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  • 2021 Dialogue for Fiction Writers: A Weekend Intensive
    December 3  – 5, 2021 The ultimate test of fiction writing is the dialogue scene.  It’s where we have to ride a unicycle around a ring while  spinning a dozen plates in the air. Good dialogue incorporates every other aspect… 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

  • 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

Recent News

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  • Announcing Issue 7 of the OGQ: The Omnium Gatherum Quarterly
    The fall issue of our online, in-house, invitation-only, COVID-era quarterly Community of Writers journal arrives, as you will note, with a lot of adjectival explanation.  Fortunately, the writing once again lives up to the hype, with poetry and prose which… Read more

  • Quarterly Roundup of Alumni Books
    Books published by Alumni Poets and Writers in July – September, 2021. Congratulations to these Community of Writers Alums who have published books during the third quarter of 2021! We are delighted to share their success with you. You can… Read more

  • Public Memoir & Narrative Nonfiction Events as Part of our Summer Workshops
    August 1 – 6 , 2021 in the Virtual Valley Join us for craft panels and readings which will take place as part of our workshop week. Offerings includes craft discussions, panels on editing and publishing, and staff readings, and… Read more

  • Quarterly Roundup of Alumni Books
    Books published by Alumni Poets and Writers in April – June, 2021. Congratulations to these Community of Writers Alums who have published books during the second quarter of 2021! We are delighted to share their success with you. You can… Read more

Featured Alumni News

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  • Michelle Bitting
    She was short-listed for the 2020 Montreal International Poetry Prize, and a finalist for the 2021 Coniston Prize, Ruminate’s “The Waking” Flash Prose Contest, and the 2020 Reed Magazine Edwin Markham Prize.… Read more

  • Julia Flynn Siler
    Her feature in Alta Journal, “The Safe Place That Became Unsafe,” won Folio’s national award in the category of Best Investigative Reporting.  This is the story about a predatory pastor who abused generations of Chinese boys and a follow-up… Read more

  • Tiphanie Yanique
    Her newest novel, Monster in the Middle, was recently published by Riverhead Books.… Read more

  • Lisa Alvarez
    Her short story, “Everyone was Singing Freiheit,” appears in the fall 2021 issue of Air/Light magazine.… Read more

  • Vishwas Gaitonde
    He was a finalist in The George Floyd Short Story Competition conducted by the Nottingham Writers Studio, in Nottingham, England. His story, ‘The Worth of a Miracle’ was included in the prize anthology Black Lives. An audio recording of… Read more

  • Rowena Leong Singer
    Her novel manuscript, All Manner of Beasts, has been selected as the winner in literary fiction in the 2021 Book Pipeline Unpublished Contest. In this novel, a wife becomes the hero to the husband who thought she needed saving… Read more

  • John Foran
    His newest novel, A Mistaken Hostage, was published in September, 2021.… Read more

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