20I6 Summer Workshops... •PoetryWorkshop:June 18-25 •WritersWorkshopsinFiction,Nonfiction&Memoir:July 25-August 1The Community of Writers For 46 summers, the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley has brought together poets and prose writers for separate weeks of workshops, individual conferences, lectures, panels, readings, and discussions of the craft and the business of writing. Our aim is to assist writers to improve their craft and thus, in an atmosphere of camaraderie and mutual support, move them closer to achieving their goals. The Community of Writers holds its summer writing workshops in Squaw Valley in a ski lodge at the foot of the ski slopes. Panels, talks, staff readings and workshops take place in these venues with the spectacular view up the mountain.

...& Other Projects• Published Alumni Reading Series: Recently published Writers Workshops alumni are invited • to return to the valley to read from their books and talk about their journeys from • unpublished writers to published authors. • Omnium Gatherum & Alumni News Blog: Chronicling the publishing and other successes of its participants. • Craft Talk Anthology – WritersWorkshopinaBook: An anthology of craft talks from the workshops edited by Alan Cheuse and Lisa Alvarez.• Annual Benefit Poetry Reading: An annual event to raise funds for the Poetry Workshop’s Scholarship Fund.• Notable Alumni Webpage: A website devoted to a list of our notable alumni. • Facebook Alumni Groups: • Social media alumni groups keep the community and conversation going.• Annual Poetry Anthology: Each year an anthology of poetry is published featuring poems first • written during the Poetry Workshop in Squaw Valley.

THE COMMUNITY OF WRITERS

www.communityofwriters.org | info@communityofwriters.org | (530) 470-8440 | PO Box 1416 • Nevada City, CA 95959

The Workshops •PoetryWorkshop:June 18-25 •WritersWorkshops:July 25-August 1Week-long workshops are offered in June and July. The following pages include information about these programs and the teaching staff as well as application procedures.

Please note: The Screenwriting Program has been discontinued. Please see new Special Afternoon Adapation Class offered in the Writers Workshops.

AdmissionsAdmissions are competative and based on online applications with submitted manuscripts. Each program’s specific requirements for application are listed on page 13. Please apply early. Submissions must be received by the application deadline to be considered. Financial Assistance Limited financial aid is available for those who request it, from funds donated by generous individuals and institutions. Assistance is provided in the form of partial tuition waivers and scholar-ships, and may be requested in the application form. Please see our website for more details.

Frequently Asked Questions For more information, visit our website www.communityofwriters.org.

Dates & Deadlines

*Tuition subject to slight change without notice.

Squaw Valley Squaw Valley, a ski resort located in the California Sierra Nevada close to the north shore of Lake Tahoe, was the site of the 1960 Winter Olympics. Summers are warm and sunny; participants will have opportunities to hike to the local waterfalls, take nature walks up the mountain, swim in Lake Tahoe, or bike along the Truckee River. Travel & Logistics Squaw Valley is located seven miles from Tahoe City and ten miles from Truckee. It is a four-hour drive from the Bay Area, and an hour from the Reno/Lake Tahoe International Airport. Shuttle ser-vice is available from the airport to Squaw Valley. It is not necessary to have a car during the week. Upon acceptance, participants will be sent more information about airport shuttles, ride-sharing to the valley, and accommodations. Housing & Meals Most evening meals are included in the tuition, but participants are on their own for breakfast and lunch. There are cafes and restaurants and a small general store close to the conference headquarters. Houses and condominiums in the valley are rented for participant housing. Participants share these units and may choose single, double, or multiple occupancy rooms. Participants may, of course, arrange their own accommodations. We will send more information about our housing options, as well as local hotels, upon acceptance. For rates and options visit www.communityofwriters.org/work-shops/housing-meals/

Contact Information Brett Hall Jones, Executive Director(530) 470-8440 (until June 5) (530) 583-5200 (after June 5)info@communityofwriters.org

SUMMER WRITING WORKSHOPS

DIRECTORS executive director

Brett Hall Jones

ALuMNi reLAtioNS & deveLoPMeNt Amy Rutten

SUMMER WORKSHOPSFictioN

Lisa AlvarezLouis B. Jones

NoNFictioNMichael Carlisle

PoetrYRobert Hass

BOARD OF DIRECTORSPreSideNtJames Naify

vice PreSideNtJoanne Meschery

SecretArYJan Buscho

FiNANciAL oFFicerBurnett Miller

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FORTY-SIX YEARS

BRIEF HISTORYThe Community of Writers was estab-lished in 1969 by the late novelists Blair Fuller and Oakley Hall, who were both residents of the valley. The first workshop was held in August 1970 and was originally staffed by a band of San Francisco writers including David Perlman, Barnaby Conrad, and John Leggett, the latter two of whom went on to found, respectively, the Santa Barbara Writers Conference and the Napa Writers Conference. The Community of Writers continues to be directed by Brett Hall Jones.

Over the years the Community has hosted workshops in Fiction, Nonfiction, Screenwriting, Playwriting, Poetry, and Nature Writing (the Art of the Wild co-produced by Jack Hicks at the University of California at Davis) and Writing the Medical Experience (directed by David Watts.) Lisa Alvarez and Louis B. Jones now direct the Fiction Program, which was for twenty years directed by Carolyn Doty. Literary agent Michael Carlisle directs the Nonfiction Program. Galway Kinnell directed the Poetry Program for seventeen years; Robert Hass has directed it since 2004. Diana Fuller directed the Screenwriters Workshop, (founded in 1974 by screen-writers Tom Rickman and Gill Dennis)until 2014.

