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  • A Short Course: Some of the Essential Emily – November 12 to December 10
    Our aim in this class is to look closely at about twenty poems over the course of five weeks. We recommend first of all reading the poems intensely, and in preparation, if you are inclined, to immerse yourselves in her… Read more

  • A Short Course: More on the Poetry & Poetics of Lucille Clifton – January 23 to February 13, 2025
    In 2022, Kazim Ali offered his original four-part course on the work of Lucille Clifton for the Community of Writers Writers Annex. Following the success of that course and the many requests he had for written versions of his lectures–which… Read more

  • 2025 Poetry Program – June 21-27
    The Community of Writers is delighted to announce the Poetry Program which will be held in-person June 21-27, 2025 in Olympic Valley, California. Join our mailing list to learn when applications open and when teaching staff are announced.… Read more

  • 2025 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 7-14, 2025 in Olympic Valley, California. Join our mailing list to be informed when applications open and… Read more

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  • Thank you for an extraordinary summer!
    With our summer workshops behind us, we are delighted to report that this was a particularly wonderful summer of poetry and prose. We saw rain, lightning, wind, and thunder, June nights below freezing and 90+ degree days in July, and… Read more

  • Announcing Issue 15 of the OGQ: The Omnium Gatherum Quarterly
    Our fifteenth issue of the OGQ (Omnium Gatherum Quarterly) features essays by R.O. Kwon, Cameron Walker, Sara Ellen Fowler, Dashka Slater, Rosa Lowinger, Jaclyn Moyer, Marguerite L. Harrold, Ismet Prcic, and Jason Roberts, and poems by Armen Davoudian … Read more

  • Join us for the Summer Workshops craft talks and panels – uploaded daily all week
    Stay abreast of our Summer Workshops in Fiction, Nonfiction and Memoir on our podcast feed. Subscribe via the links below, or on your podcast app! New episodes will also be added here daily. Listen Now Apple Podcasts Spotify Amazon Music… Read more

  • Register to watch the 2024 Poetry Benefit Reading in Olympic Valley and Live Online

    Poet Matthew Zapruder reads at the 2022 Benefit Poetry Reading in Olympic Valley
    Recorded on June 21, 2024 An unforgettable evening of poetry live in the California Sierra Nevada, and streamed online from the comfort of your home. Our annual Benefit Poetry Reading will feature poems from our Poetry Staff: Blas Falconer, Brenda… Read more

Featured Alumni News

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  • Patricia Spears Jones
    Patricia Spears Jones’ poetry collection, The Beloved Community, was a finalist for the Hurston-Wright Legacy Awards.… Read more

  • Meg Waite Clayton
    Meg Waite Clayton’s upcoming novel, Typewriter Beach, will be published by HarperCollins on July 1st, 2025.… Read more

  • Sue Parman
    Sue Parman’s short story, “Gannets and Ghouls,” appears in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine September/October, pp. 83-94. Her nonfiction memoir essay, “You Can’t Get There from Here,” won Travelers Tales, Eighteenth Annual Solas Awards Grand Prize Gold Winner for Best Travel… Read more

  • Ellery Akers
    Ellery Akers’ new book, A Door into the Wild: Poetry and Art, won the 2024 Blue Light Award and is forthcoming in September. Gary Young has called it a” sublime conjunction of word and image….an extraordinary conversation between dazzling… Read more

  • Edith Friedman
    Edith Friedman’s collection Reconstruction was chosen by Lee Ann Roripaugh as the 2024 Lefty Blondie Press First Chapbook winner, and will be released September 7, 2024. More info here.… Read more

  • Eugenie Montague
    Eugenie Montague’s new novel, Swallow the Ghost, was published on August 20, 2024 by Mulholland Books.… Read more

  • Cintia Santana
    Cintia Santana’s debut poetry collection, The Disordered Alphabet (Four Way Books), won the 2024 IPPY Bronze Medal and is a finalist for the Northern California Book Award in Poetry. More info here.… Read more

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