Lauren Barbato
Writers Workshop, '17
Her short story “Fatherhood” appears online in the December 2020 issue of Hobart.
https://www.hobartpulp.com/web_features/fatherhood Attended with the help of Lojo Foundation Scholarship
Jenn Alandy Trahan
Writers Workshops Participant, '08, '17
Jenn Alandy Trahan’s short story, “The Freak Winds Up Again,” is the November 2020 issue (#271) of One Story.
https://www.one-story.com/index.php?page=stories&pubcode=os&story_id=271 Attended with the help of Carlisle Family Scholarship
Rhoda Huffey
Writers Workshops Participant, '85/ Writers Workshop staff, 2000 onward
Rhoda Huffey’s novel 31 Paradiso will be published by Delphinium Books in the spring of 2022.
http:// Attended with the help of attended on UCI scholarship
Susan Henderson
Writers Workshop Participant, '09
She judged the 2020 High Plains Book Award for Fiction (winner: Joe Wilkins’ Fall Back Down When I Die). She taught workshops for Hampton Roads Convergence of Writers and the Brandeis National Committee. And she was recently interviewed by Sean Murphy, Executive Director of 1455 Literary Arts, about books, the writing process, and more.
https://youtu.be/WsKXArIen5k Attended with the help of Lojo Foundation Scholarship
Lyndsey Ellis
Writers Workshops Participant, '17
Her debut novel, Bone Broth, will be published by Hidden Timber Books in spring 2021. Her short story, “Jazz & Other Words for Love,” appeared in issue 2 of the Community of Writers’ new online literary journal, Omnium Gatherum Quarterly.
http://hiddentimberbooks.com/2020/10/16/bone-broth-cover-reveal/ Attended with the help of Maat Scholarship (Waimea Williams)
Lauren Barbato
Writers Workshop participant '17
Her essay “What Would You Call It?” appears online at North American Review.
https://northamericanreview.org/ Attended with the help of Lojo Foundation Scholarship
Lisa Alvarez
Writers Workshops Teaching Staff; Writers Workshop Participant, '91, '92
Her poem “On the Origin of Karl Marx” appears in So It Goes, the annual literary journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library.
https://www.vonnegutlibrary.org/ninth-edition-contributors/ Attended with the help of UCI scholarship and Ancinas scholarship
Tyler McAndrew
Writers Workshop Participant, '19
His short story, “The Storyteller,” recently appeared on The Baffler.
https://thebaffler.com/fiction/the-storyteller-mcandrew Attended with the help of Gill Dennis Memorial Scholarship
Janine Kovac
Writers Workshop participant '11, '12, '14, '16
Her essay “Destination: Okay” will be featured in a new anthology What We Didn’t Expect: Personal Stories about Premature Birth, due out November, 2020, from Melville House and available now for pre-orders. Subject matter from this essay—specifically the science of language acquisition— was originally workshopped at the Community of Writers in 2011.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/647234/what-we-didnt-expect-by-melody-schreiber/ Attended with the help of 2011: George Pascoe Miller Memorial Scholarship; 2012: Carlisle Family Scholarship; 2014: Eschelman Scholarship
Rashaan Alexis Meneses
Writers Workshop Participant '17
She was recently honored as a 2020 Bainbridge Resident for The Seventh Wave, where her latest essay, “Foreign Domestic” is featured in their 11th Issue.
https://theseventhwave.co/foreign-domestic/ Attended with the help of The Ancinas Scholarship
Leslie Hsu Oh
Writers Workshop participant '14, '19
She recently received 2 gold medals from the NATJA Travel Media Awards. “Painting the Next Chapter,” published in Adventure Journal won gold in Lifestyle, Personality & Profiles and “What It’s Like to Break Bread in the Desert” in Saveur Magazine won gold in Family Travel.
http://www.lesliehsuoh.com Attended with the help of The O’Dwyer Scholarship
Susan Henderson
Writers Workshop Participant, '09
She has an essay in the upcoming anthology, Alone Together: Love, Grief, and Comfort During the Time of COVID-19, published by Central Avenue. All net profits will be donated to The Book Industry Charitable Foundation, helping indie booksellers in need.
