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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
2026 Poetry Program – June 22-28

The Community of Writers is delighted to announce the Poetry Program which will be held in-person June 22-28, 2026 in Olympic Valley, California. Join our mailing list to learn when applications open and when teaching staff are announced.… Read more
2026 Summer Writers Workshops in Fiction, Memoir and Narrative Nonfiction

The Community of Writers is delighted to announce the Writers Workshops in Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction and Memoir which will be held in-person July 10-17, 2026 in Olympic Valley, California. Join our mailing list to be informed when applications open and… Read more

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Announcing Issue 19 of the OGQ: The Omnium Gatherum Quarterly

Our nineteenth issue of the OGQ (Omnium Gatherum Quarterly) features essays by Lisa Alvarez, Tara Dorabji, Amy Shimshon-Santo and Vishwas Gaitonde, a reprint from The Nation by Keenan Norris, a poem and essay by Nick Makoha, a poem… Read more
Farewell to Malcolm Margolin, author, pioneering publisher, and friend of the Community.

Malcolm – who died this week in Oakland at the age of 84 – was gifted with a uniquely consequential life. Immigrant to California from the East Coast establishment (Boston Latin School, Harvard), as a young man he discovered out… Read more
Remembering Robin Radin

This summer, during our Writers’ Workshop week, we received the devastating news that our friend Robin Radin had passed. We want to honor the life and legacy of our dear friend, Robin Radin. Radin brothers (with Paul’s white horse Zum… Read more
Thank you for a Wonderful Summer

All of us at the Community of Writers want to express our gratitude to all of you who were a part of our summer workshops. It was a fantastic season of summer programs! Participants and staff (our seasonal community) gathered… Read more

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Laura Creste

Laura Cresté’s debut poetry collection, In the Good Years, was published by Four Way Books in September of 2025. More info here.… Read more
Ellen Bravo

Ellen Bravo collaborated with Gary Tyler on his memoir, Stitching Freedom: A True Story of Injustice, Defiance and Hope. The book, which will be released by One Signal Publishers on October 7, earned a starred review from Booklist.… Read more
Ann Fisher-Wirth

Ann Fisher-Wirth has been appointed Mississippi Poet Laureate for the four-year term 2025-2029.… Read more
Kazim Ali

Kazim Ali received the 2025 Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism. More info here.… Read more
Janell Strube

Janell Strube’s debut novel, Adélaïde: Painter of the Revolution, will be published in January 2026. Inspired by the true story of one of the first women admitted to the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, Adélaïde: Painter of … Read more
Heidi Seaborn

Heidi Seaborn’s third collection of poetry, tic tic tic, was published by Cornerstone Press in September 2025. More info here.… Read more
Monika Rose

Monika Rose was appointed Poet Laureate of Calaveras County, 2024-2026. She co-directed the first three Annual Poetry Events in Calaveras County, 2022-2024, and organized the first annual Mother Lode Book Festival in May, 2025, and is organizing a November Poetry… Read more