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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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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

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  • Jeanine Stevens
    She has published a new chapbook (pamphlet in the U.K.), Tea in the Nuns’ Library, (Eyewear Publishing Ltd). This collection of meditative, lyric poems is always on the move: from the quiet politeness of a garden lunch in England… Read more

  • James Davis May
    His second poetry collection, Unusually Grand Ideas, was published by LSU Press in February.… Read more

  • Chuck Joy
    His new collection of new poems called Vinyl, was published by What Why Aesthetics (Erie PA).… Read more

  • Kazim Ali
    Sukun: New and Selected Poems, by Kazim Ali, will be published by Wesleyan University Press in September 2023.… Read more

  • Jasmin Iolani Hakes
    Hula, the debut novel by Jasmin ʻIolani Hakes about a family navigating Hawaiian colonization alongside a burgeoning sovereignty movement, is set to release on May 2, 2023 with HarperVia.… Read more

  • Gail Reitano
    Her debut novel Italian Love Cake (Bordighera Press, 2021) is named 2023 Distinguished Favorite in General Fiction by the Independent Press Award. Italian Love Cake is available in two French editions, under the title Liberata, Éditions Anne Carrière (2022),… Read more

  • Elizabeth Filippouli
    Elizabeth Filippouli adapted and produced a play inspired by Alexander the Great that invites audiences to rethink the idea of greatness and re-imagine the personality of the statesman through the eyes of his tutor, the philosopher Aristotle. In this contemporary… Read more

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