http://LitPark.com Attended with the help of Lojo Foundation scholarship
Kris Newby
Writers Workshop participant '17
She was recently awarded a Nautilus Award (Silver) for her book Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons. With a Kirkus starred review, it was also listed as one of the “best books of 2019” by Bookworm and Stanford Medicine, as well as the #1 book in public health by BookAuthority.
http://www.krisnewby.com Attended with the help of Carlisle Family Scholarship
Maxima Kahn
Poetry Participant, '07; Writers Workshops Participant '06, '10
Her first full-length collection of poems, Fierce Aria, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press in summer 2020.
https://brilliantplayground.com Attended with the help of Mary Turnbull Scholarship
Elison Alcovendaz
Writers Workshop participant '16
His flash fiction piece, “The Assimilation of Boyboy Santos” (originally published in Lost Balloon magazine), was selected for inclusion in the Best Small Fictions 2020 anthology.
http://elisonalcovendaz.com Attended with the help of Carlisle Family Scholarship
Elizabeth Kadetsky
Writers Workshop Participant, '98, '04; Alumni Reader, '04
Her fourth book, The Memory Eaters, winner of the first Juniper Prize in Creative Nonfiction, was published by University of Massachusetts Press in March 2020. She is currently undertaking her second Fulbright fellowship to India.
https://www.amazon.com/Memory-Eaters-Juniper-Creative-Nonfiction/dp/162534502X Attended with the help of UCI scholarship
Alia Volz
Writers Workshops Participant, '11, '14
Her debut memoir, Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco, will be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in April 2020.
https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780358006091 Attended with the help of Oakley Hall Memorial Scholarship; Oakley "Tad" Hall Prose Scholarship
Susan M. Gaines
Writers Workshop Participant '94; Alumni Reading Series (Carbon Dreams) '01
Her new novel, Accidentals, was published by Torrey House Press in March, 2020.
http://susanmgaines.com Attended with the help of Scholarship
Clancy McGilligan
Writers Workshop Participant '17
His novella, History of an Executioner, was published in January, 2020, by Miami University Press after winning the 2019 Novella Prize.
https://www.clancymcgilligan.com/novella Attended with the help of SpringCreek Foundation Scholarship
Janine Kovac
Writers Workshops Participant '11, '12, '14, '16
Hers memoir, Spinning: Choreography for Coming Home, workshopped at Squaw Valley in 2011, 2012, 2014, and 2016, was awarded the 2019 National Indie Excellence Award for memoir.
https://www.janinekovac.com/spinning Attended with the help of George Pascoe Miller Scholarship ('11), Carlisle Family Scholarship ('12), Eshleman Scholarship ('14)
Lisa D Alvarez
Writers Workshop participant, '92, '93; Staff since '96.
Her poem “9 Line Cento for Now” was recently published by “What Rough Beast.”
https://www.indolentbooks.com/what-rough-beast-poem-for-november-15-2019/?fbclid=IwAR26heq8D1sxuyq7LGCMSDGJfJDPiiGpvDKHIkPg_gcBKQOiYHqsmCfd2J8 Attended with the help of UCI and the Ancinas scholarship
Ashley Wurzbacher
Writers Workshop participant '19
Her debut novel, Happy Like This, will be published by University of Iowa Press in October, 2019.
Attended with the help of Carlisle Family Scholarship
Ashley Wurzbacher
Writers Workshop participant '19
She was recently named one of the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” honorees, a prize that aims to “recognize young, debut fiction writers whose work promised to leave a lasting impression on the literary landscape.” Her debut novel, Happy Like This, will be published on October 15, 2019 from University of Iowa Press.
https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/5-under-35-2019/ Attended with the help of Carlisle Family Scholarship
Olga Zilberbourg
Writers Workshops Participant, '10
Her English-language debut Like Water and Other Stories was published by WTAW Press in September, 2019, and received a glowing review from The Moscow Times.
https://zilberbourg.com/2019/08/27/review-of-like-water-in-the-moscow-times/ Attended with the help of The Carlisle Family Scholarship
Ashley Wurzbacher
Writers Workshops Participant, '19
Her short story collection, Happy Like This, won Iowa’s 2019 John Simmons Short Fiction Award and will be released on October 15, 2019.
