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2025 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 7-14, 2025 in Olympic Valley, California. Join our mailing list to be informed when applications open and… Read more
I, Too, Sing America: a Short Course on Langston Hughes and his Contemporaries

led by Major Jackson and Emily Bernard On the eve of the centenary publication of The Weary Blues, Langston Hughes’s debut volume of poetry, we are proud to present, “I, Too, Sing America.” We celebrate Langston Hughes’s life as… Read more
A Short Course on Moby Dick: Things of this World and the Next, led by Peter Orner. October & November 2025

The Writers’ Annex is proud to present an upcoming course led by Peter Orner: Things of this World and the Next, a short Course on Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. Due to popular demand following Orner’s 2024 short course on… Read more

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Public Literary Events in Olympic Valley

We are pleased to present a week of public literary events in Olympic Valley as part of the 55th Summer Writing Workshops of the Community of Writers. Join us in July for craft talks, panels and readings from our esteemed… Read more
Announcing Issue 18 of the OGQ: The Omnium Gatherum Quarterly

Our eighteenth issue of the OGQ (Omnium Gatherum Quarterly) features essays by Freeman Ng, Barbara Tannenbaum, Ann Fisher-Wirth and Denise Ohio, a reprint from LARB by Andrew Nicholls, a poem and essay by Antonio De Jesús López, and poems by Yuki Tanaka and Andy Young… Read more
New Podcast Episode: Sameer Pandya on his novel, Our Beautiful Boys

This episode contains both parts of a two-part show featuring Community of Writers Board Mmber, novelist and short story writer Sameer Pandya on his newest novel, Our Beautiful Boys. It is receiving enthusiastic reviews as well as both popular and critical… Read more
Jason Roberts Wins the Pulitzer Prize

Congratulations to our Board Member Jason Roberts for winning the Pulitzer Prize in Biography for his book, Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life (Random House).… Read more

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Stella Santamaria

Stella Santamaria’s second poetry collection, PERPETUAL, is a finalist for the Two Sylvias Press Wilder Prize 2024. More info here.… Read more
Dan Alter

Dan Alter’s second collection, Hills Full of Holes, was published by Fernwood Press in March 2025. In addition, Take a Breath, You’re Getting Excited, a volume of his translations from the Hebrew of Yakir Ben Moshe, was published… Read more
Maw Shein Win

Maw Shein Win’s third full-length poetry collection, Percussing the Thinking Jar, was published by Omnidawn in Fall 2024. More info here.… Read more
Vishwas Gaitonde

Vishwas Gaitonde’s essay “Narnia Through Hindu Eyes” was published in Counter Arts. You can read it here. Find Vishwas’ website here.… Read more
Joy Ma

Joy Ma’s documentary “Voices of Deoli” sheds light on the untold stories of individuals interned in Deoli Camp after the brief Indo-China War of 1962. The film premiered at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival and will be screened… Read more
Rickey Fayne

Rickey Fayne’s debut novel, The Devil Three Times, was published by Little, Brown and Company on May 13, 2025. More info here.… Read more
Ann Bancroft

Almost Family, the debut novel of AWA affiliate Ann Bancroft, was awarded this month with both the Sarton Prize for best contemporary fiction and the Somerset Award for literary fiction. The novel is the story of three people who… Read more