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  • A Short Course: Some of the Essential Emily – November 12 to December 10
    Our aim in this class is to look closely at about twenty poems over the course of five weeks. We recommend first of all reading the poems intensely, and in preparation, if you are inclined, to immerse yourselves in her… Read more

  • 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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  • 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… Read more

  • Announcing LATIN AMERICAN DEATH TRIP, led by Forrest Gander and Carmen Giménez
    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

  • Thank you for an extraordinary summer!
    With our summer workshops behind us, we are delighted to report that this was a particularly wonderful summer of poetry and prose. We saw rain, lightning, wind, and thunder, June nights below freezing and 90+ degree days in July, and… Read more

  • Announcing Issue 15 of the OGQ: The Omnium Gatherum Quarterly
    Our fifteenth issue of the OGQ (Omnium Gatherum Quarterly) features essays by R.O. Kwon, Cameron Walker, Sara Ellen Fowler, Dashka Slater, Rosa Lowinger, Jaclyn Moyer, Marguerite L. Harrold, Ismet Prcic, and Jason Roberts, and poems by Armen Davoudian … Read more

Featured Alumni News

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  • 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

  • Blas Falconer
    Blas Falconer’s newest poetry book, Rara Avis, was published by Four Way Books in September 2024. More info here.… Read more

  • Laura Paul
    Laura Paul’s new book, Film Elegy, was published by PRROBLEM Press in October, 2024. More info here.… Read more

  • Andrew Tonkovich
    Andrew Tonkovich curates a show of the painting, drawing, and writing of his mentor-teacher: “Peter Carr: Artist for Survival.” It opens at Cerritos College Art Gallery Monday, October 28 with a reception talk by Tonkovich: a long-ago student of the… Read more

  • Lisa Alvarez
    Lisa Alvarez’s short story “Strongman” appears in the new issue of About Place Journal. The issue is a special themed one titled Shaping Destiny: Election Season, Before, During and After. Alvarez read from the story at last summer’s… Read more

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