“Quite simply, it was one of the most inspiring and educational times of my writing life. The staff set such a loving, positive tone for the week, and the entire writing faculty followed suit. And to me, this was the central message: Writing is important, vital work. ” —Ryan Griffith

“I felt like I received an intense MFA in one week.”

—Amanda Coggin

“[The Community of Writers] is wonderfully open and free of all that hierarchy business. At Squaw, we are all writers.” —Adam Scott

“It was a week that can only be described as magical! I was inspired every second of every day during my time with the Community of Writers. The general vibe of this workshop is both warm and motivating, full of love and confidence, building both our art and our business. When describing my week to my family in San Diego the following Tuesday, I said simply ‘it was the best week of my life.’” —Clea Bierman

COMMUNITYOFWRITERS

Lisa D. AlvarezEddy AncinasRené Ancinas

Ruth BlankJan BuschoMax Byrd

Michael CarlisleNancy Cushing Evans

Diana FullerLouis B. Jones

Michelle LatiolaisEdwina Leggett

Lester LennonCarlin Naify

Jason RobertsJulia Flynn Siler

Christopher SindtAmy Tan

Nancy TeichertJohn C. WalkerHarold Weaver

Cora YangAl Young

“I couldn’t have been luckier in finding the Squaw Valley community. The opportunity to work with some of the best poets writing in the English language, their guidance, support, and the uniquely nurturing environment of this workshop have been a sustaining force in my work for over two decades.” —Meryl Natchez

“[...] a single week spent in the company of fellow poets has turned out to be one of the most vital and revolutionary experiences in my writing career. Just how Squaw works is a mystery to me, but it does and wonderfully so.” —Katie Kilcup

“I am really grateful for everything that Squaw Valley does to foster literary commu-nity and good writing on the West Coast. I’m glad for it abstractly and I feel its effects in my own life and writing.” —Becca Rose Hall

“It was an enormously inspiring and encouraging week, from which I continue to draw energy and insight. Though the word ‘community’ gets bandied about a lot, in Squaw Valley it felt like more than a word. I could feel the real bonds of friendship, collegiality, and affection that both hold this community together and attract kindred spirits. ” —Thomas H. Pruiksma

“As a recipient of the Lucille Clifton Memorial Scholarship, I was able to make the long journey from New York to California to encounter an incredible faculty whose poems had already nurtured my poetic life. The workshops were humanizing in a way that’s difficult to explain. I was inspired by the community and the landscape. I wrote poems that otherwise may have never been unearthed. It was truly a blessing.” —Ama Codjoe

Poetry WorkshopThe Poetry Program is founded on the belief that when poets gather in a community to write new

poems, each poet may well break through old habits and write something stronger and truer than before. To help this happen we work together to create an atmosphere in which everyone might feel

free to try anything. In the mornings we meet in workshops to read to each other the work of the previ-ous twenty-four hours; each participant also has an opportunity to work with each staff poet. In the late afternoons we gather for a conversation about some aspect of craft. On several afternoons staff poets hold brief individual conferences. Director: robert Hass. Tuition for the Poetry Program is $1,050 and includes seven evening meals. (Accommodations are extra.) Financial aid is available. See Application Guidelines, page 13.

The week includes:

• Daily morning workshops

• Poets have an opportunity to create new work daily

• Afternoon craft talks

• Individual one-on-one sessions

• Poetry Reading event

• 72 poets take part in the Poetry Workshop

• Naturalist-led nature walks

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Kazim Ali was born in England and grew up in India, Canada and the United States. His most recent book of poetry published in the US, Sky Ward, won the 2014 Ohioana Book Award in poetry. His other books include the poetry collections The Far Mosque and The Fortieth Day, the novels Quinn’s Passage and The Disappearance of Seth and cross-genre texts Bright Felon: Autobiography and Cities and Wind Instrument. He is also the author of three books of essays and translator of books by Marguerite Duras, Sohrab Sepehri and Ananda Devi. Forthcoming in the fall of 2016 is his first book of short fiction Uncle Sharif’s Life in Music. His volume of new and selected poems All One’s Blue was pub-lished in India. He is also a teacher of Jivamukti Yoga.

robert Hass is a poet, translator and essayist. Ecco/HarperCollins recently published his book of prose, What Light Can Do: Essays 1985-2010. His other recent books include his selected poems, The Apple Trees at Olema (Ecco/HarperCollins), Time and Materials (Ecco/ HarperCollins), which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and his edition of Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself and Other Poems (Counterpoint). His other books of poetry include Sun Under Wood: New Poems, Human Wishes, Praise, and Field Guide. He has also co-translated many volumes of the poetry of Czeslaw Milosz and is the author or editor of several other collections of essays and transla-tions, including The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa; Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry; and Now & Then: The Poet’s Choice Columns 1996-2000. HarperCollins will publish his next book of essays, A Little Book on Form: An Exploration Into the Formal Imagination of Poetry,

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in 2016. He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997. Awarded a MacArthur Fellowship and the National Book Critics Circle Award twice, he is a professor of English at UC Berkeley and directs the Poetry Program of the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley.

