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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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  • 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… 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

  • Remembering Robin Radin
    This summer, during our Writers’ Workshop week, we received the devastating news that our friend Robin Radin had passed. We want to honor the life and legacy of our dear friend, Robin Radin. Radin brothers (with Paul’s white horse Zum… Read more

  • Thank you for a Wonderful Summer
    All of us at the Community of Writers want to express our gratitude to all of you who were a part of our summer workshops. It was a fantastic season of summer programs! Participants and staff (our seasonal community) gathered… Read more

Featured Alumni News

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  • A.M. Sosa
    A.M. Sosa’s latest novel, And I’ll Take Out Your Eyes, will be published in October, 2025 by Algonquin Books. … Read more

  • Jimin Han
    Jimin Han’s latest novel, Dreamt I Found You, will be published by Little, Brown and Company in April 2026. Find it here.… Read more

  • Toni Ann Johnson
    In February 2026, Screen Door Press, an imprint of the University Press of Kentucky will publish the linked short story collection But Where’s Home? by Toni Ann Johnson. Winner of the 2024 Screen Door Press Fiction Prize, the book follows… Read more

  • Patricia K. Meyer
    Patricia K. Meyer launched a podcast: Daughters and Their Fathers: It’s Complicated, to explore the under-charted subject of daughters and how they are influenced and informed by the first man in their lives. Tune in to listen to experts… Read more

  • Amy Shimshon-Santo
    Amy Shimshon-Santo’s new book Piecework: Ethnographies of Place is available to preorder (Unsolicited Press, Year of Womxn Series). The book of essays, with prose poems sprinkled in, shares life lessons from collective action for access to the arts in urban… Read more

  • James Richardson
    James Richardson’s book, The Abolitionist’s Journal: Memories of and American Antislavery Family, published by High Road Books, won the Forward Reviews INDIE Gold Award for History 2022. More than 2,600 titles in 55 categories were considered. “Independent presses and… Read more

  • Devi S. Laskar
    Devi S. Laskar’s debut poetry collection, Self-Portraits Ex Machina, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press in November 2025. Her third novel, Midnight at the War, is forthcoming from Mariner Books in April 2026. Her debut spoken-word album, based… Read more

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