Annual Reading Series in Fiction, Nonfiction and Memoir
Each summer, recently published alumni are invited to return to Olympic Valley to read from their books and talk about their journey from unpublished writers to published authors.
Alumni who have been part of this reading series include
Anita Amirrezvani,
Eddy Ancinas,
Michael Andreasen,
Ramona Ausubel,
David Bajo,
Aimee Bender,
Mauro Cardenas,
Jade Chang,
Rita Chang-Eppig,
David Corbett,
Charmaine Craig,
Ilana DeBare, Frances Dinkelspiel,
Heather Donahue,
Laurie Ann Doyle,
Cai Emmons,
Alex Espinoza,
Carole Firstman,
Joshua Ferris,
Stacey D. Flood,
Clare Frank,
Amy Franklin-Willis,
Caroline Frost,
Jamie Ford,
Vicki Forman,
Alison Singh Gee,
Tanya Egan Gibson,
Alan Grostephan,
Glen David Gold,
Jimin Han,
Judith Hendricks,
Susan Henderson,
Sara J. Henry,
Vanessa Hua,
Rhoda Huffey,
Michael Jaime-Becerra,
Alma Katsu,
Stephanie Kegan,
Mary Kuryla,
Chaney Kwak,
Krys Lee,
Paulette Livers,
Regina Louise,
Michael David Lukas,
Jessie Ren Marshall,
Peyton Marshall,
Marisa Matarazzo,
Mark Maynard,
Christina Meldrum,
Nayomi Munaweera,
Janis Cooke Newman,
Jessica O’Dwyer, Aline Ohanesian,
Marian Palaia,
Victoria Patterson,
Ismet Prcic,
Ramona Reeves,
Frederick Reiken,
Gail Reitano,
Andrew Roe,
Robin Romm,
Brian Rogers,
Elizabeth Rosner,
Katherine Seligman,
Adrienne Sharp,
Reid Sherline,
Julia Flynn Siler,
Jordan Fisher Smith,
Scott Sparling,
Ellen Sussman,
Kimball Taylor,
Lisa Tucker,
Juan Alvarado Valdivia,
Brenda Rickman Vantrease,
Mary Volmer,
Dora Calott Wang, M.D.,
Heather Young,
Andrew Winer,
Alia Yunis, and
Désirée Zamorano among others.