Juan Felipe Herrera is the 21st Poet Laureate of the United States (2015-2016) and is the first Latino to hold the position. From 2012-2014, Herrera served as California State Poet Laureate. Herrera’s many col-lections of poetry include Notes on the Assemblage; Senegal Taxi; Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems, a recipient of the PEN/Beyond Margins Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can’t Cross The Border: Undocuments 1971-2007. He is also the author of Crashboomlove: A Novel in Verse, which received the Americas Award. His books of prose for children include: SkateFate, Calling The Doves, which won the Ezra Jack Keats Award; Upside Down Boy, which was adapted into a musical for young audiences in New York City; and Cinnamon Girl: Letters Found Inside a Cereal Box. Herrera is also a performance artist and activist on behalf of migrant and indigenous communities and at-risk youth.

cathy Park Hong’s latest poetry collection, Engine Empire, was published in 2012 by W.W. Norton. Her other collections include Dance Dance Revolution, chosen by Adrienne Rich for the Barnard Women Poets Prize, and Translating Mo’um. Hong is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. Her poems have been published in Poetry, A Public Space, The Paris Review, McSweeney’s, Baffler, Boston Review, The Nation, and other journals. She is the poetry editor of The New Republic and is an Associate Professor at Sarah Lawrence College. Patricia Spears Jones is a Brooklyn-based poet and author of A Lucent Fire: New and Selected Poems from White Pine Press, which is a 2016 Finalist for the William Carlos Williams Prize from the Poetry Society

of America and seven other poetry collections and chapbooks. She is recipient of a Barbara Deming Fund award as well as awards from the Goethe Institute, the Foundation for Contemporary Art and the New York Community Trust and grants from the NEA and NYFA. She has taught at The Poetry Project, Poets House, and at University of Rhode Island, Manhanttanville College, and Naropa University summer programs. She is a lec-turer at CUNY.

Sharon olds is the author of nine books of poetry. The Dead and the Living received the National Book Critics Circle Award; The Unswept Room was a final-ist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and One Secret Thing was a finalist for the Forward Prize. She teaches at New York University’s Graduate Program in Creative Writing where she has been involved with N.Y.U.’s outreach workshops. ublished by Knopf in the US and Jonathan Cape in the UK in Fall 2012. Stag’s Leap won the 2012 T.S.Eliot Prize and the 2013 Pulitzer Prize. o

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Writers WorkshopsThe Writers Workshops in Fiction, Nonfiction and Memoir assist serious writers by exploring

the art and craft as well as the business of writing. The week offers daily morning workshops, craft lectures, panel discussions on editing and publishing, staff readings, and brief individual

conferences. The morning workshops are led by staff writer-teachers, editors, or agents. There are separate morning workshops for Fiction and Narrative Nonfiction/Memoir. In addition to their workshop man-uscript, each participant will have a second manuscript read by a staff member who meets with them in an individual conference. Nonfiction or memoir submissions should be in a narrative form; travel, self-help, how-to, and scholarly works will not be considered. Directors: Lisa Alvarez, Louis B. Jones & Michael carlisle

Tuition is $1,100, which includes six evening meals; a limited amount of financial aid is available. Admissions are based on submitted manu-scripts. See Application Guidelines, page 14.

The week includes:

• Daily morning workshops

• Afternoon & evening craft talks, panels on craft

• Literary readings by prominent writers

• Panel discussions on editing & publishing

• Individual one-on-one conferences

• “The Art of Revision” workshop led by

Mark Childress

• Special Afternoon Film-Adapation Class led by

Greg Bolotin

• Open Workshop led by Sands Hall

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Writers Lisa Alvarez’s essays and short stories have appeared in the American Book Review, Los Angeles Times, OC Weekly, Faultline, Santa Monica Review, Green Mountains Review and in anthologies, including Sudden Fiction Latino: Short-Short Stories from the United States and Latin America. Her poetry has appeared in Codex Journal, Huizache, Truthdig and Zocalo Public Square. With Alan Cheuse, she edited Writers Workshop in a Book: The Community of Writers on the Art of Fiction. She is a professor of English at Irvine Valley College and co-directs the Writers Workshops at the Community of Writers.

tom Barbash is the author of the award-winning novel, The Last Good Chance, and The New York Times Bestselling nonfic-tion book, On Top of the World. His stories and articles have been published in the Best American Non-Required Reading, Tin House, McSweeney’s, OneStory, Narrative, The Missouri Review, VQR, Men’s Journal, ESPN the Magazine, the Observer, The New York Times, Bookforum, Salon, The Believer, and other publications, and have been performed on National Public Radio for its Selected Shorts. NPR, Amazon, the San Francisco Chronicle, and The Independent of London selected his short story collection, Stay Up With Me, last year as a Book of the Year. [F/NF]

craig Bolotin is a screenwriter and film director. He has written and rewritten numerous screenplays for such directors as Ridley Scott, Francis Ford Coppola and Michael Apted. His feature film credits include That Night, Light It Up and Black Rain. He has adapted the work of sever-al novelists including Alice McDermott, John Updike and Hilary Mantel, and has taught at the American Film Institute and the Sundance Screenwriters Lab. [Adaptation]

