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  • 2020 Benefit Poetry Reading
    CANCELED: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED DUE TO COVID19. STAY TUNED FOR MORE. An Evening With Beloved Poets Nationally Known Poets return to Nevada County Click on the author portraits to learn about these poets and their work. Or View … Read more

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  • Summer Writing Workshops in Squaw Valley Cancelled (But New Opportunities Available!)
    Dear Friends, We are sorry to report that we have been forced to cancel our summer workshops in Squaw Valley due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This was to be our 50th Anniversary session, and so we’re particularly sad that we… Read more

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

  • The Newest OGQ is Here!
    The second issue of OGQ: Omnium Gatherum Quarterly, the new quarterly online magazine from the Community of Writers, is here. In this issue, Robin Romm gives us her previously unpublished recent Community of Writers craft talk, to instruct and… Read more

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  • Shelley Blanton-Stroud
    Her novel, Copy Boy, will be published by She Writes Press, June, 2020.… Read more

  • Meryl Natchez
    Her second book of original poetry, Catwalk, is forthcoming in June, 2020, from Longship Press. Preorders available here.… Read more

  • Christine Sunderland
    Her seventh novel, Angel Mountain, has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. Set on Mount Diablo in the present day, the story is about a holy hermit, a Holocaust survivor, a literary librarian, and a Christian geneticist who… Read more

  • Lynne Goldsmith
    Her book, Secondary Cicatrices, won a Human Relations Indie Book Award for poetry.… Read more

  • Robert Stone
    The Eye You See With: Selected Nonfiction is a vast collection of Robert Stone’s nonfiction, from war reporting to literary criticism, and was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in March, 2020. Stone was a staff member from the very early… Read more

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