To honor the editorship, mentorship, and friendship of David Hamilton, who was editor of The Iowa Review for more than 30 years, we are pleased to announce the David Hamilton Prize for Iowa Review Alumni, launching in 2017 and continuing biennially.
In the spirit of David Hamilton’s support and encouragement of his students and their writing, anyone who has ever worked for The Iowa Review, whether as paid staff or volunteer reader, and whose name is listed as such on the masthead of any back issue of the magazine is eligible to enter the contest.
The prize will be $1,000 and publication in The Iowa Review. The winner will be selected by the current editor of The Iowa Review.
The contest will accept genres on a rotating basis, with the first contest being for poetry. The schedule for the next three contests is as follows: 2017 contest for poetry; 2019 contest for nonfiction; 2021 Contest for Fiction. More information on 2017 contest guidelines can be found here.
The David Hamilton Prize for Iowa Review Alumni is funded by the generous contribution of anonymous donors.
About David Hamilton
David Hamilton, emeritus professor of English at the University of Iowa, served as editor of The Iowa Review from 1978 through 2009. While at the University of Iowa he taught literature, both medieval and modern, and in the Nonfiction Writing Program. He is the author of Deep River: A Memoir of a Missouri Farm (University of Missouri Press) and Ossabaw: Poems (Salt Modern Poets Series).
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