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  • Poem First Aid 
    2020 Poem First Aid Private Consultations about a poem-in-progress. Camille Dungy • Gregory Pardlo •  Matthew Zapruder Friday, December 11, 2020 First-come first-served: appointments are limited. Quick ten-minute consultations will be offered in the Virtual Valley (though Zoom) with two… Read more

  • Fiction & Memoir First Aid
    Join us for private consultations: Fiction and Memoir First Aid! Saturday, December 5, 2020. Private 15-Minute Appointments     $30 First-come first-served: appointments are limited. Quick fifteen-minute consultations will be offered on Zoom with some of our wonderful writer-teachers, including Alex Espinoza… Read more

  • The Art of the Sentence
    A Weekend Intensive with Janet Fitch January 22-24, 2021 Pablo Neruda once said, “Two things make a story. The net and the air that falls through the net.” If the net is plot, character, scene and story, the air is … Read more

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  • Quarterly Roundup of New Alumni Books
    Books published by Alumni and Staff Authors in July – September, 2020. Congratulations to these Community of Writers Alums and staff members who have published books during the third quarter of 2020! We are thrilled to share their success with… Read more

  • Conversations from the Virtual Valley for Banned Books Week
    We are pleased to present another Conversation from the Virtual Valley with ALA and PEN America in celebration of Banned Books Week. For our second broadcast, we engage our commitment to intellectual freedom, free expression, free speech, and solidarity with… Read more

  • Literary Arts Emergency Fund Grant for the Community of Writers
    We are delighted to announce the Literary Arts Emergency Fund has provided the Community of Writers a grant for $15,000 to help us weather these difficult times. We would like to express our deepest gratitude to the organizers of the… Read more

Featured Alumni News

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  • Diane Wolff
    She will be giving a talk on her new book Batu, Khan of the Golden Horde: The Mongol Khans Conquer Russia for the Virtual Speakers Series of the American Center for Mongolian Studies in Ulan Batur. This is the first… Read more

  • Vishwas R Gaitonde
    His short story “How Does Your Garden Grow?” appeared in the 2020 issue of the literary magazine, The Broken Plate.… Read more

  • Darien Hsu Gee
    She will have two new titles published this year: Other Small Histories (Poetry Society of America, 2019 Chapbook Fellowship winner), and Allegiance: Micro Essays, in which she dissects her beliefs and navigates the complexity of family dynamics in search… Read more

  • Ellery Akers
    Her new poetry book, Swerve: Environmentalism, Feminism, and Resistance, was recently featured in The New York Times Magazine; Naomi Shihab Nye, the NYT editor, described the book as “powerful.”… Read more

  • Natasha Saje
    Her memoir-in-essays, Terroir: Love, Out of Place, was published by Trinity UP in November, 2020. The chapters contain arguments about immigration, nationality, gender, race, sexual orientation, class, and religion.… Read more

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