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  • 2023 Summer Writers Workshops in Fiction and Nonfiction
    The Writers Workshops in Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction and Memoir will be held in-person July 10-17, 2023 in Olympic Valley, California. More Details Join our Mailing List… Read more

  • 2023 Summer Poetry Workshop
    The Community of Writers will offer the Poetry Workshop in-person in Olympic Valley, June 19-25, 2023. featuring 2023 poetry staff members Kazim Ali • Victoria Chang • Forrest Gander • Carmen Giménez • Brenda Hillman • Evie Shockley • Special… Read more

  • 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 emerged as one of the most important poets of his generation simply for the… Read more

  • A Short Course: CD Wright – An American Original
    The Community of Writers is honored to present a five-week intensive series on the life and work of poet CD Wright taught by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Forrest Gander and Griffin Poetry Prize-winning poet Brenda Hillman. C.D.Wright’s poetry is some of… Read more

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  • Quarterly Roundup of New Alumni Books
    Books published by Alumni & Staff in October – December, 2022. Congratulations to these Community of Writers alumni and teaching staff who have published books during the fourth quarter of 2022! We are delighted to share their success with you.… Read more

  • Announcing the 2023 Summer Workshops
    The Community of Writers is pleased to announce our Summer Workshops in Poetry and Prose in Olympic Valley, CA POETRY – JUNE 19-25 WRITERS WORKSHOPS – JULY 10-17 We are delighted to announce our fifty-fourth annual summer workshops season! Applications… Read more

  • Quarterly Roundup of New Alumni Books
    Books published by Alumni & Staff in July – September, 2022. Congratulations to these Community of Writers alumni and teaching staff who have published books during the third quarter of 2022! We are delighted to share their success with you.… Read more

  • Thank you for an extraordinary summer!
    The 2022 Poetry Workshop participants! Poems, photocopiers, poetry elves, vegan muffins, handmade tablecloths, softball games, nature walks past roaring snowmelt waterfalls, quaking aspen trees, a live-streamed Benefit Poetry Reading, boxes and boxes of manuscripts, masks! masks! masks!, wild flower-festooned pinecones,… Read more

Featured Alumni News

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  • Lea Aschkenas
    Her debut children’s book, Arletis, Abuelo, and the Message in a Bottle, will be published simultaneously in English and in Spanish by Star Bright Books in April, 2023. The Spanish edition was a Junior Library Guild selection.… Read more

  • Donna Spruijt-Metz
    Her debut poetry collection, General Release from the Beginning of the World, was released on January 1, 2023. Her book was chosen for publication by Brenda Hillman and published by Free Verse Editions, Palette Press.… Read more

  • Beverly Burch
    Her fourth poetry book, Leave Me a Little Want, was published by Terrapin Books. Her third, Latter Days of Eve, won the John Ciardi Prize.… Read more

  • Peter Scott
    His new book, Ecstatic Pessimist: Czeslaw Milosz, Poet of Catastrophe and Hope, focuses on Czeslaw Milosz, Nobel Laureate for literature. This biography of Czesław Miłosz is a first hand account of the poet’s life and his relationship to the author,… Read more

  • Mira Rosenthal
    Her new poetry collection, Territorial, was selected by Terrance Hayes and published in the Pitt Poetry Series in November, 2022.… Read more

  • Matthew Zapruder
    His new book, Story of a Poem, a memoir about writing poetry and fathering, is available for pre-order! “… the luminous, lyrical meditation on wringing from suffering and air, threaded with a singular, moving story about parenting an… Read more

  • Joann Gardner
    Her new book of poems, Heart’s Core, is now available from Finishing Line Press.… Read more

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