Denise Nicholas
Writers Workshop Participant '01The 10th Anniversary edition of her novel, Freshwater Road, was recently named in Pacific Standard’s “A Martin Luther King Jr. Day Civil Rights Reading List.”
Omnium Gatherum: Alumni & Teaching Staff News
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Kathryn Machi
Screenwriting Participant '04 and '10, Fiction Workshop Participant '18.Her “Me, Too” dance thriller Buzz was recently sold as a TV movie to MarVista Entertainment in Los Angeles.
Cynthia Arrieu-King
Poetry Participant, '13Cynthia Arrieu-King’s project, Futureless Languages, is available now from Radiator Press. In it she wrestles with what is happening to the planet and to its nations. It is elegy on language as a home, whiteness, and what matters most to us in life.
Ann Tweedy
'97, '00, '04, '07, '12, '15A poem first written at the Community of Writers Poetry session entitled “The Aspen” was awarded second place in San Antonio Writers’ Guild’s annual contest in 2018. The poems “Anatomy of a Name” and “An Instant” and the creative non-fiction pieces “Rental Property” and “Storm” are forthcoming in the anthology Queer Voices: Poetry, Prose, and Pride, to be published by Minnesota Historical Society Press in May 2019.
Dedria A. Humphries Barker
Writers Workshop Participant, '08, '15Dedria 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.
Attended with the help of a community of writers tuition waiver.
Aida Salazar
Writers Workshop Participant '07Her debut novel, The Moon Within, was acquired by Nick Thomas at AALB/Scholastic. This free verse middle grade novel tells the story of 11-year-old Celi, whose life swirls with questions about her changing body, her first attraction to a boy, her best friend’s exploration of what it means to be genderfluid, and her mother’s insistence she have a Chicana moon ceremony for her first menses. Publication is slated for spring 2019; Marietta B. Zacker of the Gallt and Zacker Literary Agency negotiated the deal for North American English and Spanish rights.
Devi S. Laskar
Poetry Workshop participant '04, '08, '14, Writers Workshop participant '04, '15Her new novel, The Atlas of Reds and Blue, was published by Counterpoint Press in February, 2019.
Emmalie Dropkin
Writers Workshop participant '18She is the co-editor, along with Edie Meidav, of the new anthology Strange Attractors: Lives Changed by Chance. It will be released from the University of Massachusetts Press in March, 2019.
Edie Meidav
Writers Workshop Teaching Staff '16, '18She is the co-editor, along with fellow Community of Writers alum Emmalie Dropkin, of the new anthology Strange Attractors: Lives Changed by Chance. It will be released from the University of Massachusetts Press in March, 2019.
Cynthia Arrieu-King
Poetry Workshop participant '13Her book Futureless Languages was recently released by Radiator Press
Ella Martinsen Gorham
Writers Workshop Participant, '18Her short story, Protozoa, appears in the winter 2018 issue of New England Review.
Meg Waite Clayton
Writers Workshop Participant '00Her newest novel, The Last Train to London, will be published later this year as part of a two book deal with HarperCollins.
R.O. Kwon
Her essay “On Being A Woman in America While Trying to Avoid Being Assaulted,” was recently published by The Paris Review.
Danusha Lameris
Poetry Participant, '00Her poems are currently out, or forthcoming in: The New Ohio Review, The Gettysburg Review, TriQuarterly, Ploughshares, and The American Poetry Review. As of September 2018, she has served as the Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County, California.
Lex Williford
Screenwriting Workshop Participant '97, '04His novella, Balsa and Tissue Paper, is forthcoming as an ebook and in the forthcoming 2019 Solos issue of Ploughshares.
