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  • 2027 Poetry Program
    The Community of Writers is delighted to announce the Poetry Program which will be held in-person June 26 to July 2, 2027 in Alpine Meadows in the California Sierra Nevada. Details to come. View the 2026 Poetry Program information here… Read more

  • 2027 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 26 to August 2, 2027 in Alpine Meadows in the California Sierra Nevada. More details to come.… Read more

  • Sailing to Byzantium: A Short Course on William Butler Yeats
    Brenda Hillman and Robert Hass return to the Writers’ Annex in the fall of 2026 for a short course on the poetry of William Butler Yeats. Working from a selection of the poets work, and with an eye to the… Read more

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  • Announcing Issue 22 of the OGQ: The Omnium Gatherum Quarterly
    Our twenty-second issue of the OGQ (Omnium Gatherum Quarterly) features book excerpts by Mary Fariba Afsari, Mark Coggins, and Bubba Henson, an essay and poem by Molly Fisk, and Charles Harper Webb, a reprint from The New York … Read more

  • Thank you for a Wonderful Summer
    The 56th session of the Community of Writers Summer Writing Workshops has come to end, and after a few weeks to recover, all of us here at the Community of Writers want to express our gratitude to all of you… Read more

  • 2026 Quarter 1 Alumni News Roundup
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  • 2026 Poetry Benefit Reading
    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 2026 Poetry Staff: Kazim Ali, Ama Codjoe,… Read more

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  • Ross Belot
    Sara Burant and Ross Belot have started an online journal for reviews and essays on poetry in translation. The journal has extended to book publishing of poetry in translation with the first book out September 15, Nicole Brossard’s The Backtalking … Read more

  • Gauri Awasthi
    Poet and filmmaker Gauri Awasthi’s poetry collection, Mother Wound (Trio House Press) will be released on on Oct 1, 2026 and is available for orders. Poet Eileen Myles describes the poems as “bright and incidental.” The collection examines the inheritance… Read more

  • Andrew Tonkovich
    Founding editor Andrew Tonkovich announces the award of a California Arts Council operations grant to Citric Acid, the Orange County, California-themed online literary and cultural arts quarterly now in its fifth year of publication. The journal features poetry, prose,… Read more

  • Joy Ma
    This September, Rutgers University Press will release The Deoliwallahs: The True Story of the 1962 Chinese‑Indian Internment, co‑authored by Joy Ma and Dilip D’Souza. The book brings long‑overdue attention to a chapter of Indian history that has remained… Read more

  • Lawrence Coates
    Lawrence Coates’s novella Boom, which was workshopped at the conference in 2023, was selected as the winner of the 2026 Fugere Book Prize for Finely Crafted Novellas. His book will appear in 2028 with Regal House Publishing. More info… Read more

  • Evan Brooke
    Evan Brooke’s debut novel, Madeline McKnight Signs Off, will be published by Atria/Simon & Schuster on November 3, 2026. More info here.… Read more

  • Jen Siraganian
    Jen Siraganian’s debut collection, Everything Has Been Moved, Even the Dead was awarded the 2026 Perugia Press Prize and is forthcoming in September 2026. Using a docupoetic lens, the poet traces a self shaped by history, fragmentation, and memory… Read more

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