The results are in: we are very excited to announce the winners of the 2020 Iowa Review Awards! The work of the winners will be published in our Winter 2020 issue. Thank you to everyone who participated in the contest, and a huge thank you to our contest judges: Stephanie Burt (poetry), Lan Samantha Chang (fiction), and Leslie Jamison (nonfiction). Meet our winners:
Phan Nhiên Hạo, translated from the Vietnamese by Hai-Dang Phan
It’s already past midnight but the sun has never been late. Waiting at the end of the street the sun will catch a yellow tram and come meet us in a café just opening its doors.