Editing Iowa Writers' Workshop (section)

=== Methodology ===
The Workshop was formed by Norman Foerster's passionate support for creative writing and [[Wilbur Schramm|Wilbur Schramm's]] conviction that writing should be as technical and rigorous a pursuit as any traditional literature degree. The workshop model for higher education creative writing was created in that pursuit of technical intensity. The model constantly exposed students to outside opinions on their fiction and created a pressurized atmosphere that forced students to rein in their emotional reactions and consider their work analytically. The Workshop operated without the characteristic assumption of the time that artists needed to be unleashed, instead opting to focus and refine them.<ref>{{Citation |title=Autobardolatry |date=2009-08-30 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvjsf59f.5 |work=The Program Era |pages=77–126 |access-date=2023-11-07 |publisher=Harvard University Press|doi=10.2307/j.ctvjsf59f.5 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> While intended to serve fiction writers, the Workshop began to change in the 1970s when its first nonfiction thesis was accepted. Ever since, the Workshop has produced many literary journalists and shaped public perception of creative nonfiction.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Dowling |first=David |date=2016 |title=Beyond the Program Era: Tracy Kidder, John D'Agata, and the Rise of Literary Journalism at the Iowa Writers' Workshop |journal=Literary Journalism Studies |volume=8 |issue=1 |pages=52–56 |via=EBSCO Communication Source}}</ref>