https://ashleywurzbacher.com/ Attended with the help of Carlisle Family Scholarship
Jenn Alandy Trahan
Writers Workshop Participant, '08, '17
Her short story, “They Told Us Not to Say This,” published in Harper’s Magazine in September 2018, was selected for The Best American Short Stories 2019.
http:// Attended with the help of Carlisle Family Scholarship
Yoav Potash
Writers Workshops Participant, '05, '08
The American Jewish Press Association is honoring Yoav Potash with a Simon Rockower Award for Best Personal Essay, for his piece titled “How I learned all Israelis are not my father,” published by J. The Jewish News of Northern California. The American Jewish Press Association bills the Rockower Awards as “the Jewish Pulitzers.”
https://www.jweekly.com/2018/04/05/broke-israels-thorny-exterior-tasted-sweet-center/ Attended with the help of Entrenkin Foundation Scholarship
Susan Henderson
Writers Workshop Participant, '09
Her novel, The Flicker of Old Dreams, (HarperCollins, 2018) won the Western Writers of America Spur Award, in the category of Best Western Contemporary Novel, and was chosen as an Honor Book for the Montana Book Award.
http://LitPark.com Attended with the help of Lojo Foundation Scholarship
Clancy McGilligan
Writers Workshop Participant '17
His novella History of an Executioner won the 2019 Novella Prize from Miami University Press, and will be published in 2020.
http://www.orgs.miamioh.edu/mupress/novella/ Attended with the help of SpringCreek Foundation Scholarship
Susan Henderson
Writers Workshops Participant, '09
Her novel, The Flicker of Old Dreams, won the Western Writers of America Spur Award in the category of Best Western Contemporary Novel, and was chosen as an Honor Book for the Montana Book Award. She was additionally awarded a Hawthornden International Fellowship and will spend a month writing at the Hawthornden Castle in Midlothian, Scotland.
http://LitPark.com Attended with the help of Lojo Scholarship
Juan Alvarado Valdivia
Writers Workshops Participant '13
His short story collection, Ballad of a Slopsucker, was published by the University of New Mexico Press in February 2019.
https://unmpress.com/books/ballad-slopsucker/9780826360571 Attended with the help of Carlisle Family Scholarship
Juliana Roth
Writers Workshops Participant, '17
Her screenplay for her film in independent development, What We Know, which follows a sexual assault survivor as she navigates the Title IX process, is a semifinalist in the 2019 Atlanta Film Festival’s Screenplay Competition and a finalist in the 2019 Socially Relevant Film Festival in New York. The crowdfunding campaign for the film is accepting donations until mid-March on Seed & Spark.
www.seedandspark.com/fund/whatweknowfilm Attended with the help of Carlisle Family Scholarship
Kate Wisel
Writers Workshop Participant '16
Her first book of short stories, Driving in Cars With Homeless Men, has won the prestigious Drue Heinz Literature Prize, which includes a substantial cash prize and publication by the University of Pittsburgh Press. She was selected by judge Min Jin Lee.
http://www.upress.pitt.edu/books/9780822945680/ Attended with the help of Carlisle Family Scholarship
Stephanie Austin
Writer's Workshop Participant, '12
Her short story “Carrion” will be in the spring 2019 issue of Pembroke Magazine. Her flash fiction piece “Stray” will appear in the June issue of the Jellyfish Review.
Attended with the help of Joe Heinrich Scholarship
Alex Luke
Writers Workshops Participant, '18
Her short story “Sweet Blood” was published in Issue 18 of SAND Journal, and nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
http:///sandjournal.com/ Attended with the help of Maat Scholarship
Dedria A. Humphries Barker
Writers Workshop Participant, '08, '15
Dedria Humphries Barker’s creative nonfiction book, Mother of Orphans: The True and Curious Story of Irish Alice, a Colored Man’s Widow, will be published in April 2019 by 2Leaf Press (distributed by The University of Chicago Press). In which four generations of black women recall their daring 19th century white matriarch, it is the story of Barker’s great-grandmother, Alice Donlan Johnson.
http://www.DedriaBarker.com Attended with the help of a community of writers tuition waiver.
