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  • Popup Course on To The lighthouse by Virginia Woolf – Led by Peter Orner
    Online Sundays: November 8 to 22, plus a bonus session to follow Following his courses on Joyce’s Ulysses and Melville’s Moby Dick, Peter Orner Presents a popup course on To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf. Over three weeks, and… Read more

  • 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

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  • 2026 Quarter 2 & 3 Writers Workshops Alumni News Roundup
    Welcome to our Quarterly Roundup of Alumni News, in which we highlight the achievements of our Community over the last three months or so. Learn about recent publications and awards, and catch up on more news from the Community of… Read more

  • 2026 Quarter 2 & 3 Poetry Alumni News Roundup
    Are you an alumnus of the summer workshops or a former teaching staff member? Do you have news to share? You can send us your news any time here.… Read more

  • 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

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  • KB Brookins
    KB Brookins’ poems “Limewire Taught Me” and Photo Booth” were published in Poetry Magazine‘s October 2026 issue. More info here.… Read more

  • Suzanne Roberts
    Suzanne Roberts’ new creative writing craft book, 52 Writing Prompts: Inspiration for the Creative Writer, is out from the University of Nebraska Press and is a 2026 NewPages Editor’s Choice. More info here.… Read more

  • Stella Santamaria
    Stella Santamaria’s, first collection of poems, California Silence, will be published by Fence Books in late November 2026. It won the Ottoline Book Prize in 2026 and was selected by Emily Wallis Hughes. More info here.… Read more

  • Elizabeth Chapman
    Elizabeth Chapman’s book of poetry, Our Long Float, won the 2026 White Pine Press Poetry Prize. A great many of the poems were originally written at the Community of Writers Poetry Week.… Read more

  • Cynthia Blakeley
    Cynthia Blakeley’s memoir, The Innermost House (Bright Leaf/UMass Press), won the 2025 Georgia Author of the Year Finalist Award. More info here.… Read more

  • Andrew Tonkovich
    Andrew Tonkovich (The Dairy of Anne Frank and Keeping Tahoe Blue), founding editor of Citric Acid, announces the latest issue of the Orange County, California-themed online quarterly literary arts journal. The fall 2026 issue celebrates OC’s newest… Read more

  • Nancy Huxtable Mohr
    Nancy Huxtable Mohr’s chapbook, Mute Gospel, won the 2026 Silent River Poetry Semi-Finalist Prize awarded by River Paw Press. Mute Gospel is available now for pre-order or in general will be available in early 2027. More info here.… Read more

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