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  • 2020 Writing from the Senses
    Writing from the Senses: A Weekend Intensive with Janet Fitch:  Oct. 9-11, 2020. Sick of being a brain in a jar? Writing gone flat? Get back in touch with your senses in this weekend workshop,  Oct. 9-11. The human being… Read more

  • Fiction (And Memoir) First Aid
    Join us for private consultations: Fiction (and Memoir) First Aid! September 25, 2020, between 10 am and 5 p.m (Pacific) Private 15-Minute Appointments     $25 First-come first-served: appointments are limited. Quick fifteen-minute consultations will be offered on Zoom with some of… Read more

  • 2020 Alumni Reading Series (1)
    Each summer, recently published alumni are invited to return to the Valley to read from their books and talk about their journey from unpublished writers to published authors. This year we’ve decided to hold the reading online in the Virtual… Read more

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  • Literary Arts Emergency Fund Grant for the Community of Writers
    We are delighted to announce the Literary Arts Emergency Fund has provided the Community of Writers a grant for $15,000 to help us weather these difficult times. We would like to express our deepest gratitude to the organizers of the… Read more

  • The Newest OGQ is Here!
    The third issue of OGQ: Omnium Gatherum Quarterly, the new quarterly online magazine from the Community of Writers, is here. In this issue, we present an essay from one of our Community’s legends, the much-esteemed late novelist and journalist… Read more

  • Quarterly Roundup of New Alumni Books
    Books published by Alumni and Staff Authors in April – June, 2020 Congratulations to these Community of Writers Alums and staff members who have published books during the second quarter of 2020! We are thrilled to share their success with… Read more

Featured Alumni News

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  • Linda Olson
    Her debut memoir, Gone, will be published on October 27, 2020, from She Writes Press.… Read more

  • Iris Jamahl Dunkle
    Her new biography, Charmian Kittredge London: Trailblazer, Author, Adventurer, was published in September, 2020, by University of Oklahoma Press. Charmian Kittredge London (1871–1955) was the epitome of a modern woman. Free-spirited and adventurous, she defied modern expectations of femininity. Today… Read more

  • Lucinda Watson
    Her first book of poems, The Favorite, was published by Golden Antelope Press in September, 2020.… Read more

  • A.R. Taylor
    Her new novel, Jenna Takes The Fall, was published September 1, 2020 from She Writes Press.… Read more

  • Caroline Kim
    Her short story collection, The Prince of Mournful Thoughts and Other Stories, winner of the 2020 Drue Heinz Prize in Literature, will be published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in October, 2020.… Read more

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