Maxima Kahn
Poetry Participant, '07, Writers Workshops Participant, '06, '10
Her poems have appeared this year or are forthcoming in Sweet, The Louisville Review and Orbis Journal, and she was nominated for Best of the Net. Her essays appeared in Just How Cool Is That, The Creative Penn, Tiny Buddha and Positively Positive.
https://BrilliantPlayground.com Attended with the help of Mary Turnbull Scholarship 2010
Christine Granados
Writers Workshop Participant '09
Her second book of fiction, Fight Like a Man and Other Stories We Tell Our Children, which was published by the University of New Mexico Press in 2017, won the 2017 Writer’s League of Texas Fiction Discovery Prize in April 2018. The book received Honorable Mention for Best Latino Focused Fiction Book in English from the 2018 International Latino Book Award. Fight Like a Man was also the winner of the 2018 NACCS Tejas Foco Fiction Book Award.
http://www.ktep.org/post/words-wire-christine-granados Attended with the help of the Ancinas Family Scholarship.
Alex Espinoza
Writers Workshop Participant '04, '05, Writers Workshop Teaching Staff '13, '15, '17
His newest book, Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime, will be published in June, 2019, by Unnamed Press.
http://www.alexespinoza.com/ Attended with the help of the UC Irvine Scholarship for MFAs.
Alicia Upano
Writers Workshop participant '12
She won the 2018 James Jones First Novel Fellowship Competition for her novel, Big Music.
Attended with the help of the Mohr Scholarship.
Kirsten Whatley
Writers Workshops Participant, '06
Kirsten Whatley’s short nonfiction piece, “Only Moths,” appeared in PANK‘s Spring/Summer 2018 online issue, and was subsequently translated into Italian. Two of her Hawaii-based food stories recently appeared in AFAR (May 2018) and Saveur (Fall 2018).
http://www.kirstenwhatley.com Attended with the help of the Carlisle Family Scholarship.
Margaret C. Murray
Screenwriters Workshop, '87
In late September, she launched her 4th novel, Pillow Prayers—Love Ruined, Love Reborn after the Summer of Love, at Fourth Street Fine Art Cooperative in Berkeley, CA where much of her story takes place.
http://writewordspress.com/category/upcoming-book/ Attended with the help of National Endowment for the Arts
Jen Beagin
Writers Workshop participant '11
She recently made the short list for the 2018 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize.
Attended with the help of the UC Irvine Scholarship for MFAs.
Wayétu Moore
Writers Workshop Participant '09
Her new novel, She Would Be King, was released from Graywolf Press on September 11, 2018. She will be joining us next summer for our Published Alumni Reading Series.
https://www.wayetu.com/ Attended with the help of the Carlisle Family Scholarship.
Leslie Hsu Oh
Writers Workshop Participant ,'14
Her essay “K’E YIL YAL TX’I: SAYING SOMETHING,” first published in Alpinist Magazine and a Bronze medalist in the Family Travel category of the 2018 Solas Awards, was selected for Waymaking, an anthology of prose, poetry and artwork by women who are inspired by wild places, adventure and landscape, available now from Vertebrate Publishing. Her story “On the Line” was selected for Grace in Darkness, an anthology of metro D.C. women, available now from American University.
http://www.lesliehsuoh.com Attended with the help of The O'Dwyer Scholarship
Lauren Barbato
Writers Workshop Participant '17
Her short story “Old Girls, or, The Ordinary Adventure” was published in the spring 2018 issue of The Hopkins Review. Her short story “Former Marys” was also published in the spring 2018 issue of Blackbird.
http://hopkinsreview.jhu.edu/current-issue/old-girls-or-the-ordinary-adventure/ Attended with the help of The Lojo Foundation Scholarship
Akil Kumarasamy
Writers Workshops Participant, '15
Akil Kumarasamy’s debut novel, Half Gods, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in June 2018.
http://akilk.com Attended with the help of The Eshleman Scholarship
Teresa (T) Stores
Writers Workshop Participant '04
Her collection of short fiction, Frost Heaves, will be published by Green Writers Press in April 2018. This is her fourth book and her first collection of stories.
