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  • 2023 Summer Poetry Workshop
    The Community of Writers will offer the Poetry Workshop in-person in Olympic Valley. June 19-25, 2023. featuring 2023 poetry staff members Kazim Ali • Victoria Chang • Forrest Gander • Carmen Gimenez Smith • Brenda Hillman • Evie Shockley Special… Read more

  • 2023 Summer Writers Workshops in Fiction and Nonfiction
    The Writers Workshops in Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction and Memoir will be held in-person July 10-17, 2023 in Olympic Valley, California. Until we have our 2023 details available, you may learn more by viewing our 2022 Writers Workshops Page.  Full… Read more

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  • Thank you for an extraordinary summer!
    The 2022 Poetry Workshop participants! Poems, photocopiers, poetry elves, vegan muffins, handmade tablecloths, softball games, nature walks past roaring snowmelt waterfalls, quaking aspen trees, a live-streamed Benefit Poetry Reading, boxes and boxes of manuscripts, masks! masks! masks!, wild flower-festooned pinecones,… Read more

  • 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

Featured Alumni News

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  • Caroline Frost
    Her debut novel Shadows of Pecan Hollow was longlisted by the Center for Fiction for best first novel and shortlisted by the Crook’s Corner Book Prize for best debut novel set in the American south. She will be speaking on… Read more

  • Terry Shames
    Her newest, Murder at the Jubilee Rally, a Samuel Craddock mystery, was published in October, 2022.… Read more

  • Janice Obuchowski
    Her story collection The Woods has won the John Simmons Short Fiction Award through the Iowa Short Fiction Award Series and will be published in November, 2022.… Read more

  • Anna V. Q. Ross
    Her second book, Flutter, Kick, selected by Jeffrey Harrison for the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award from Red Hen Press, will be published by Red Hen Press on November 8th, 2022.… Read more

  • Javier Zamora
    His memoir, Solito, was published in September, 2023, and is a New York Times Bestseller.… Read more

  • Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
    Her third novel, On the Rooftop, was recently selected as Reese’s Book Club pick.… Read more

  • Ananda Lima
    Her fiction manuscript-in-progress, Craft, is a finalist for the 2022 Restless Books prize for New Immigrant Writing.… Read more

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