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  • The Narrative Art: Scene & Story
    A weekend Intensive with Janet Fitch Friday, May 21 – Sunday, May 23. Five, 2-hour sessions. This class is led by bestselling novelist, Janet Fitch. As any agent or editor will tell you, it’s not enough to write beautifully. Have… Read more

  • A Writer’s Toolkit – Build A Scaffold For Your Story: Techniques for Prose Writers and Screenwriters
    A Weekend Intensive with Patricia K. Meyer & Megan Fay Raveneau Friday, July 23 – Sunday, July 25. 3, 2-hour sessions. Identifying the dramatic structure of your story, whether it’s a memoir, novel, short story, or screenplay, is key.  A… 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

  • 2021 Summer Poetry Workshop
    June 19 – 26, 2021 The Poetry Program at the Community of Writers is founded on the belief that when poets gather in a community to write new poems, each poet may well break through old habits and write something… Read more

  • 2021 Summer Fiction Workshops
    July 11 – 17 , 2021  These workshops assist serious writers by exploring the art and craft as well as the business of writing —all online. The week offers daily morning workshops, craft lectures, panel discussions on editing and publishing,… Read more

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  • Al Young, 1939 – 2021
    For over 30 years, Al was a vital member of the Community of Writers, teaching across the programs and serving on the Board of Directors. Many Friday night Follies found Al onstage, often part of the three-man Granite Chief quartet… Read more

  • It’s Pub Day! Our 50th Anniversary Anthology is Available Now!
    More than two years ago we set out to create an anthology to celebrate the story of our fifty-year-old summer writing workshop. It has been more work than we could ever have imagined, and an utter joy, but we did … Read more

  • 2021 LARB Publishing Workshop
    After many years of hosting founder Tom Lutz and other members of the Los Angeles Review of Books staff during the summer workshops, we’ve now begun making institutional collaborations of mutual benefit together. This summer, in addition to featuring members… Read more

  • The 50th Anniversary Poetry Anthology featured in The San Diego Union-Tribune
    Read about the anthology in the San Diego Union-Tribune: “The works featured in this rich new anthology are all the product of the Community of Writers, an annual gathering of poets who hunker down in the wooded beauty of… Read more

Featured Alumni News

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  • Lois Rosen
    Her new book of poetry, Diving and Rising, was recently published by Finishing Line Press.… Read more

  • Amy Tan
    A new documentary, Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir, recently premiered on PBS. Amy Tan is an intimate portrait of the groundbreaking writer that interweaves archival imagery, including home movies and personal photographs, animation and original interviews to tell the inspiring… Read more

  • Jennifer Sperry Steinorth
    An artifact of erasure at once poetry and visual art, Her Read, a graphic poem by Jennifer Sperry Steinorth will be published in full color and hardback by Texas Review Press in June, 2021. In the tradition of reusing… Read more

  • K.M. English
    Her debut full-length collection, Wave Says, was published by Kore Press on May 15, 2021.… Read more

  • Shangyang Fang
    His poetry collection, Burying the Mountain, will be published by Copper Canyon Press in October, 2021.… Read more

  • Mary Dixie Carter
    Her debut novel The Photographer will be published by Minotaur Books/ St. Martin’s Press (U.S.) on May 25, 2021 and by Hodder Books (UK) on May 13, 2021.… Read more

  • Stella Beratlis
    Her second poetry collection, Dust Bowl Venus, was published by Sixteen Rivers Press in May, 2021.… Read more

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