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  • That Poetry, By Which I Lived: A Short Course on Galway Kinnell
    The Community of Writers is honored to present a five-week intensive series on the life and work of Galway Kinnell, led by Major Jackson Galway Kinnell remains one of the most important poets of his generation simply for the distinct… Read more

  • 2024 Summer Poetry Workshop
    The Community of Writers is please to announce our summer Poetry Workshop in Olympic Valley, June 17 – 23, 2024. featuring Blas Falconer • Brenda Hillman • Major Jackson • Patricia Spears Jones • Brynn Saito • Matthew Zapruder •… Read more

  • 2024 Summer Writers Workshops in Fiction, Memoir and Narrative Nonfiction
    The Community of Writers is delighted to announce ehe Writers Workshops in Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction and Memoir which will be held in-person July 8-15, 2024 in Olympic Valley, California. More Details Join our Mailing List… Read more

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  • Quarterly Roundup of New Alumni Books
    A selection of books published by Alumni & Staff: April – June, 2023 Each quarter we are pleased to highlight some of the books published by members of our community. For a full chronology of alumni news, visit our Omnium … Read more

  • Announcing issue 12 of the OGQ: The Omnium Gatherum Quarterly
    Our twelfth issue of the OGQ (Omnium Gatherum Quarterly) features the 2023 Writer’s Workshops opening talk by Oscar Villalon, poetry by Lisa Alvarez and Frank Karioris; essays by Hilary Zaid, Rita Chang-Eppig, Jasmin Hakes, and Stephanie Austin; remembrances of Al Young by… Read more

  • Quarterly Roundup of New Alumni Books
    A selection of books published by Alumni & Staff: January – March, 2023 Each quarter we are pleased to highlight some of the books published by members of our community. For a full chronology of alumni news, visit our Omnium … Read more

  • Announcing Issue 11 of the OGQ: The Omnium Gatherum Quarterly
    We’re pleased to announce the publication of our eleventh issue of the OGQ (Omnium Gatherum Quarterly) with poetry by Nicholas Reiner and Chrystal AC Salas; essays by Jimin Han, Cai Emmons, Kristen Leigh Schwarz, Susanne Pari, and Keenan Norris; a lyrical essay… Read more

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  • Patricia Spears Jones
    Patricia Spears Jones’ fifth poetry collection, The Beloved Community, was published September, 26 2023 by Copper Canyon Press. More information here.… Read more

  • Jessie Ren Marshall
    Jessie Ren Marshall’s debut story collection, WOMEN! IN! PERIL!, will be published April 2, 2024 as part of a two-book deal with Bloomsbury. In this ferociously feminist, genre-bending book, Marshall balances humor and gravitas to explore the complexities of queerness,… Read more

  • Tamam Kahn
    Tamam’s new book of poetry, Across the Difficult: With Rabia of Basra and Others, was published in July, 2023 by Albion-Andalus Books, with poems about Rabia of Basra and historical women of the Middle East.… Read more

  • Ann Fisher-Wirth
    Ann Fisher-Wirth’s book-length poetry/photography collaboration with Wilfried Raussert, Into the Chalice of Your Thoughts, will be exhibited at the Guadalajara Book Fair in November 2023 and published by Guadalajara University Press, with facing translations of the poem into Spanish… Read more

  • Adela Najarro
    Adela Najarro has been selected as a 2023 Individual Artist Fellow by the California Arts Council for the Central California Region. The California Arts Council and the administering organization SVCREATES has recognized her as an established artist with a stipend… Read more

  • Hermelinda Hernandez
    Hermelinda Hernandez’s poem “The Exit” won the 2023 Ernesto Trejo Memorial Prize and was published in the Academy of American Poets prizes for the University & College Poetry Prizes. More information here.… Read more

  • Kazim Ali
    Kazim Ali’s newest collection of poems, Sukun, was published by Wesleyan University Press in September 2023.… Read more

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