Attended with the help of Sallie Bell Scholarship
Jennifer Haupt
Writers Workshop Participant '09, '13
Her debut novel, In the Shadow of 10,000 Hills, was published on April 2, 2018, by Central Avenue Publishing.
http://jenniferhaupt.com/author/ Attended with the help of Carlisle Family Scholarship
Dylan Brie Ducey
Writers Workshop Participant, '15
Her two flashes, “Disorder” and “The Mother Knocks Again, Louder This Time” appeared in The Occulum in August, 2017. Also, a short story, “Jaconita,” appeared in Four Way Review in November, 2017.
https://www.dylanbrieducey.com/ Attended with the help of Carlisle Family Scholarship
Ben Hinshaw
Writers Workshops Participant, '17
His story ‘Brazil and Back’ appeared in the Fall/Winter 2017 issue of The Carolina Quarterly. Elsewhere, his story ‘Queen of the Forest’ placed third in the 2017 Bridport Short Story Prize, and his collection Exactly What You Mean won the 2017 Maurice Prize in Fiction. In January 2018, Ben received a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation.
http://benhinshaw.com Attended with the help of Carlisle Family Scholarship
Michael Andreasen
Writers Workshop Participant '07, Published Alumni '18
His debut collection The Sea Beast Takes a Lover was published February 28, 2018, by Dutton. Michael will be returning to Squaw Valley this summer as a part of the Published Alumni Reading Series.
Attended with the help of UCI Scholarship
Ramona Ausubel
Writers Workshop Participant '07, '12
Her new novel Awayland will be released from Riverhead Books this month.
http://ramonaausubel.com/ Attended with the help of UC Irvine Scholarship
Hilary Zaid
Writers Workshop Participant, '12
Her debut novel, Paper is White, was published in March 2018 from Bywater Books.
http://www.paperiswhite.com/ Attended with the help of The James D. Houston Memorial Scholarship
Michael David Lukas
Writers Workshop Participant '09
His second novel, The Last Watchman of Old Cairo, will be published March 13, 2018, by Spiegel and Grau.
http://michaeldavidlukas.com/ Attended with the help of The James D. Houston Memorial Scholarship
Wayétu Moore
Writers Workshop Participant '09
Her debut novel, She Would Be King, will be released in September 2018 from Graywolf Press.
https://www.wayetu.com/ Attended with the help of the Carlisle Family Scholarship
Hilary Zaid
Writers Workshop Participant, '12
Her debut novel, Paper is White, will be be released on March 13, 2018 from Bywater Books.
http://www.paperiswhite.com Attended with the help of The James D. Houston Memorial Scholarship
Sara Borjas
Writers Workshop Participant '13
Her debut collection of poetry, We Are Too Big for This House, will be published in 2019 by Noemi Press as part of the Akrilica Series.
http://http://www.noemipress.org/catalog/akrilica/ Attended with the help of UC Riverside Scholarship
Rachel Howard
Writers Workshop Participant, '13, Writers Workshop Staff, '17
Her novel The Risk of Us sold to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for publication in Spring 2019. It’s about a woman who longs to be a mother; the troubled child she and her husband take in from the foster care system; the inevitable tests children bring to a marriage; and the limits of human empathy coupled with the joys of new parenthood, and was pitched as appealing to fans of Jenny Offill, Rachel Cusk, and Sheila Heti.
http://www.rachelhoward.com Attended with the help of Carlisle Scholarship
Michael Andreasen
Writers Workshops Participant, '07
His debut collection The Sea Beast Takes a Lover will be available February 28, 2018, from Dutton. The collection features stories that have appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, McSweeney’s, Zoetrope: All-Story, and Quarterly West. “Andreasen has the soul of a poet and the heart of a yarn spinner; he breathes new life into familiar tropes via the ingenuity of his storytelling and his tendency to color outside the lines. The 11 refreshing stories in this debut collection are full of delicious detours, and ultimately they’re the point.” –Publisher’s Weekly
http:// Attended with the help of UCI Irvine Scholarship
Glen David Gold
Writers Workshops Participant, '96, '97 / Writers Workshops Teaching Staff
His memoir I Will Be Complete will be published by Knopf in June 2018.
Attended with the help of The UC Irvine Scholarship
Dave Essinger
Writers Workshops Participant, '09
His new novel Running Out was published by Main Street Rag Publishing Company in June 2017.
http://dave-essinger.com Attended with the help of Lojo Foundation Scholarship.
