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  • The Short Course: Reading Milosz
    The Community of Writers is honored to present a six-week intensive series on the life and work of poet Czeslaw Milosz taught by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Robert Hass. Thursdays, January 20 – February 24, 2022 Czeslaw Milosz, who won the… Read more

  • 2022 Poetry Workshop
    The Poetry Program at the Community of Writers is founded on the belief that when poets gather in a community to write new poems, each poet may well break through old habits and write something stronger and truer than before.… Read more

  • The 2022 The Writers Workshops
    The Writers Workshops: July 18-25, 2022 These workshops assist serious writers by exploring the art and craft as well as the business of writing. The week offers daily morning workshops, craft lectures, panel discussions on editing and publishing, staff readings,… Read more

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  • Quarterly Roundup of New Alumni Books
    Books published by Alumni & Staff Poets and Writers in October – December, 2021. Congratulations to these Community of Writers alum and teaching staff who have published books during the fourth quarter of 2021! We are delighted to share their… Read more

  • Introducing The Writers’ Annex!
    The Community of Writers is delighted to announce our new project: The Writers’ Annex. Online, and year-round, The Writers’ Annex will be made up of short courses, seminars, workshops, and more. Our vision is to bring the creative insight and… Read more

  • Announcing Issue 7 of the OGQ: The Omnium Gatherum Quarterly
    The fall issue of our online, in-house, invitation-only, COVID-era quarterly Community of Writers journal arrives, as you will note, with a lot of adjectival explanation.  Fortunately, the writing once again lives up to the hype, with poetry and prose which… Read more

  • Quarterly Roundup of Alumni Books
    Books published by Alumni Poets and Writers in July – September, 2021. Congratulations to these Community of Writers Alums who have published books during the third quarter of 2021! We are delighted to share their success with you. You can… Read more

Featured Alumni News

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  • Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma
    His new translation of the classical Tamil masterpiece on ethics, power, and love, The Kural: Tiruvalluvar’s Tirukkural, was published by Beacon Press on January 11, 2022.… Read more

  • Lester Graves Lennon
    His third book of poetry, Lynchings: Postcards from America, was released the first week of January, 2022. The title section (all started in the Valley) consists of 13 poems that look at 12 lynching photographs, some of which were turned… Read more

  • Caroline Frost
    Her debut novel, Shadows of Pecan Hollow, comes out February 8 from William Morrow. It’s a gritty Texas thriller about a fierce woman and the partner in crime she can’t escape. Caroline workshopped a chapter from her novel at… Read more

  • Jennifer Sperry Steinorth
    Her newest work of poetry and visual art, Her Read: A Graphic Poem, was published in 2021 by Texas Review Press.… Read more

  • Shangyang Fang
    His poetry collection, Burying the Mountain, was recently published by Copper Canyon Press.… Read more

  • Nevada McPherson
    Her novel, Poser, will be published by Outcast Press in February, 2022. First in a noir series called the Eucalyptus Lane Novels, set in and around Palo Alto, CA, Poser offers a “class-conscious, peeping-Tom gaze into Silicon Valley’s bedrooms… Read more

  • Mary Kuryla
    Her novel Away to Stay comes out with Regal House Press in February, 2022.… Read more

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