Elaine Barnard
Writers Workshop participant '11Her short stories have won the first, third and fourth Strands International short story competitions.
Omnium Gatherum: Alumni & Teaching Staff News
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Sally Abbott
Writers Workshop participant '85, '01, '03, '06, '13Her novel Miami in Virgo was published by Woodbine Odyssey in October, 2019.
Yiskah Rosenfeld
Poetry Participant '01, '03, '19She has new poems in the current issues of Glintmoon and 2River View. Two were generated at the Community of Writers Poetry workshop. Her poem “Arterials” appears in the Fall 2019 issue of The Bitter Oleander.
Sharon Olds
Poetry Workshop staffHer newest book, Arias, was recently published by Penguin Random House.
Veronica Golos
Poetry Workshop participant '09Her new book of poetry, Girl, was recently published by 3: A Taos Press.
Mame Ekblom Cudd
Writers Workshop Participant '09, '11Her short story, “Into a Neat Line,” was a finalist in Glimmer Train’s Short Fiction Contest. Her novel, Shooting Rockets at The Moon, was a finalist in the Pirate’s Alley William Faulkner Society’s 2019 Novel-in-Progress category.
Erica Plouffe Lazure
Writers Workshop Participant '18Her short story “The Ghost Rider,” workshopped at the Community of Writers, took the editor’s choice award for Carve Magazine’s Raymond Carver short story contest and appears alongside an interview in the 2019 fall issue of Carve.
Andrew Roe
Writers Workshops Participant, '97, '04His short story “Is Someone Going to Say Something to the Woman Crying on BART?” will appear in the Winter 2019 issue of ZYZZYVA.
Joy J Ma
Writers Workshop Participant '04Her new book, The Deoliwallahs, will be published by Pan Macmillan India in December. It is a non-fiction account of her family and the stories of several Chinese Indians who were interned after the war between India and China in 1962.
Diane Schenker
Poetry Participant, '14, '19She has two poems coming out in Pen + Brush In Print No. 4. She will be participating in the launch party and reading on November 6, 2019 at Pen + Brush in New York City.
Merridawn Duckler
Writers Workshop participant '07Her chapbook of poems, Interstate, was recently published by from Dancing Girl Press.
Jeffrey Kingman
Poetry Participant '12His chapbook, On A Road, wherein he borrows words and phrases from Kerouac’s On the Road and adapts them for his own purposes, will be published November 22, 2019, by Finishing Line Press. This is Jeff’s first book publication.
Pallavi Dhawan, Tamika Thompson, Devi Laskar
Tamika Thompson Writers Workshop participant '15; Pallavi Dhawan Writers Workshop participant '15, Devi Laskar Writers Workshop participant '04, '15, Poetry Workshop participant '04, '08, '14Community of Writers alums Pallavi Dhawan, Tamika Thompson, and Devi Laskar have co-edited a new anthology called POC United: Graffiti, released on October 15 and available now through Aunt Lute Books.
Charles H Halsted
Poetry Participant, '18His first full book of poetry Extenuating Circumstances has been published by Finishing Line Press and is available through FLP and Amazon Books. Many of its poems were first conceived and written at the 2018 Poetry workshop. This publication follows his published chapbook Breaking Eighty.
Sharon McElhone
Writers Workshops Participant '06An excerpt from her memoir entitled “He Imitated a Stiff-Legged Frankenstein” appears in the Fall 2019 Volume IX issue of Label Me Latina/o.
Marianne Villanueva
Writers Workshop Participant, July 2014Her memoir-in-flash, A Prayer Answered, was in Signs, a special themed issue of Jellyfish Review: September 2019. Her story “Tu-an Ju” was in the Otherworld/Underworld of University of Hawai’i – Manoa’s e-zine vice-versa. Her story “Things She Can Take” was in the Prairie Schooner Winter 2018 special issue on Opioids.
Kathleen O’Toole
Poetry '01,' 03, '05, '09, '11Her latest poetry collection This Far was released in October, 2019. Her poems have recently been featured in Antiphon, Smartish Pace and are forthcoming in The MacGuffin and Public Poetry.
David Corbett
Writers Workshop participant '88, '89, 91, '99; Screenwriting Workshop participant '01His new book, The Compass of Character: Creating Complex Motivation for Compelling Characters in Fiction, Film, and TV, was published in November, 2019, by Writer’s Digest Books.
Eddy Ancinas
Writers Workshop participant '72The 70th Anniversary Edition of her SKADE Award-Winning book, Squaw Valley & Alpine Meadows: Tales from Two Valleys, was published in October, 2019.
Scott Edward Anderson
Art of the Wild participant, ‘92His newest book, Falling Up: A Memoir of Second Chances, was published by Homebound Publications as part of its Little Bound Books Essay Series in September 2019.
Vishwas R Gaitonde
Writers Workshops Participant, '14His essay, “Gandhi and the Mantle of the Mahatma” written to mark Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary (October 2nd) was published on Sept 6, 2019, in The Mantle, New York.
Joe Bardin
Writers Workshop Participant '01His essay collection, Outlier Heart: Essays From My Life As An Immortalist, was published by IFERS Press.
Anara Guard
Writers Workshops Participant '16Her new book of poetry, Hand on My Heart, will be published by New Wind Publishing on November 1, 2019.
Evan Brooke
Writers Workshop Participant '16His essay, “The Incredible Shrinking Sentence,” was recently published in the Fall 2019 issue of The Threepenny Review.
Lynne Goldsmith
Poetry Workshop participant '00Her new book, Secondary Cicatrices, was recently named winner of 2018 Halcyon Poetry Prize.
Deborah Casillas
Poetry Participant, '09, '12Her new book of poetry, Quiet at the Edge, has just been published by Finishing Line Press.
Ashley Wurzbacher
Writers Workshop participant '19Her 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 '19She 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.
Attended with the help of Carlisle Family Scholarship
