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  • Words Are My Matter: a Short Course on the Craft of Ursula K. Le Guin
    Join us for a Short Course on the Craft of Ursula K. Le Guin, led by author Karen Joy Fowler. Along with weekly guests, Fowler will work through the life and craft of the esteemed author, poet and essayist. Course… Read more

  • 2024 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 8-15, 2024 in Olympic Valley, California. More Details Join our Mailing List… Read more

  • 2024 Summer Poetry Workshop
    The Community of Writers is pleased 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

  • 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

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  • 2023 Fall/Winter Alumni Roundup
    July – December, 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 Gatherum & Alumni News page, which is always up… Read more

  • Announcing the Special Guest Lineup for That Poetry, By Which I lived
    Toi Derricotte • Nick Flynn • Robert Hass • Edward Hirsch • Tyehimba Jess • Sharon Olds • Lisa Sewell | These poets join Major Jackson to celebrate the life and work of Galway Kinnell

  • 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

Featured Alumni News

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  • Louis B. Jones
    His essay, “Power Failure” was published in the Winter, 2024 Issue of the ThreePenny Review, edited by Wendy Lesser. Read it here.… Read more

  • Joseph Zaccardi
    Joseph Zaccardi’s new collection, Songbirds of the Nine Rivers, was published by Sixteen Rivers Press in 2023. During his time as a Navy corpsman in the Vietnam War, he found refuge in a volume of ancient Chinese and Vietnamese… Read more

  • Vishwas Gaitonde
    Vishwas Gaitonde’s collection of short stories, On Earth As It Is In Heaven, has won the 2023 Orison Fiction Prize, and will be published by Orison Books.… Read more

  • Joan Baranow
    Joan Baranow’s sixth collection, Reading Szymborska in a Time of Plague, won the Brick Road Poetry contest and was published in June 2023. Much of the book centers around the covid-19 pandemic; many were inspired by Galway Kinnell’s “Sheffield… Read more

  • Jay Aquinas Thompson
    Jay Aquinas Thompson is publishing a hybrid memoir, The Resurrection Appearances: Fragments of a Daybook, with Gold Line Press in January 2024. An account of a grief year told in dreams, poetry, myth fragments, and childhood memories, Resurrection received… Read more

  • Amanda Churchill
    Amanda Churchill’s debut novel, The Turtle House, will be published by Harper Books on February 20, 2024. Moving between late 1990s small-town Texas to pre-World War II Japan and occupied Tokyo, The Turtle House is an emotionally engaging story… Read more

  • Ananda Lima
    Ananda Lima’s short story collection Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil is forthcoming from Tor (a Macmillan imprint). Craft is a surreal linked stories collection revolving around the absurdity of our times, art, and writing, as well as a… Read more

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