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  • The Memoir & Nonfiction Workshop presents Panels on Craft
    The Memoir & Nonfiction Workshop of the Community of Writers is proud to present Memoir & Nonfiction Panels on Craft in the Virtual Valley These panels are presented to the public as part of our summer Memoir and Nonfiction workshop… Read more

  • The Memoir & Nonfiction Workshop presents: Short Takes Staff Readings III
    The Memoir and Nonfiction Workshop of the Community of Writers  is proud to present “Short Takes” Memoir & Nonfiction Readings in the Virtual Valley These readings are presented to the public as part of our summer Memoir and Nonfiction workshop… Read more

  • 2021 Summer Workshops in Memoir & Narrative Nonfiction
    August 1 – 6 , 2021 in the Virtual Valley These workshops are designed to assist serious writers by exploring the art and craft as well as the business of writing. The week includes daily morning workshops, craft lectures, panel… Read more

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  • Public Memoir & Narrative Nonfiction Events as Part of our Summer Workshops
    August 1 – 6 , 2021 in the Virtual Valley Join us for craft panels and readings which will take place as part of our workshop week. Offerings includes craft discussions, panels on editing and publishing, and staff readings, and… Read more

  • Quarterly Roundup of Alumni Books
    Books published by Alumni Poets and Writers in April – June, 2021. Congratulations to these Community of Writers Alums who have published books during the second quarter of 2021! We are delighted to share their success with you. You can… Read more

  • Conversations from the Virtual Valley featuring David Ulin and Laura Cogan
    We are pleased to present another Conversation from the Virtual Valley with ZYZZYVA‘s Laura Cogan and Air/Light‘s editor David Ulin. The Community of Writers continues its series of literary conversations as part of our online literary journal, The … Read more

  • The 50th Anniversary Poetry Anthology featured in the newest issue of Blue Door magazine
    Read about the anthology in the Blue Door magazine: “The poems tell a California story and the story of the American West and American poetry,” Alvarez says. “Contributors include some of the country’s most acclaimed poets, along with those just… Read more

Featured Alumni News

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  • Alison Turner
    Her manuscript The Second Split Between was selected by Dorianne Laux to be the winner of the 2021 Catamaran Poetry Prize for West Coast Poets. The collection will be published by Catamaran in the fall of 2021.… Read more

  • Barry Garelick
    His book Out on Good Behavior: Teaching Math While Looking Over Your Shoulder was published by John Catt Educational, in January, 2021.… Read more

  • Paul Burgoyne
    His novel, Two Seasons, work-shoppped at the Community of Writers in 2010, was recently published and is available on Amazon. … Read more

  • DeWitt Henry
    The concluding collection of his trilogy of memoirs, Endings & Beginnings: Family Essays, was published in April, 2021, by MadHat Press, with an introduction by John Skoyles.… Read more

  • Anne Chadwick
    Splitting Heirs, written and illustrated by Anne Chadwick (McCaa Books,  July, 2021), reimagines her grandfather’s legal quest to find the rightful heirs of mysterious loner. In 1923, a puritanical lawyer teams with a profligate genealogist on an odyssey from… Read more

  • Lynne Thompson
    In February 2021, Mayor Eric Garcetti appointed Lynne Thompson Poet Laureate for the City of Los Angeles.… Read more

  • Hari B Khalsa
    Her chapbook of poems, She Speaks to the Birds at Night While They Sleep, won the 2020 Tebot Bach Clockwise Chapbook Contest and was published in July, 2021.… Read more

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