Katherine Vaz
Writers Workshops Staff and Participant, '88
Katherine Vaz’s new fifth book, The Love Life of an Assistant Animator & Other Stories Paperback, was published in April 2017 by Tailwinds Press. “What rich, eccentric, at times even farcical joys these stories evoke–and, at the same time, what poignant, aching sorrows. Vaz’s characters, from the gravity of their family ties to the folly and grace of their soaring aspirations, take us deep inside ourselves and our never-ending struggle to find our way in a world that changes far too fast around us.”– Julie Glass, author of Three Junes.
http://katherinevaz.com/ Attended with the help of the UC Irvine Scholarship
Jimin Han
Writers Workshop Participant '95
Her novel, A Small Revolution, was published in May 2017 (Little A Books). Los Angeles Review of Books called it “a novel of remarkably rendered extremes.…It is an ambitious and accomplished debut that pulls us out of our comfortable window seats and places us in a room, in a young woman’s heart, and in a nascent democracy’s earliest days.” It was featured as: A BuzzFeed Binge-Worthy Literary Book, one of Electric Literature’s 34 Books by Women of Color to Read This Year, one of Redbook’s 20 Books By Women You Must Read this Spring
http://jiminhan.com Attended with the help of Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation Scholarship
Michael Andreasen
Writers Workshop Participant '07
His debut collection The Sea Beast Takes a Lover will be available February 28, 2018, from Dutton. The collection features stories that have appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, McSweeney’s, Zoetrope: All-Story, and Quarterly West.
Attended with the help of UCI Scholarship
Jill Kolongowski
Writers Workshops Participant '14
Her first book, an essay collection called Life Lessons Harry Potter Taught Me, will be released by Ulysses Press in October 2017. Using a combination of personal stories and literary criticism, these essays grapple with the themes at the core of Harry and the trio’s journey and considers how the series shaped the worldview of a generation–from the need to hold tight to a sense of humor and wonder to the feminism of Hermione and the courage needed for the fight against oppression.
https://www.jillkwrites.com/ Attended with the help of St. Mary's MFA Scholarship
Bruce Rettig
Writers Workshops Participant, '12, and '15
He won first place for his memoir, Refraction, in the Pacific Northwest Writers Association’s 2017 Literary Contest. Over six hundred pieces were submitted to twelve contest categories, and final winners were announced at the conference and awards dinner in Seattle. PNWA is a nonprofit organization dedicated to authors and the development of writing talent from pen to publication through education, accessibility to the publishing industry, and participation in an interactive, vital writer community. Rettig’s memoir was workshopped at the 2015 Community of Writers Workshop. His website is BruceRettig.com.
http://www.pnwa.org/?page=winners2017 Attended with the help of The Carlisle Family Scholarship
Mary Kuryla
Writers’ Workshop Participant, '10.
Her collection Freak Weather: Stories was selected by Amy Hempel for the 2016 AWP Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction and was published by University of Massachusetts Press in November, 2017. This Fall, 2017, her short stories appeared in Shenandoah and The Denver Quarterly.
http://marykuryla.com/ Attended with the help of The Thomas P. Jones Scholarship
Alia Volz
Writers Workshop Participant, '11, '14
Her essay “Snakebit,” originally published in The Threepenny Review, has been selected for The Best American Essays 2017, guest-edited by Leslie Jamison. Available at a local independent bookstore near you in October.
http://aliavolz.com Attended with the help of Oakley Hall Memorial Scholarship, Oakley Hall III Fiction Scholarship
Janine Kovac
Writers Workshops Participant, '11, '12, '14, '16
Her debut memoir Spinning: Choreography for Coming Home was published by Moxie Road Productions on September 19, 2017. Originally conceived as a cognitive science primer, Spinning is a memoir that weaves the story of micro preemie twins with chronicle of the untimely end to Janine’s career as an international ballet dancer.
https://www.moxieroad.com/spinning/ Attended with the help of George Pascoe Miller (2011 ), Carlisle Family Foundation (2012), Dirk Eshleman (2014)
Jeff Solomon
Poetry Participant '00, Writers Workshop Participant '92
His book So Famous and So Gay: The Fabulous Potency of Truman Capote and Gertrude Stein was published in May 2017 by the University of Minnesota Press.
