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  • I, Too, Sing America: a Short Course on Langston Hughes and his Contemporaries
    led by Major Jackson and Emily Bernard On the eve of the centenary publication of The Weary Blues, Langston Hughes’s debut volume of poetry, we are proud to present, “I, Too, Sing America.” We celebrate Langston Hughes’s life as… Read more

  • A Short Course on Moby Dick: Things of this World and the Next, led by Peter Orner. October & November 2025
    The Writers’ Annex is proud to present an upcoming course led by Peter Orner: Things of this World and the Next, a short Course on Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. Due to popular demand following Orner’s 2024 short course on… Read more

  • 2026 Poetry Program – June 22-28
    The Community of Writers is delighted to announce the Poetry Program which will be held in-person June 22-28, 2026 in Olympic Valley, California. Join our mailing list to learn when applications open and when teaching staff are announced.… Read more

  • 2026 Summer Writers Workshops in Fiction, Memoir and Narrative Nonfiction
    The Community of Writers is delighted to announce the Writers Workshops in Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction and Memoir which will be held in-person July 10-17, 2026 in Olympic Valley, California. Join our mailing list to be informed when applications open and… Read more

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  • Farewell to Malcolm Margolin, author, pioneering publisher, and friend of the Community.
    Malcolm – who died this week in Oakland at the age of 84 – was gifted with a uniquely consequential life. Immigrant to California from the East Coast establishment (Boston Latin School, Harvard), as a young man he discovered out… Read more

  • Remembering Robin Radin
    This summer, during our Writers’ Workshop week, we received the devastating news that our friend Robin Radin had passed. We want to honor the life and legacy of our dear friend, Robin Radin. Radin brothers (with Paul’s white horse Zum… Read more

  • Thank you for a Wonderful Summer
    All of us at the Community of Writers want to express our gratitude to all of you who were a part of our summer workshops. It was a fantastic season of summer programs! Participants and staff (our seasonal community) gathered… Read more

  • Public Literary Events in Olympic Valley

    Author and Playwright Sands Hall reading from the Tiny House deck at the Community of Writers Summer Workshops in Olympic Valley.
    We are pleased to present a week of public literary events in Olympic Valley as part of the 55th Summer Writing Workshops of the Community of Writers. Join us in July for craft talks, panels and readings from our esteemed… Read more

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  • Daniel Pope
    Daniel Pope’s newest novel, Go Help Yourself, will be available in May 2026 from University of New Orleans Press. It won the University of New Orleans Publishing Lab Prize, and was longlisted for the First Pages Contest.… Read more

  • Peter Orner
    Peter Orner’s newest novel, The Gossip Columnist’s Daughter, was published by Little, Brown and Company in August 2025. The cold case of a young Hollywood starlet’s death sets a contemporary writer on an epic and comic quest to uncover… Read more

  • Jeanine Stevens
    Jeanine Stevens’ latest poetry collection, Left Handed Hummingbird, was published by Clare Songbirds Publishing House in 2025. The title poem began at the Community of Writers in 2007 in Jimmy Santiago Baca’s Workshop.… Read more

  • Lester Lennon
    Lester Graves Lennon (along Sehba Sarwar) was named a 2025 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow of Altadena, California. Per the Academy of American Poets: “In partnership with the Altadena Library District, Lester Graves Lennon and Sehba Sarwar will launch… Read more

  • Nick Makoha
    Nick Makoha’s second collection, The New Carthaginians, was published by Penguin (Allen Lane) in February 2025. The book, a mythic and formally inventive long poem, explores flight, identity, and the 1976 Entebbe hijacking through three interlinked figures: Jean-Michel Basquiat,… Read more

  • Meriwether Clarke
    Meriwether Clarke’s debut poetry collection, Body Memory, will be released from Unsolicited Press on October 7, 2025.… Read more

  • Shobha Rao
    Shobha Rao’s novel, Indian Country, will be published on August 5, 2025. She is also the author of the novel, Girls Burn Brighter, and the short story collection, An Unrestored Woman. More info here.… Read more

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