The results are in: we are very excited to announce the winners of the 2022 Iowa Review Awards! The work of the winners will be published in our Winter 2022/2023 issue. Thank you to everyone who participated in the contest, and a huge thank you to our contest judges: Louisa Hall (fiction), Inara Verzemnieks (nonfiction), and Donika Kelly (poetry). Meet our winners: FICTION
Pastor shares his advice for bringing divided towns together 01:50
The enforced isolation of the pandemic had disrupted some of the momentum in Hamburg that had allowed for a community of people across all faiths and beliefs to unite over shared concerns, but he held out hope that people would once again come together in its wake. There s that hero stage and then there s the disillusionment. And then after people kind of, you know, shake the dust off their feet a little bit, they say, OK, now, now it s time to get work done. And so this, too, will pass. The pandemic will pass, the contentious election atmosphere will pass, or at least there will be a time where we can take a step out of it.