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  • A Short Course: More on the Poetry & Poetics of Lucille Clifton – January 23 to February 13, 2025
    In 2022, Kazim Ali offered his original four-part course on the work of Lucille Clifton for the Community of Writers Writers Annex. Following the success of that course and the many requests he had for written versions of his lectures–which… Read more

  • LATIN AMERICAN DEATH TRIP
    Death is the subject of many of the greatest (most moving, innovative, funny, haunting, political, oneiric) Latin American poems of the 20th century, from José Gorostiza’s Death without End to Gabriela Mistral’s “Death Sonnets,” from Xavier Villaurrutia’s Nostalgia for Death… Read more

  • 2025 Poetry Program – June 21-27
    The Community of Writers is delighted to announce the Poetry Program which will be held in-person June 21-27, 2025 in Olympic Valley, California. Join our mailing list to learn when applications open and when teaching staff are announced.… Read more

  • 2025 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 7-14, 2025 in Olympic Valley, California. Join our mailing list to be informed when applications open and… Read more

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  • New Board Members Announced
    The Community of Writers is tremendously proud to welcome the newest members of our Board of Directors. Our board of directors has elected two esteemed individuals, Sameer Panda and Clyde Rodriguez, to join them at the helm of our institution… Read more

  • 2024 Quarter 3 Poetry Alumni News Roundup
    July – September, 2024 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 Gatherum & Alumni News page, which is always up… Read more

  • 2024 Quarter 3 Writers Workshops Alumni News Roundup
    July – September, 2024 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 Gatherum & Alumni News page, which is always up… Read more

  • Announcing Issue 16 of the OGQ: The Omnium Gatherum Quarterly
    Our sixteenth issue of the OGQ (Omnium Gatherum Quarterly) features essays and stories by Tyler Dilts, Susanne Pari, Andrew Tonkovich, Shi Naseer, Max Byrd, Steve Susoyev, Eugenie Montague, David L. Ulin, and Gina DeMillo Wagner, poems by Hermelinda Hernandez Monjaras,… Read more

Featured Alumni News

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  • Janine Kovac
    Janine Kovac’s The Nutcracker Chronicles: A Fairytale Memoir was a finalist for the American Best Book Award in the Performing Arts category. In their 5-star review, Readers Favorite had this to say: “The descriptions of [Kovac’s] emotional highs and lows… Read more

  • KB Ballentine
    KB Ballentine’s ninth collection of poetry All the Way Through will be released this November with Sheila-Na-Gig Inc. More info here.… Read more

  • James Toupin
    James Toupin’s first book, Upon the Century Called American, was issued in November 2024 by Main Street Rag Publishing. It tells, from the author’s point of view, histories running from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire through the… Read more

  • Yuki Tanaka
    Yuki Tanaka’s co-translation with Mary Jo Bang, A Kiss for the Absolute: Selected Poems of Shuzo Takiguchi, was published by Princeton University Press in November as part of The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation. This is the first… Read more

  • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel Dream Count will be published in March 2025 by Penguin Random House. Preorder here. More info here.… Read more

  • Ananda Lima
    Ananda Lima’s novel Craft Stories I Wrote for the Devil, published by Macmillan, is a 2025 Long List Selection of the American Library Association’s Carnegie Medal. The short list will be announced in November.… Read more

  • Alex Espinoza
    Alex Espinoza’s novel Sons of El Ray, published by Simon and Schuster, is a 2025 Long List Selection of the American Library Association’s Carnegie Medal. The short list will be announced in November.… Read more

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