The Community of Writers is a writers' conference held each summer in
Olympic Valley, California
Olympic Valley (historically or informally known as Squaw Valley) is an unincorporated area, unincorporated community located in Placer County, California northwest of Tahoe City, California, Tahoe City along California State Route 89, California ...
. Founded in 1969, it is the oldest annual writers' conference on the
West Coast of the United States
The West Coast of the United States, also known as the Pacific Coast, Pacific states, and the western seaboard, is the coastline along which the Western United States meets the North Pacific Ocean. The term typically refers to the contiguous U.S ...
. The Community of Writers is a nonprofit
501(c)(3) organization
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and has a governing Board of Directors.
History
The Community of Writers was founded by novelist
Oakley Hall
Oakley Maxwell Hall (July 1, 1920 – May 12, 2008) was an American novelist. He was born in San Diego, California, graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, and served in the Marines during World War II. Some of his mysteries were ...
and writer
Blair Fuller
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in 1969. Its first conference was held in August 1970 in the lodges of the ski area; to this day, panels, talks, staff readings and workshops take place in off-season ski lodge facilities. It was originally staffed by San Francisco writers including David Perlman, Walter Ballenger,
Barnaby Conrad
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Born in San Francisco, California to an affluent family, Conrad was raised in Hillsborough. He spent a year ...
and
John Leggett
John Ward Leggett (November 11, 1917 – January 25, 2015) was an American writer who served as the third director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop from 1970 to 1987.
Biography
Leggett was born in Manhattan to Bleecker Noel Leggett, a real estate ma ...
, the latter two of whom went on to found, respectively, the Santa Barbara Writers Conference and the Napa Valley Writers Conference.
In December 2003, the organization changed its name to the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley, in response to some Native Americans’ and others’ belief that in some contexts the term “
squaw
The English word ''squaw'' is an ethnic and sexual slur, historically used for Indigenous North American women. Contemporary use of the term, especially by non-Natives, is considered derogatory, misogynist, and racist.King, C. Richard,De/Sc ...
” is derogatory. The Board decided it was best to change to name so that the word Squaw Valley referred to the place name only, to distance itself from any historical controversy or discomfort with the word. By 2021, the organization had shortened its name to Community of Writers and switched to calling the valley Olympic Valley.
Workshop
Workshops are held in fiction, (directors Lisa D. Alvarez and Louis B. Jones), nonfiction (director Michael Carlisle), poetry (director
Robert Hass
Robert L. Hass (born March 1, 1941) is an American poet. He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997. He won the 2007 National Book Award and shared the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for the collection ''Time and Materials: Poems 1997 ...
), and screenwriting (director Diana Fuller). From 1980 until 2000, novelist Carolyn Doty directed the writers workshops William Fox directed the poetry program during the years when it was integrated with prose. Later, poet
Galway Kinnell
Galway Mills Kinnell (February 1, 1927 – October 28, 2014) was an American poet. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 1982 collection, ''Selected Poems'' and split the National Book Award for Poetry with Charles Wright. From 1989 to 1 ...
reinvented and directed the Poetry Program for 17 years until 2004. The Screenwriters Workshop was founded by screenwriters Tom Rickman and
Gill Dennis
Gill Dennis (January 25, 1941 – May 13, 2015) was an American director and screenwriter. He was the son of psychologist Wayne Dennis, author of "The Hopi Child."
Early life
Dennis graduated from AFI Conservatory’s first class (in 1969), ...
. The Community of Writers continues to be directed by Brett Hall Jones.
Admission
The Community has a formal and competitive admissions procedure. Applicants are asked to submit an application fee and a writing sample. Average acceptance rate is 33%. Roughly 50% of those who attend are granted some form of financial aid. Scholarships and financial aid is provided through the donations for alumni, staff and friends. The conference generally offers 8 fiction workshops of 12 participants each and two narrative nonfiction/memoir workshops of 12 each.
Authors
Noted authors who have been associated with the conference over the years include
Bill Barich
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He grew up on Long Island and graduated from Colgate University in 1965. Subsequently, he served in the U.S. Peace Corps in eastern Nigeria (Biafra), ...
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Henry Carlisle
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Carlisle, with his wife Olga Andreyeva Carlisle, was notable for translating Alexander Solzhenitsyn's work into English. Altho ...
, Olga Carlisle,
Don Carpenter
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Alan Cheuse
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Lucille Clifton
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Li ...
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Herbert Gold
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Early life
Gold was born on March 9, 1924 in Cleveland, Ohio, in to a Russian Jewish family. His parents were Samuel S. and Frieda (Frankel) Gold. His father ran a fruit store and later a ...
, Jay Gummerman,
Gerald Haslam
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James D. Houston
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Early life
Houston was born in San Francisco, where h ...