Sarah Shun-lien Bynum is the author of two novels, Ms. Hempel Chronicles, a finalist for the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award, and Madeleine Is Sleeping, a final-ist for the 2004 National Book Award and winner of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize. Her fiction has appeared in many magazines and anthologies, including The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Tin House, the Georgia Review, and the Best American Short Stories. The recipi-ent of a Whiting Writers’ Award and an NEA Fellowship, she was named one of “20 Under 40” Fiction Writers by The New Yorker. She lives in Los Angeles. [F]

ron carlson’s newest novel is Return to Oakpine. He is the author of ten books of fiction, including the novel The Signal from Viking. His short sto-ries have appeared in Esquire, Harpers, The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, and other journals, as well as The Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize, The Pushcart Prize, The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction and other anthologies; they have been performed on National Public Radio’s This American Life and Selected Shorts. Ron Carlson Writes a Story, his book on writing, is taught widely. He is the author of a book of poems, Room Service. He has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Cohen Prize at Ploughshares, the McGinnis Award at the Iowa Review, the Aspen Literary Award; his novel Five Skies was selected “One Book Rhode Island” in 2009. He taught at Arizona State University for twenty years and is now Director of the Graduate Program in Fiction at the University of California, Irvine. [F]

Mark childress is the author of seven novels, three books for chil-dren, and several screenplays. A native of Monroeville, Alabama, his novels include A World Made of Fire, V For Victor, Tender, Crazy in Alabama, Gone For Good, One Mississippi, and Georgia

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Writers Workshops Teaching Staff

THE MORNING WORKSHOPSEach workshop consists of roughly 12 participants and features a dif-ferent workshop leader each day. In each session, the group usually discusses two participant manu-scripts. During the course of the week, each participant will have a manuscript critiqued in workshop. Participants are asked to arrive with copies of the manuscript they would like treated in workshop. Our directors will assign each par-ticipant to the most appropriate staff workshop leader.

The Fiction Program accepts roughly 96 participants, while the Narrative Nonfiction/Memoir Program accepts 24-25. Applicants who work across genres may want to apply to both programs simulta-neously, but will have to select one if accepted to both.

Each participant is assigned a brief one-on-one conference with a staff member appropriate to his or her manuscript. These conferences are scheduled at the mutual conve-nience of the participant and the assigned staff member and usually run no longer than twenty min-utes. In most cases, the manuscript to be discussed will be the one submitted with the application, although a different manuscript may be substituted.

INDIVIDUAl CONFERENCES

Morning workshops meet from 9-12. Afternoons and evenings are quite full, with optional lectures, panel discussions, staff readings, and other presentations. Participants are encouraged to set aside time for the reading and evaluation of workshop manuscripts.

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Bottoms. He lives in Key West, Florida. [Art of Revision]

Sands Hall is the author of the novel Catching Heaven, a Random House Reader’s Circle selection, and Tools of the Writer’s Craft, a book of writ-ing essays and exercises. Her short fic-tion has appeared in Green Mountains Review, New England Review, and The Iowa Review, and her produced plays include an adaptation of Alcott’s Little Women and the comic drama Fair Use. She teaches creative writing at Franklin & Marshall College, in Lancaster, PA. She recently produced a CD of her songs, Rustler’s Moon. [F]

dana Johnson is the author of the short story collection In the Not Quite Dark forthcoming from Counterpoint in 2016. She is also the author of Break Any Woman Down, winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, and the novel Elsewhere, California. Both books were nominees for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. Born and raised in and around Los Angeles, she is an associate professor of English at the University of Southern California. [F]

Louis B. Jones is the author of the novels Ordinary Money, Particles and Luck, California’s Over, Radiance, and Innocence. His short fiction and essays have appeared in The Threepenny Review, Open City, The Sun, Santa Monica Review, and The Pushcart Prize Anthology. He co-directs the Writers Workshops at the Community of Writers. [F]

edie Meidav is the author of three nov-els, most recently Lola, California (FSG) and Crawl Space (FSG), and a forthcom-ing book of both fiction and nonfic-tion, Kingdom Of The Young (2017). Her citations include a Lannan Fellowship, a Whiting research award, a Fulbright in Sri Lanka, the Bard Fiction Prize, a

Janet Heidinger Kafka award, and her work being called an editorial pick by sites including the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times. A former director of the MFA at the late New College of California, she is a senior editor at Conjunctions, teaches in the UMass Amherst MFA for Poets and Writers, and is serving as a judge for this year’s PEN/Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. [F] www.ediemeidav.com [F]

Joanne Meschery has published short stories, essays, and the novels, In A High Place, A Gentleman’s Guide to the Frontier, which was a PEN/Faulkner finalist, and Home and Away. She is also the author of a book of nonfiction, Truckee. Selwa Press has published two of her novels as ebooks. Her fiction is featured in the 40th Anniversary Anthology of Cutbank Magazine, 2013. She teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Sierra Nevada College. [F]

victoria Patterson is the author of The Little Brother. She is also the author of the novels The Peerless Four and This Vacant Paradise, a 2011 New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. Her story collection, Drift, was a finalist for the California Book Award and The Story Prize and was selected as one of the best books of 2009 by The San Francisco Chronicle.[F]

Kirstin valdez Quade is the author of Night at the Fiestas, which received a “5 Under 35” award from the National Book Foundation. She is the recipient of the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award and the 2013 Narrative Prize. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, and elsewhere. She was a Wallace Stegner and a Truman Capote Fellow at Stanford University, where she also taught as a Jones Lecturer. She’s been on the faculty in the M.F.A. pro-

