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  • 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 Gimenez • Brenda Hillman • Evie Shockley Special Guests:… Read more

  • 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. Until we have our 2023 details available, you may learn more by viewing our 2022 Writers Workshops Page.  Full… Read more

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  • 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

  • Quarterly Roundup of New Alumni Books
    Books published by Alumni & Staff Poets and Writers in January – March, 2022. Congratulations to these Community of Writers alum and teaching staff who have published books during the first quarter of 2022! We are delighted to share their… Read more

  • Announcing Issue 9 of the OGQ: The Omnium Gatherum Quarterly
    Andrew Tonkovich, editor Spring has sprung. Workshop applications are in, taxes filed, boosters available, wildflowers abloom, and the new OGQ…live. This issue of our online Community of Writers journal presents some of the best recent prose and poetry by… Read more

Featured Alumni News

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  • Molly Fisk
    Her fifth collection of radio commentary, Everything But the Kitchen Skunk, came out in November, 2022. She publishes this series herself; you can order it from your favorite independent book seller through Ingram.… Read more

  • Edward Gunawan
    His first prose-poetry chapbook, The Way Back, was published by Foglifter in November, 2022.… Read more

  • Charmaine Craig
    Her novel My Nemesis will be published by Grove Press in February, 2023. Her previous novel, Miss Burma, was longlisted for the National Book Award and the Women’s Prize for Fiction.… Read more

  • Steve Fujimura
    His debut poetry book, Sad Asian Music, was published by Finishing Line Press in October 2022.… Read more

  • Robert Thomas
    His new book of poetry, Sonnets with Two Torches and One Cliff, will be published in February, 2023, by Carnegie Mellon University Press, and is available for preorder now. 80 nontraditional sonnets explore love and jealousy—the traditional obsessions of… Read more

  • Alex Espinoza
    His short story, “Detainment,” was included in 2022’s Best American Mystery and Suspense. … Read more

  • Forrest Gander
    His collection of poetry, Knot, a project in collaboration with photographer Jack Shear, will be published by Copper Canyon Press in November, 2022.… Read more

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