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  • 2027 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 26 to August 2, 2027 in Olympic Valley, California. More details to come. View the 2026 Writers… Read more

  • 2027 Poetry Program
    The Community of Writers is delighted to announce the Poetry Program which will be held in-person June 26 to July 2, 2027 in Olympic Valley, California. Details to come. View the 2026 Poetry Program information here. Join our mailing … 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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  • Announcing Issue 22 of the OGQ: The Omnium Gatherum Quarterly
    Our twenty-second issue of the OGQ (Omnium Gatherum Quarterly) features book excerpts by Mary Fariba Afsari, Mark Coggins, and Bubba Henson, an essay and poem by Molly Fisk, and Charles Harper Webb, a reprint from The New York … Read more

  • Thank you for a Wonderful Summer
    The 56th session of the Community of Writers Summer Writing Workshops has come to end, and after a few weeks to recover, all of us here at the Community of Writers want to express our gratitude to all of you… Read more

  • 2026 Quarter 1 Alumni News Roundup
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  • 2026 Poetry Benefit Reading
    Join us for an unforgettable evening of poetry live in the California Sierra Nevada, and streamed online from the comfort of your home. Our annual Benefit Poetry Reading will feature poems from our 2026 Poetry Staff: Kazim Ali, Ama Codjoe,… Read more

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  • Vishwas Gaitonde
    Vishwas Gaitonde’s in-depth feature ‘The People’s Symphony’ has been published in Serenade Magazine. It charts the journey of India’s child prodigy Lydian Nadhaswaram from his beginnings in India’s musical tradition to a jazz album and now, his composition a… Read more

  • Stella Santamaria
    Stella Santamaria’s poetry collection, California Silence, was awarded the Ottoline Prize and will be published by Fence in November 10, 2026. Available now for pre-sales by Itasca Books.… Read more

  • Vishwas Gaitonde
    Vishwas Gaitonde’s longform narrative ‘The Crème de la Crème of Tarzan Films’ (on the one serious, literate attempt to treat Tarzan’s source material with genuine cinematic ambition) was published by Counter Arts. More info here and here.… Read more

  • Gretchen McCullough
    Gretchen McCullough’s novel, The Wondrous Springs of Balmorhea, which focuses on the intrigue in a Civilian Conservation Corps Camp under Roosevelt’s New Deal set in West Texas 1936, will be published by TCU press in November 2026. More info… Read more

  • Marci Vogel
    Marci Vogel was awarded a Camargo Fellowship, an international residency in Cassis, France, supporting innovative work in the arts and humanities. Her hybrid monograph, XENO»GLOSSIA: An Illuminated Study of Christine de Pizan, was published with Parlor Press’s Illuminations Series… Read more

  • Kimball C Pier
    The Naked Therapist – Stories from the Inside, by Kimball C. Pier, Ph.D., was published in April of 2026 by Palmetto Publishing. More info here.… Read more

  • Wayétu Moore
    Wayétu Moore’s new novel, Habila, will be published by Viking on January 12, 2027. More info here.… Read more

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