MArK cHiLdreSS offers his “Art of Revision” workshop which will meet three days during the week, 3 - 5 pm, by invitation only. Participants will submit a story or chapter of which they have written one complete draft that is ready for revision -- no first-drafts-in-progress, please. The aim of the workshop will be not to give each writer a systematic evaluation of the manuscript, as in the morning workshops, but to use examples from the works in progress and classic literature to illustrate techniques a writer can use to move the work from first draft to finished manuscript. Each day of the workshop will address a different facet of the job: Story, Character, and Language. Participants will receive the workshop manuscripts in advance, and will be expected to read and mark the manuscripts before arriving in Squaw Valley. Indicate your interest in the application form. This workshop is limited to 12 participants. $165 fee.

THE ART OF REVISION

OPEN WORKSHOPSeveral afternoons during the week, SANdS HALL leads the Open Workshop, which provides anoth-er opportunity for participants to share their writing with their con-ference peers. Work is read aloud and discussed in a spontaneous and productive format. There is no extra fee for this workshop.

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Screenwriter GREG BOLOTIN will teach a class on Film Adapation, (six 90 minute afternoon sessions.)The class will teach a practical approach to adapting a novel into a screenplay. There will be an overview of the fundamentals of screenwriting as well as an analysis of the specific skills for a successful adaptation. We will examine a handful of adaptations, comparing and contrasting the films with the original material. Indicate your interest in the application form. This class is limited to 15 participants. $200 fee.

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grams at University of Michigan and Warren Wilson, and beginning in 2016, she will be an assistant professor at Princeton University. [F]

Jason roberts is the author of two works of narra-tive nonfiction, the national bestseller A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History’s Greatest Traveler (HarperCollins), and the forthcoming Every Living Thing. He is the inaugural winner of the Van Zorn Prize for fic-tion, awarded by Michael Chabon, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and The Guardian First Book Award. He also edits the 642 series of guidebooks (Chronicle Books), most recently 642 Stories To Write and 642 First and Last Lines. [NF]

Natalie Serber is the author of Community Chest, a novella-length memoir, and the story collection, Shout Her Lovely Name, a New York Times Notable Book of 2012, a summer reading selection from O, the Oprah Magazine, and an Oregonian Top 10 Book of the Pacific Northwest. Her fiction has appeared in The Bellingham Review, Gulf Coast, Inkwell, and Hunger Mountain. Essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times; O, the Oprah Magazine; The Huffington Post; The San Francisco Chronicle; The Oregonian; The Rumpus; Salon; and Fourth Genre. She lives in Portland, Oregon. [F]

Julia Flynn Siler is an author and journalist. She wrote The House of Mondavi and Lost Kingdom: Hawaii’s Last Queen, the Sugar Kings, and America’s First Imperial Adventure and is a former staff writer and foreign cor-respondent for The Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek. A graduate of Brown and of Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism, her work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other publications. She is writing a history set in turn-of-the-century San Francisco, forthcoming from Knopf. [NF]

dava Sobel, a former New York Times science reporter, is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Longitude, which was the subject of a PBS science program “NOVA,” and Granada Films created a dramatic version starring Jeremy Irons and Michael Gambon for A&E. Her nonfiction book Galileo’s Daughter was a #1 New York Times bestseller and won a 1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a Christopher Award, was a finalist for the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in biog-raphy and was the subject of a two-hour Emmy Award-winning “NOVA” documentary. She is also the author of the books The Planets and A More Perfect Heaven. A long-time science contributor to Harvard Magazine, Audubon,

Discover, Life, Omni, and The New Yorker. Bloomsbury has just released a stand-alone edition of her Copernicus play, And the Sun Stood Still, which was be produced in 2014 by the Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company in Colorado. She was editor of the collection Best American Science Writing 2004, published by Ecco Press. Her new book, The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars, will be published by Viking in December. www.davasobel.com [NF]

Gregory Spatz’s most recent book publications are a short story collection, Half as Happy (Washington State Book Award finalist) and the novel Inukshuk. Recipient of a 2012 NEA literature fellowship, his stories have appeared in The New England Review, Glimmer Train Stories, Santa Monica Review, Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, ZYZZYVA, The New Yorker and elsewhere. He teaches in and directs the creative writing MFA program at Eastern Washington University; he also plays fiddle in the twice Juno-nominated bluegrass band John Reischman and the Jaybirds, and bouzouki in the acoustic world music quar-tet Mighty Squirrel. [F]

elizabeth tallent is the author of Museum Pieces, a novel, and the story collections In Constant Flight, Time with Children, Honey, and most recently, Mendocino Fire. Her work has been included in The Pushcart, The O. Henry Prize Stories, Best American Short Stories, and Best American Essays, and her memoir is forthcoming from Harper. She teaches in Stanford’s Creative Writing Program and lives on the Mendocino Coast. [F]

Héctor tobar is the author of four books, including the novel The Barbarian Nurseries and the nonfiction book Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine and the Miracle that Set Them Free, both published by FSG. A veteran journalist and foreign corre-spondent, he is currently an op-ed columnist for The New York Times and an Assistant Professor at the University of Oregon. [F/NF]