https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/so-famous-and-so-gay Attended with the help of UC Irvine Scholarship
Dylan Brie Ducey
Writers Workshops Participant, '15
Dylan’s short story, “The Perfect Mother,” appeared in The Tishman Review in January, 2017. A micro fiction entitled “Three a.m.” appeared in Minola Review in March, 2017. Another short story, “God Bless the Child,” appeared in Sou’wester’s spring 2017 issue. “The Dare” appeared in Split Lip in May, 2017. And Gargoyle published a short story, “Effacée Like Me,” in its 66th issue this summer. Her story, “The Talisman,” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and long-listed for Wigleaf’s Top 50.
http://www.splitlipmagazine.com/517-dylan-brie-ducey- Attended with the help of the Carlisle Family Scholarship
Christine Granados
Writers Workshop Participant '09
Her second book of fiction, Fight Like a Man and Other Stories We Tell Our Children, was published by the University of New Mexico Press, 2017.
http://christinegranados.com Attended with the help of the Ancinas Family Scholarship
Melenie Freedom Flynn
Writers Workshops Participant; '09, '10
Her nonfiction piece, “Message From Your Inmate,” won Vela Magazine‘s 2017 Nonfiction Contest. Melenie attended with the assistance of the Carlisle Family Scholarship.
http://http://velamag.com/message-from-your-inmate/ Attended with the help of The Carlisle Family Scholarship
Angie Chatman
Writers Workshops Participant, '12, '16
Her short story “Blue Bird, Blue Skies” recently appeared in Blood Orange Review.
http://bloodorangereview.com/angiechatman/blue-bird-blue-skies/ Attended with the help of Jamie Ford Scholarship, Carlisle Family Fellowship, Jessica O'Dwyer Scholarship
Kim O’Neil
Writers Workshop Participant, '09
Her first collection of stories, Fever Dogs, is forthcoming from Triquarterly Books/Northwestern University Press in summer 2017.
https://www.amazon.com/Fever-Dogs-Stories-Kim-ONeil/dp/0810135493/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1486944424&sr=8-1&keywords=fever+dogs Attended with the help of the UC Irvine scholarship.
Louis B. Jones
Writers Workshop Participant, '89, Staff
Louis B. Jones has an essay on Jane Austen in the Winter 2016 Three Penny Review, and a piece on Plato for the upcoming Spring, 2017 Three Penny Review issue. Louis originally attended the Community of Writers with the support of a UC Irvine Scholarship.
http://louisbjones.com Attended with the help of UC irvine Scholarship
Lisa Alvarez
Writers Workshop Participant '92, '93; Staff
Lisa Alvarez’s poem, “At The Free Clinic, 1977,” appears in the Fall 2016 issue of Huizache: The Magazine of Latino Literature. She is also happy to note a number of other alums are in the same issue. Lisa attended the Community of Writers with the support of a UCI scholarship and the Ancinas scholarship.
http://huizachemag.org/current-issue/ Attended with the help of UCI scholarship, Ancinas scholarship
Elison Alcovendaz
Writers Workshops Participant in Nonfiction, '16
Elison Alcovendaz’s essay “A Man’s ABCs of Miscarriage” has been published by The Rumpus. Parts of this essay were treated in workshop at the Community of Writers and read by Jason Roberts. The essay can be read here.
http://elisonalcovendaz.com Attended with the help of Carlisle Family Scholarship
Vanessa Hua
Writers Workshops Participant '08
Vanessa Hua’s debut short story collection, Deceit and Other Possibilities, has been getting great advance praise: O, The Oprah Magazine: a “searing debut”; Booklist: “an intriguing collection”; Bustle: “exactly what we need to be reading in this country right now, and probably always”; Nylon: “profoundly moving and impossible to forget.” She’ll be reading throughout the Bay Area, Nevada City, Los Angeles, Washington DC, and New York this fall. For more information, go to www.vanessahua.com
http:// Attended with the help of Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston Scholarship
Judy Batalion
Writers Workshops Participant, '11
Judy Batalion’s debut, White Walls: A Memoir About Motherhood, Daughterhood, and the Mess in Between, was published by NAL/Penguin in January.
http://www.judybatalion.com Attended with the help of The Carlisle Family Scholarship