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  • One-Night Short Courses from the Writers’ Annex
    The Community of Writers is proud to present a series of one-night courses as part of its 2026 offerings. We have created these as a response to feedback from our participants that five-week courses though immersive and fulfilling, may be… Read more

  • Gift of Deep Song: A Short Course on the Poetry of Federico Garcia Lorca
    Victoria Chang and Matthew Zapruder return to the Writers’ Annex this spring to explore the work of Federico García Lorca in this five-week short course from the Community of Writers. With an eye to the poet’s technique and with special… Read more

  • 2026 Poetry Program – June 22-28
    The Community of Writers is delighted to announce the Poetry Program which will be held in-person June 22-28, 2026 in Olympic Valley, California. Join our mailing list to learn when applications open and when teaching staff are announced.… Read more

  • 2026 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 10-17, 2026 in Olympic Valley, California. Join our mailing list to be informed when applications open and… 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 the 2026 Season of the Writers’ Annex
    The Community of Writers is pleased to announce the lineup for course offerings for 2026. This year, we hoped to make our course topics more diverse and less expensive. We have announced four new one-night courses led by esteemed Community… Read more

  • 2025 Quarter 2 & 3 Poetry Alumni News Roundup
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  • Announcing Issue 19 of the OGQ: The Omnium Gatherum Quarterly
    Our nineteenth issue of the OGQ (Omnium Gatherum Quarterly) features essays by Lisa Alvarez, Tara Dorabji, Amy Shimshon-Santo and Vishwas Gaitonde, a reprint from The Nation by Keenan Norris, a poem and essay by Nick Makoha, a poem and meditation by Charles Douthat, a poem by Larry… Read more

Featured Alumni News

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  • Andrew Tonkovich
    Santa Monica Review editor Andrew Tonkovich announces the arrival of the fall 2025 issue of the biannual literary arts journal. Celebrating both fiction and nonfiction, the issue features work by at least three CW alums: Warren Perkins, Reid Sherline, and… Read more

  • Makshya Tolbert
    MaKshya Tolbert’s debut collection, Shade is A Place, won the 2024 National Poetry Series, and is out November 4 (Penguin Books, 2025). More info here.… Read more

  • Vanessa Hua
    Vanessa Hua sold her first book of narrative nonfiction, Uprooted: A Chinese American Story of Survival and Resistance, braiding memoir, natural history, and sociocultural analysis to Tin House. It will be published in spring of 2027. More info here… Read more

  • Erin L. McCoy
    Erin L. McCoy’s debut poetry collection, Wrecks, was published by Noemi Press on Oct. 15, 2025, and was a finalist for the Noemi Press Book Award. The book was inspired by the great auk, a flightless seabird driven to… Read more

  • Pamela Pan
    Pamela Pan’s debut poetry chapbook Tasting Moments, set to be released by Finishing Line Press in January, 2026, is on presale now to Nov. 21. Rooted in personal history and resonant with universal truths, the twenty-one poems in this… Read more

  • Catherine Strisik
    Catherine Strisik’s 4th poetry book, Goat, Goddess, Moon was published by Holy Cow! Press in September, 2025. More info here.… Read more

  • Jill Pearlman
    Jill Pearlman’s chapbook, Diaspora of Things, has just been published by Finishing Line Press. It is a Proustian tale, at once ordinary and nightmarish. In the dismantling of a family home, the speaker finds that dispossession has liberated things: they… Read more

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