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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

  • 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. Learn More 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. More information and to apply.… 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 21 of the OGQ: The Omnium Gatherum Quarterly
    Our twenty-first issue of the OGQ (Omnium Gatherum Quarterly) features essays by Elana K. Arnold, Stephen Cooper, Mark Gozonsky, Mary Hester, Dillon Osleger,and Lisa K. Richter, a reprint from The ManifestStation by Nettie Reynolds, a poem and an… Read more

  • 2026 Lucille Clifton Poetry Chair
    We are delighted to announce the 3rd Annual Lucille Clifton Poetry Chair at the Community of Writers. Congratulations to Kazim Ali who will hold the Lucille Clifton Poetry Chair in 2026. We bestow this distinction on Kazim as he prepares to join us as staff… Read more

  • 2025 Quarter 4 Poetry Alumni News Roundup
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  • Molly Fisk
    Molly Fisk’s third poetry collection, Walking Wheel, a novel-in-verse about newlyweds making a life in California’s Surprise Valley in 1875, is out from Red Hen Press in April, 2026. More info here.… Read more

  • Preeti Vangani
    Preeti Vangani’s second book of poems, Fifty Mothers was published by River River Books in February 2026. More info here.… Read more

  • Lisa Richter
    Lisa K. Richter’s debut memoir, Fly, My Darling–the intimate story of her years together with musician and composer Lynda Roth–received a Kirkus starred review and will be in print, ebook, and audio April 21, 2026 from She Writes Press.… Read more

  • Norman Minnick
    We Rode the Rhythms as One: On the Poetry of Etheridge Knight, edited by Norman Minnick, will be published in March by the University of Michigan Press. More info here.… Read more

  • Sarah Beth Jefferis
    Sarah Jefferis’ Lucky to Have You, a collection of narrative lyric poems that meditate on romantic loss and love, was published in May 2026 by Finishing Line Press. More info here.… Read more

  • Jeremy Cantor
    Jeremy Cantor’s second volume of poetry, Remodeling the Zen Master’s Kitchen, was published by Kelsay Books in 2025. More info here.… Read more

  • John Yewell
    John Yewell published the first novel printed entirely on broadsheet newsprint. The Botsworth Dossier is about White nationalism, the promise and perils of journalism, unrequited love, and a fair amount of mountaineering. It takes place almost entirely in Northern California,… Read more

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