Swathi Desai
Writers Workshop Participant ‘17, ‘18Her short story, “The Big Men”, appears in the June 30th, 2020 issue of Prometheus Dreaming.
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Magdalena Montagne
Poetry Workshop Participant '97Magdalena Montagne (formerly Mary Renga) is happy to announce that her first collection of poems, Earth, My Witness, will be published in August, 2020, by Finishing Line Press.
Janine Kovac
Writers Workshop participant '11, '12, '14, '16Her 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.
Attended with the help of 2011: George Pascoe Miller Memorial Scholarship; 2012: Carlisle Family Scholarship; 2014: Eschelman Scholarship
Rashaan Alexis Meneses
Writers Workshop Participant '17She was recently honored as a 2020 Bainbridge Resident for The Seventh Wave, where her latest essay, “Foreign Domestic” is featured in their 11th Issue.
Attended with the help of The Ancinas Scholarship
John Roberts II
Writers Workshops Participant, '18Part memoir, part detective story and part political thriller, his non-fiction book Reagan’s Cowboys: Inside the 1984 Reelection Campaign’s Secret Operation Against Geraldine Ferraro was published by McFarland & Company, Inc. in July, 2020.
Armen Davoudian
Poetry Workshop participant '18His chapbook, Swan Song, won the 2020 Frost Place Chapbook competition and is available for pre-order from Bull City Press.
Attended with the help of Barbara E. Hall Memorial Scholarship
lynne goldsmith
Poetry Workshop Participant '00Lynne Goldsmith’s poetry book, Secondary Cicatrices, won a Finalist Award in the International Book Awards.
Barbara B Ristine
Writers Workshops Participant '18Her novel, Faces of War, has been selected as a finalist in the Women’s Fiction Writers Association’s 2020 RISING STAR Award for Unpublished Women’s Fiction.
Barbara Fischkin
Writer's Workshop Participant '95Her piece on “Autism in the Time of Covid” was published in Statorec, as part of a 31-author series on the Pandemic – so that we won’t forget.
Jeff W. Bens
Writers Workshop participant '93His new novel, The Mighty Oak, will be out September 15, 2020, from Blackstone Publishing.
Vishwas R Gaitonde
Writers Workshops Participant, '14His short story “At Home and Away,” set against the backdrop of one of the bloodiest conflicts in recent memory, the Sri Lanka civil war, was published in the Spring/Summer 2020 issue of Epiphany.
Andrew Tonkovich
Fiction Participant '93His short story “Metonymy” was a finalist in the Solstice Summer Fiction Contest, and appears in the magazine’s current issue.
Jeff Bens
Writers Workshop participant '93His new novel, The Mighty Oak, will be out in September 2020 from Blackstone Publishing.
Lori Tobias
Writers Workshop participant '94, '95Her memoir, Storm Beat: A Journalist Reports from the Oregon Coast, is due out in September, 2020, from Oregon State University.
