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  • 2022 Poetry Workshop
    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 stronger and truer than before.… Read more

  • The 2022 The Writers Workshops
    The Writers Workshops: July 18-25, 2022 These workshops assist serious writers by exploring the art and craft as well as the business of writing. The week offers daily morning workshops, craft lectures, panel discussions on editing and publishing, staff readings,… Read more

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  • Quarterly Roundup of New Alumni Books
    Books published by Alumni & Staff Poets and Writers in January – March, 2022. Congratulations to these Community of Writers alum and teaching staff who have published books during the first quarter of 2022! We are delighted to share their… Read more

  • Announcing Issue 9 of the OGQ: The Omnium Gatherum Quarterly
    Andrew Tonkovich, editor Spring has sprung. Workshop applications are in, taxes filed, boosters available, wildflowers abloom, and the new OGQ…live. This issue of our online Community of Writers journal presents some of the best recent prose and poetry by… Read more

  • Announcing the 2022 Summer Workshops
    The Community of Writers is pleased to announce our Summer Workshops in Poetry and Prose – now in person and face-to-face once again POETRY – JUNE 18-25 WRITERS WORKSHOPS – JULY 18-25 This will be a particularly special year for… Read more

  • Quarterly Roundup of New Alumni Books
    Books published by Alumni & Staff Poets and Writers in October – December, 2021. Congratulations to these Community of Writers alum and teaching staff who have published books during the fourth quarter of 2021! We are delighted to share their… Read more

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  • Marilyn Kallet
    Her eighth book of poems, Even When We Sleep, will be published on June 1st from Commonwealth Books/Black Widow Press, Boston. These are bluesy love poems, songs of healing, poems of Jewish identity. The title comes from Paul Eluard’s… Read more

  • Andrew Tonkovich
    His essay on Michelle Latiolais’ novel SHE appears in a new collection, The Many Voices of the Los Angeles Novel (Cambridge Scholars Press). The essay, “Ariadne’s Thread or Things Befall Apart (Together) in L.A.: She by Michelle Latiolais,” appears alongside… Read more

  • Sands Hall
    Her piece on “finding current relevancy—and outrage—in the accusations of plagiarism that have long haunted a classic of the West: Wallace Stegner’s Angle of Repose” is out now in Alta.… Read more

  • Terence Clarke
    His fourteenth book, a story collection titled San Francisco, will be published on June 1, 2022. It is so titled because every story takes place in that city. One of the stories, “Crusts of Bread and Such,” will appear… Read more

  • Sholeh WolpĂ©
    Her most recent book Abacus of Loss: A Memoir in Verse (University of Arkansas Press, March 2022) is hailed by Ilya Kaminsky as a book “that created its own genre—a thrill of lyric combined with the narrative spell.” A short… Read more

  • Gretchen McCullough
    Her translation with the poet, Mohamed Metwalli’s book, A Song on the Aegean Sea will be published by Laertes Press, May 2022.… Read more

  • Linda Toren
    Raven Braids the Wind, from Wisdom through Manzanita Writer’s Press (MWP), is her first poetry collection to be published.… Read more

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