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  • Online and In-Person: Join us for an Extraordinary Evening of Poetry

    An image advertising a benefit poetry reading hosted by the community of writers featuring Robert Hass, Forrest Gander, Brenda Hillman, Gregory Pardlo, Evie Shockley, Jane Miller and Anthony Cody.Behind the images of the poets is a waterfall in Tahoe.
    June 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM Pacific Join us for 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… Read more

  • 2025 Poetry Program – June 21-27

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    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

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    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

  • I, Too, Sing America: a Short Course on Langston Hughes and his Contemporaries
    led by Major Jackson and Emily Bernard On the eve of the centenary publication of The Weary Blues, Langston Hughes’s debut volume of poetry, we are proud to present, “I, Too, Sing America.” We celebrate Langston Hughes’s life as… Read more

  • A Short Course on Moby Dick: Things of this World and the Next, led by Peter Orner. October & November 2025
    The Writers’ Annex is proud to present an upcoming course led by Peter Orner: Things of this World and the Next, a short Course on Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. Due to popular demand following Orner’s 2024 short course on… Read more

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  • Announcing Issue 18 of the OGQ: The Omnium Gatherum Quarterly
    Our eighteenth issue of the OGQ (Omnium Gatherum Quarterly) features essays by Freeman Ng, Barbara Tannenbaum, Ann Fisher-Wirth and Denise Ohio, a reprint from LARB by Andrew Nicholls, a poem and essay by Antonio De Jesús López, and poems by Yuki Tanaka and Andy Young… Read more

  • New Podcast Episode: Sameer Pandya on his novel, Our Beautiful Boys
    This episode contains both parts of a two-part show featuring Community of Writers Board Mmber, novelist and short story writer Sameer Pandya on his newest novel, Our Beautiful Boys.  It is receiving enthusiastic reviews as well as both popular and critical… Read more

  • Jason Roberts Wins the Pulitzer Prize
    Congratulations to our Board Member Jason Roberts for winning the Pulitzer Prize in Biography for his book, Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life (Random House).… Read more

  • A Short Course on Moby Dick: Things of this World and the Next, led by Peter Orner. October & November 2025
    The Writers’ Annex is proud to present an upcoming course led by Peter Orner: Things of this World and the Next, a short Course on Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. Due to popular demand following Orner’s 2024 short course on… Read more

Featured Alumni News

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  • Ann Bancroft
    Almost Family, the debut novel of AWA affiliate Ann Bancroft, was awarded this month with both the Sarton Prize for best contemporary fiction and the Somerset Award for literary fiction. The novel is the story of three people who… Read more

  • Michelle Yang
    Michelle Yang’s Memoir PHOENIX GIRL: HOW A FAT ASIAN WITH BIPOLAR FOUND LOVE launches on May 6, 2025, from Fifth Avenue Press. More info here.… Read more

  • Marianne Villanueva
    Marianne Villanueva’s fourth short story collection, Residents of the Deep, is forthcoming in August 2025 from Unsolicited Press. She has been granted admission to Yaddo this summer, where she will focus on completing her first novel, White Sails, Green … Read more

  • Charles Douthat
    Charles Douthat’s second collection of poetry, Again, was published by Unbound Editions Press in April 2025. More info here.… Read more

  • Karleigh Frisbie Brogan
    Karleigh Frisbie Brogan’s memoir, Holding: A Memoir About Mothers, Drugs, and Other Comforts, will be published by Steerforth in August 2025. Excerpts from this book won her a 2024 Oregon Literary Fellowship. More info here.… Read more

  • Dan Bellm
    Dan Bellm’s most recent translation, Central American Book of the Dead, by Mexican poet Balam Rodrigo, was a finalist for the 2024 National Translation Award. More info here.… Read more

  • Jason Roberts
    Jason Roberts’ book, Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life (Random House) was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Biography. More info here.… Read more

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