept of the creative writing workshop,. You can even get a degree in this. And that changes everything.