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  • 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

  • 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

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  • 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

  • Farewell to Malcolm Margolin, author, pioneering publisher, and friend of the Community.
    Malcolm – who died this week in Oakland at the age of 84 – was gifted with a uniquely consequential life. Immigrant to California from the East Coast establishment (Boston Latin School, Harvard), as a young man he discovered out… Read more

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  • Erin L. McCoy
    Erin L. McCoy’s debut novel, Underlake, is forthcoming from Doubleday in April 2026. Underlake is a richly glittering debut about the interlocked fates of two women, raised worlds apart, who must join forces on an extraordinary journey, diving leagues… 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

  • Jeanne Foster
    Jeanne Foster’s selected poems, curated and translated into Italian by Bianca Tarossi with Introduction, Ascoltando una conchiglia, was published this Summer 2025 by Molesini Editore Venezia. More info here.… Read more

  • Laura Creste
    Laura Cresté’s debut poetry collection, In the Good Years, was published by Four Way Books in September of 2025. More info here.… Read more

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