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Diane Johnson
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Yusef Komunyakaa
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Li-Young Lee
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Peter Matthiessen
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, David Perlman,
Mary Lee Settle
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Gary Snyder
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Max Steele
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Mark Strand
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Kazim Ali
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''All One's Blue'' (Harper Collins India, 2016). His honors include an Individua ...
Camille Dungy
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Career
Born in Denver, Colorado, Dungy graduated from Stanford University (BA) and the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, where she earned her MFA.
She is the author of four ...
Forrest Gander
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Robert Hass
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Brenda Hillman
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Cathy Park Hong
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, Juan Felipe Herrera,
Major Jackson
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Ada Limón
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* Ada (Ghana parliament constituency)
* Ada, Osun, a town in Nigeria
Asia
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Harryette Mullen
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Life
Mullen was born in Florence, Alabama, grew up in Fort Worth, Texas, gradua ...
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Sharon Olds
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CD Wright
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Matthew Zapruder
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Recent Fiction and Nonfiction writers:
Steve Almond
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Almond was raised in Palo Alto, California, graduated from Henry M. Gunn High School and receive ...
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Tom Barbash
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Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
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Ron Carlson
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Life
Carlson was born in Logan, Utah, and grew up in Salt Lake City. He received a master's degree in English from the University of Utah. He then taught at The ...
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Mark Childress
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Life
Childress grew up in Ohio, Indiana, Mississippi, and Louisiana. He graduated from the University of Alabama, where he was a member of the Mall ...
Janet Fitch
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Lynn Freed
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Life
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Richard Ford
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Karen Joy Fowler
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Glen David Gold
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Sands Hall
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Biography
The daughter of novelist Oakley Hall, she was born in La Jolla, California, and graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Drama from ...
Anne Lamott
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Michelle Latiolais
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Yiyun Li
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Varley O'Connor
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Having earned a BFA in acting from Boston University, O’Connor worked for several years as an actress. She ...
Alice Sebold
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Amy Tan
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Hector Tobar
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Josh Weil
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Tiphanie Yanique
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Al Young
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For over 30 years,
Gill Dennis
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Early life
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taught the special Finding the Story Workshop at the Community of Writers until his death in 2015.
Teaching Screenwriters include:
Eugene Corr,
Trey Ellis
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Christopher Monger
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Frank Pierson
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Don Roos
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Life and career
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, Camille Thomasson, Christopher Upham, Michael Urban, Jason Wolos
Alan Cheuse
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Richard Ford
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, was published.
The Community of Writers once sponsored the "Art of the Wild Writers' Conference" along with
U.C. Davis
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, but that program has been discontinued.
Published Alumni Reading Series
Each summer, recently published alumni return to the conference with their recently published books. Alumni who have been part of this reading series include
Anita Amirrezvani
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Arts
* ''Anita'' (1967 film), an Indian film
* ''Anita'' (2009 film), an Argentine film
* ''Anita'' (2021 film), a Hong Kong film
*'' Anita: Swedish Nymphet'', a 1973 erotic film
People
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Heather Donahue
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, Cai Emmons, Amy Franklin-Willis,
Joshua Ferris
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Jamie Ford
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, Vicki Forman, Alison Singh Gee, Tanya Egan Gibson, Alan Grostephan, Judith Hendricks, Susan Henderson, Sara J. Henry, Rhoda Huffey, Alma Katsu, Krys Lee, Edan Lepucki, Paulette Livers,
Janis Cooke Newman
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, Jessica O’Dwyer, Aline Ohanesian, Victoria Patterson, Andrew Roe, Adrienne Sharp, Jordan Fisher Smith, Scott Sparling, Ellen Sussman, Lisa Tucker, Brenda Rickman Vantrease, Mary Volmer, Dora Calott Wang, M.D., Andrew Winer, Alia Yunis, Désirée Zamorano among others including those who have returned as teaching staff.
Alumni
Writers and poets who have attended the Community of Writers as participants (students) include:
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Aimee Bender
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Biography
Born to a Jewish family, Bender received her undergraduate de ...
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David Benioff
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Elise Blackwell
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Michael Chabon
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born May 24, 1963) is an American novelist, screenwriter, columnist, and short story writer. Born in Washington, DC, he spent a year studying at Carnegie Mellon University before transferring to the University of Pittsburgh, gr ...
Jennifer Egan
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Thomas Sayers Ellis
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Molly Fisk
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Lev Grossman
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Maile Meloy
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Early life and education
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Nami Mun
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Life
Nami Mun was born in Seoul, South Korea, though she grew up in The Bronx.
She graduated from University of California, Berkeley, and from the University of Michigan, with an MF ...
Kris Saknussemm
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Anne Rice
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, Elizabeth Rosner and many others, including those who have returned as teaching staff.
See also
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List of writers' conferences
This is a list of worldwide authors' conferences for writers of all genres.
Europe
Bulgaria
* Sozopol Fiction Seminars – Sozopol
France
* Paris Writers Retreat – Paris
Iceland
* Iceland Writers Retreat – Reykjavík
Rey ...