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  • Gift of Deep Song: A Short Course on the Poetry of Federico Garcia Lorca
    Victoria Chang and Matthew Zapruder return to the Writers’ Annex this spring to explore the work of Federico García Lorca in this five-week short course from the Community of Writers. With an eye to the poet’s technique and with special… Read more

  • One-Night Short Courses from the Writers’ Annex
    The Community of Writers is proud to present a series of one-night courses as part of its 2026 offerings. We have created these as a response to feedback from our participants that five-week courses though immersive and fulfilling, may be… Read more

  • 2026 Summer Writers Workshops in Fiction, Memoir and Narrative Nonfiction
    The Community of Writers is delighted to announce the Writers Workshops in Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction and Memoir which will be held in-person July 10-17, 2026 in Olympic Valley, California. More information and to apply.… Read more

  • 2026 Poetry Program – June 22-28
    The Community of Writers is delighted to announce the Poetry Program which will be held in-person June 22-28, 2026 in Olympic Valley, California. Join our mailing list to learn when applications open and when teaching staff are announced.… Read more

  • Sailing to Byzantium: A Short Course on William Butler Yeats
    Brenda Hillman and Robert Hass return to the Writers’ Annex in the fall of 2026 for a short course on the poetry of William Butler Yeats. Working from a selection of the poets work, and with an eye to the… Read more

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  • 2026 Lucille Clifton Poetry Chair
    We are delighted to announce the 3rd Annual Lucille Clifton Poetry Chair at the Community of Writers. Congratulations to Kazim Ali who will hold the Lucille Clifton Poetry Chair in 2026. We bestow this distinction on Kazim as he prepares to join us as staff… Read more

  • 2025 Quarter 4 Poetry Alumni News Roundup
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  • The Community of Writers is pleased to announce our Nonfiction/Memoir program
    The Community of Writers is pleased to announce our Nonfiction/Memoir program. Those interested may submit memoir, narrative nonfiction, creative nonfiction, essays, and hybrid fiction/nonfiction forms.Our week together in the Sierra blends nonfiction/memoir writers along with writers of fiction, in the… Read more

Featured Alumni News

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  • Norman Minnick
    We Rode the Rhythms as One: On the Poetry of Etheridge Knight, edited by Norman Minnick, will be published in March by the University of Michigan Press. More info here.… Read more

  • Sarah Beth Jefferis
    Sarah Jefferis’ Lucky to Have You, a collection of narrative lyric poems that meditate on romantic loss and love, was published in May 2026 by Finishing Line Press. More info here.… Read more

  • Jeremy Cantor
    Jeremy Cantor’s second volume of poetry, Remodeling the Zen Master’s Kitchen, was published by Kelsay Books in 2025. More info here.… Read more

  • John Yewell
    John Yewell published the first novel printed entirely on broadsheet newsprint. The Botsworth Dossier is about White nationalism, the promise and perils of journalism, unrequited love, and a fair amount of mountaineering. It takes place almost entirely in Northern California,… Read more

  • Matthew Murrey
    Matthew Murrey’s second poetry collection, Little Joy, was published January 20, 2026, by Cornerstone Press (University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. His first collection, Bulletproof, selected by Marilyn Nelson for the Jacar Press full-length competition, was published in 2019. More… Read more

  • Parul Hinzen
    Parul Hinzen’s novel, Inside The Mirror, about twin sister artists in midcentury India, just won the Pattis Family Foundation Creative Arts Book Award, a $25,000 prize which recognizes books centering creativity and art.… Read more

  • Amy Pence
    Red Hen Press will release Amy Pence’s debut novel, YELLOW, in March of 2026. More info here.… Read more

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