Jane vandenburgh is the award-winning author of two novels, Failure to Zigzag and The Physics of Sunset, as well as Architecture of the Novel: A Writer’s Handbook and two memoirs, The Pocket History of Sex in the 20th Century and The Wrong Dog Dream: A True Romance. She has taught writing and literature at UC Davis, The George Washington University, and most recently at Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, CA. She lives with her family in the San Francisco Bay Area. [F/NF]

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Mary volmer is the author of two novels: Crown of Dust and Reliance, Illinois. She earned an MFA at Saint Mary’s College (CA) and a masters’ degree from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, where she was a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar. She has been awarded residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and Hedgebrook. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in magazines and journals such as the Farallon Review, Mutha Magazine and Women’s Basketball Magazine and featured on Stories on Stage (Sacramento). She teaches at Saint Mary’s College. [F]

Al Young is the author of 25 books (novels, poetry collections, and anthol-ogies.) He is currently Distinguished Professor in the MFA In Writing Program at California College of the Arts, San Francisco, where he conducts seminars in creativity and imaginative writing. From 2005-2008, he served as California’s first official Poet Laureate. His honors include two Pushcart Prizes, NEA, Guggenheim, Woodrow Wilson, Fulbright Fellowships, the Richard Wright Award for Literary Excellence, and the 2011 Thomas Wolfe Award. Three titles will appear in 2016: 22 Moon Poems, October Variations, and Love Offline (City Lights Books). Since the early 1980s, Al Young has been a Community of Writers stalwart serv-ing as teaching staff and a member of the Board of Directors. [F/NF]

reagan Arthur is Senior Vice President and Publisher of Little, Brown, a division of the Hachette Book Group. She joined Little, Brown in 2001 after spending more than ten years at St. Martin’s Press and Picador

USA. Writers she has worked with include Kate Atkinson, Joshua Ferris, Tina Fey, Elin Hilderbrand, James Patterson, George Pelecanos, Megan Abbott, Nina Stibbe, Eleanor Catton, and Ian Rankin.

Michael v. carlisle, a founder of InkWell Management, has been involved with the Community of Writers for many years. His fiction and nonfiction client list includes prize-winning as well as debut authors. A former director of the Association of Author’s Representatives, a not-for-profit organization of indepen-dent literary and dramatic agents, Michael is an active member of PEN. He directs the Nonfiction Program of the Community of Writers and serves on the Board of Directors.

erika Goldman is publisher and edi-torial director of Bellevue Literary Press (BLP), a nonprofit mission-driven publisher that has been publishing literary fiction and nonfiction at the intersection of the arts and the sci-ences since 2007. BLP’s books have received major literary prizes: The Sojourn by Andrew Krivak was a 2011 National Book Award finalist and 2012 winner of the first annual Chautauqua Prize and Dayton Literary Peace Prize, The Jump Artist by Austin Ratner won the 2011 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, and the New York Times bestseller Tinkers, by Paul Harding, received the 2010 Pulitzer Prize.

Joy Harris established her own liter-ary agency in 1990. She works pri-marily with literary fiction, strongly-written commercial fiction, narrative nonfiction across a broad range of topics, memoir and biography, and is drawn to a clear, original voice, an engaging point of view, and strong characters. She takes great pleasure

in finding new literary voices, and over the course of her career has had the joy of representing many bestsell-ing and acclaimed authors from the time of their first published work.

Joy Johannessen has been an editor at Chelsea House, Grove Press, and Oxford University Press, a senior edi-tor at HarperCollins Publishers, and the executive editor of Delphinium Books. She has worked with hun-dreds of writers, among them Rabih Alameddine, Dorothy Allison, Amy Bloom, Harold Bloom, Michael Cunningham, Larry Kramer, Ursula Le Guin, Arthur Miller, Ralph Nader, and Héctor Tobar. She is the co-editor, with Roxanne Coady, of The Book That Changed My Life: 71 Remarkable Writers Celebrate the Books That Matter Most to Them. She currently freelances.

calvert d. Morgan Jr. was Senior Vice President and Executive Editor at Harper and Eitorial Director at Harper Perennial, two imprints of HarperCollins Publishers. His authors included Jess Walter, Roxane Gay, Tom Piazza, Porochista Khakpour, Amber Tamblyn, Elizabeth Tallent, Christopher Bollen, Kate Zambreno, Blake Butler, Stanley Crouch, and Molly Crabapple. A graduate of Yale University, he worked for eleven years at St. Martin’s Press before joining HarperCollins.

BJ robbins established her Los Angeles-based agency in 1992 after a multi-faceted career in book publish-ing in NY, first in publicity at Simon & Schuster and later as Marketing Director and then Senior Editor at Harcourt. Her clients include many New York Times bestselling and award-winning writers in both fiction and nonfiction, such as J. Maarten Troost, James Donovan, Deanne

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Stillman, Max Byrd, Mary Volmer, Stephen Graham Jones, Nafisa Haji, and John Hough, Jr.

Jack Shoemaker was born in California and has been a bookseller and publisher for more than fifty years. He was the founder and editor of North Point Press in Berkeley. After it closed he worked for a few years as the West Coast Editor of the Knopf Publishing Group, before leav-ing to co-found Counterpoint Press twenty years ago. He continues his work there serving as the Editorial Director.

