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  • 2021 Benefit Poetry Reading
    Join Us For An Extraordinary Evening of Poetry! This year we are pleased to welcome seven extraordinary poets including three Pulitzer Prize winners, a recipient of the Griffin International Prize, a former U.S. Poet Laureate, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award winner,… Read more

  • A Writer’s Toolkit – Build A Scaffold For Your Story: Techniques for Prose Writers and Screenwriters
    A Weekend Intensive with Patricia K. Meyer & Megan Fay Raveneau Friday, July 23 – Sunday, July 25. 3, 2-hour sessions. Identifying the dramatic structure of your story, whether it’s a memoir, novel, short story, or screenplay, is key.  A… Read more

  • 2021 Summer Workshops in Memoir & Narrative Nonfiction
    August 1 – 6 , 2021 in the Virtual Valley These workshops are designed to assist serious writers by exploring the art and craft as well as the business of writing. The week includes daily morning workshops, craft lectures, panel… Read more

  • 2021 Summer Poetry Workshop
    June 19 – 26, 2021 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… Read more

  • 2021 Summer Fiction Workshops
    July 11 – 17 , 2021  These workshops assist serious writers by exploring the art and craft as well as the business of writing —all online. The week offers daily morning workshops, craft lectures, panel discussions on editing and publishing,… Read more

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  • 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

  • Conversations from the Virtual Valley featuring David Ulin and Laura Cogan
    We are pleased to present another Conversation from the Virtual Valley with ZYZZYVA‘s Laura Cogan and Air/Light‘s editor David Ulin. The Community of Writers continues its series of literary conversations as part of our online literary journal, The … Read more

  • The 50th Anniversary Poetry Anthology featured in the newest issue of Blue Door magazine
    Read about the anthology in the Blue Door magazine: “The poems tell a California story and the story of the American West and American poetry,” Alvarez says. “Contributors include some of the country’s most acclaimed poets, along with those just… Read more

  • Announcing the Inaugural Kimbilio [Fiction] Scholarship Recipients
    The Community of Writers is delighted to announce our inaugural scholarships in partnership with Kimbilio [Fiction] Workshop! The remarkable writers who have been awarded these scholarships to attend the Community of Writers’ 2021 Fiction Workshop are: Hayward LeachDarlene Taylor Darlene and… Read more

Featured Alumni News

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  • Terence Clarke
    His new novel, The Moment Before, will be published on September 1, 2021. It is the third of a trilogy. The others are My Father in The Night and When Clara Was Twelve.… Read more

  • Jeanine Stevens
    Her chapbook, Gertrude Sitting: Portraits of Women, won the Heartland Review 2020 chapbook prize.… Read more

  • Tracy Fuad
    Her debut collection of poetry, about:blank, was chosen by Claudia Rankine as the 2020 winner of the AWP Donald Hall Prize and will be published by University of Pittsburgh Press in October, 2021. The book is available for pre-sale… Read more

  • Alicia Hokanson
    Her new collection, Perishable World, was published by Pleasure Boat Studio press in May, 2021.… Read more

  • Jen Siraganian
    She was recently inducted as the Poet Laureate of Los Gatos in April 2021. Selected by the mayor and members of the Los Gatos Library Board and Arts and Culture Commission after an unanimous vote, she will serve a three-year… Read more

  • Michelle Ruiz Keil
    Inspired by the Greek myth of Iphigenia and the Grimm fairy tale “Brother and Sister,” Michelle Ruiz Keil’s second novel, Summer in the City of Roses, follows two siblings torn apart and struggling to find each other in early… Read more

  • Lois Rosen
    Her new book of poetry, Diving and Rising, was recently published by Finishing Line Press.… Read more

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