Andrew tonkovich edits the West Coast literary journal Santa Monica Review and hosts Bibliocracy, a weekly liter-ary arts show on Pacifica Radio KPFK 90.7 FM in Southern California. He writes about books, politics and people for the OC Weekly online at OC Bookly. Recent fiction, essays and reviews appear in Free Inquiry, Faultline, Juked, Ecotone, Los Angeles Review of Books and Best American Nonrequired Reading. He is co-editing with Lisa Alvarez the first-ever literary anthology of Orange County, The Barricades of Heaven: A Literary Field Guide to Orange County, California for Heyday. He teaches at UC Irvine and works on behalf of the labor union representing Librarians and Lecturers.

oscar villalon is the managing editor at ZYZZYVA. His work has appeared in Zocalo Public Square, VQR, The Believer, Black Clock, and other publications, and he is a contributing editor at LitHub.com.

Jane ciabattari is the author of two critically acclaimed short story collections: California Tales and Stealing the Fire. She was Life of Letters Lecturer at Bennington’s Graduate Writing Seminars, and has taught fiction at Chautauqua’s Writers’ Center, at Knox College (as Distinguished Writer in Residence.) She contributes regularly to BBC.com, NPR.org, The Literary Hub and other publications, and serves as vice president (and a former president) of the National Book Critics Circle. She is a member of the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto.

rhoda Huffey is the author of The Hallelujah Side, a novel, and has published stories in Ploughshares, Green Mountains Review, Santa Monica Review, and Rattling Wall. She has an MFA from the University of California at Irvine and is a past participant at the Community of Writers.

Anne Lamott, is the author of seven novels, including Hard Laughter, Rosie, Joe Jones, Blue Shoe, All New People, Crooked Little Heart, and Imperfect Birds. She has also written eight bestselling books of nonfiction, includ-ing Operating Instructions; Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son’s First Son; and a writing guide; Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life. Her collec-tions of autobiographical essays on faith are Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith; Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith; Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith; Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers and most recent-ly Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope and Repair. Her last book of essays, Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace, was published by Riverhead Books.

Michelle Latiolais is Professor of English at the University of California at Irvine. She is the author of the novel Even Now which received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the Commonwealth Club of California. Her second novel, A Proper Knowledge, and a collection of stories, involutions and essays, Widow, were both published by Bellevue Literary Press. She has published writing in three anthologies, Absolute Disaster, Women On The Edge: Writing From Los Angeles and Woof! Writers on Dogs. Her stories and essays have appeared in ZYZZYVA, The Antioch Review, Western Humanities Review, Santa Monica Review, Iowa Review and the Northwest Review. Recent work has appeared in ZYZZYVA, Santa Monica Review, Juked and The Kenyon Review. She will be released in May 2016 by Norton & Company.

Matt Sumell is a graduate of UC Irvine’s MFA Program in Writing, and his short fiction has since appeared in The Paris Review, Esquire, Electric Literature, McSweeney’s, One Story, Noon, and elsewhere. His first novel, Making Nice was published by Henry Holt & Company in 2015.

Amy tan’s novels are The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God’s Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, The Bonesetter’s Daughter, Saving Fish from Drowning, and The Valley of Amazement, all New York Times bestsellers. She was co-writer and co-producer of the film The Joy Luck Club, and was the librettist for an opera based on The Bonesetter’s Daughter. She has also published a book of essays, The Opposite of Fate; two children’s books, The Moon Lady and Sagwa; and numerous articles for magazines including The New Yorker, Harper’s Bazaar, and National Geographic. Tan’s work has been widely anthologized and translated into 35 languages. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the Community of Writers. She is currently working on a nonfiction book called The Mind of a Writer. o

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Each summer, recently published alumni are invited to return to Squaw Valley to read from their books and talk about their journey from unpublished writers to published authors. The Community of Writers is delighted to celebrate the success of

these writers and to present them to the participants, staff, and the public.

Published Alumni Reading Series

2016 Published Alumni ReadersStephanie Kegan is the author of the novel Golden State published by Simon & Schuster in February, 2015. Her previ-ous books include The Baby, a novel published by the Berkley Publishing Group and Places to Go with Children in Southern California (six editions) published by Chronicle Books. Her non-fiction has appeared in Self, Los Angeles Magazine, the Los Angeles Times and elsewhere. She lives in Los Angeles. She attended the Community of Writers in 2003 and 2005. www.stephaniekegan.com

Nayomi Munaweera’s debut novel, Island of a Thousand Mirrors won the Commonwealth Regional Prize for Asia and was short-listed for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and the Northern California Book Prize. She lives in Oakland, California and her second novel, What Lies Between Us, will be released in February 2016. She attended the Community of Writers in 2011 and 2012. www.nayomimunaweera.com

Marian Palaia is the author of The Given World published by Simon and Schuster in 2015. Born in Riverside, California, she has lived in San Francisco (on and off) since 1985. Other places she has lived include Montana, Hong Kong, Ho Chi

Minh City, and Nepal, where she was a Peace Corps volun-teer. She has been a teacher, a truck driver and a bartender. At one time she was the littlest logger in Lincoln, Montana. www.marianpalaia.com

Juan Alvarado valdivia is a Peruvian American writer who was born in Guadalajara, Mexico. He is the author of ¡Cancerlandia!: A Memoir. He received his MFA in cre-ative writing from Saint Mary’s College of California. This upcoming winter, he will be a resident at the Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts. He lives in Oakland and attended the Community of Writers in 2013. www.juanalvaradovaldivia.com

Heather Young’s debut novel, The Lost Girls, will be pub-lished in summer 2016 by William Morrow/HarperCollins. She lives in Northern California with her husband and two children. After receiving her law degree from the University of Virginia, she practiced law in San Francisco for a number of years before beginning her writing career in 2009. She received an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars in 2011, and continued her education at the Community of Writers in 2013. www.heatheryoungwriter.com

Recent Alumni Readers:

Alan Grostephan, Eddy Ancinas, Amy Franklin-Willis, Mark Maynard,

Alison Singh Gee, with Alex Espinoza introducing

Kevin Allardice, Monica Wesolowska, Peggy Hesketh, Eileen Cronin

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Andrew Roe, Désirée Zamorano, Paulette Livers, Peyton Marshall

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Alumni who have been part of this reading series include Kevin Allardice, Anita Amirrezvani, Eddy Ancinas, Ramona Ausubel, David Bajo, Aimee Bender, David Corbett, Charmaine Craig, Eileen Cronin, Frances Dinkelspiel, Heather Donahue, Cai Emmons, Alex Espinoza, Joshua Ferris, Jamie Ford, Vicki Forman, Amy Franklin-Willis, Alison Singh Gee, Tanya Egan Gibson, Glen David Gold, Alan Grostephan, Judith Hendricks, Susan Henderson, Sara J. Henry, Peggy Hesketh, Rhoda Huffey, Michael Jaime-Becerra, Alma Katsu, Regina Louise, Krys Lee, Paulette Livers, Michael David Lukas, Peyton Marshall, Marisa Matarazzo, Mark Maynard, Christina Meldrum, Janis Cooke Newman, Jessica O’Dwyer, Aline Ohanesian, Victoria Patterson, Frederick Reiken, Andrew Roe, Robin Romm, Ismet Prcic, Elizabeth Rosner, Adrienne Sharp, Alice Sebold, Julia Flynn Siler, Jordan Fisher Smith, Scott Sparling, Ellen Sussman, Lisa Tucker, Brenda Rickman Vantrease, Mary Volmer, Dora Calott Wang, M.D., Monica Wesolowska, Andrew Winer, Alia Yunis and Désirée Zamorano among others.

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WRITERS WORKSHOPS oPast Writers Workshop participants: Fiction Participants: If you attended the last two years do not apply this year. (i.e., attendance is allowed 2 out of every 3 years.) Nonfiction Participants: If you attended last year please do not apply this year. i.e., attendance is allowed after you have taken a year off. o Deadline for receipt of application/submission: April 12, 2016o Applicants, including past participants, should submit a sample of their best, unpublished prose. oWriting sample submission ms. may consist of a story (or stories), essay(s) or chapter(s). Book chapters should be accompanied by a one-page synopsis of the whole book’s plot. (Add to the end of ms.) Submission ms. (excluding synopsis) must be less than 5,000 words. oSubmission ms. must be typed, double-spaced and 12 pt., with your name in the upper right-hand corner of each page.oAttach a digital file (PDF or Word.doc) of your submission ms. to the online application form. (Manuscripts will not be returned; digital files will be deleted.)o To complete the online Application Form, submit Financial Aid application, and to upload a PDF of your manuscript, follow this link: https://communityofwriters.org/apply/

o If any difficulty is encountered uploading your digital manuscript, contact us for assistance. oRequests to participate in the “Art of Revision” workshop can be made on the online application form. (See page 8)oRequests to participate in Special Film Adapation Class can be made on the online application form. (See page 8)o If applying in more than one category, (Fiction, Nonfiction, Memoir) please submit separate online applications.oA $40 reading fee will be due with each submission, payable by check (see address below) or via credit card, online. o Once you complete the online form, you will receive an email confirmation. o To pay reading fee by check: (Payable to Community of Writers) print application confirmation email, and enclose with check. Mail to: Community of Writers - WW PO Box 1416 Nevada City, CA 95959oNotification of acceptance by May 20.

POETRY WORKSHOPo Past Poetry participants: If you wish to attend this year, contact us for information about the returning poet procedure.o Deadline for receipt of application/submission: April 5, 2016o Submission should consist of four or five pages of recent poems, typed, 12 pt. Submit PDF or Word.doc.o Put your name in the upper right-hand corner of each page.oAttach a digital file (PDF or Word.doc) of your submission ms. to the online application form. (Manuscripts will not be returned; they will be recycled. Digital files will be deleted.)o To complete the online Application Form, submit Financial Aid application, and to upload a PDF of your manuscript, follow this link: https://communityofwriters.org/apply/

o If any difficulty is encountered uploading your digital manuscript contact us for assistance. o Once you have completed the online form, you will receive an email confirmation. o A $35 reading fee will be due with application & submission, payable by check or credit card, online. o To pay reading fee by check:(Payable to Community of Writers) print application confirmation email, and enclose with check. Mail to: Community of Writers - Poetry PO Box 1416 Nevada City, CA 95959o Notification of acceptance by May 1.

Application GuidelinesTo apply, complete our online form by following the appropriate link below. The application manu-script (digital file) can be attached to the online application, or emailed by the deadline. Those without internet may submit through the US Mail. Questions? Visit www.communityofwriters.org for more information. You may also email us at info@communityofwriters.org or call (530) 470-8440.