Presented by The Community of Writers
Join us for a free, day-long virtual festival featuring craft talks, panels, and discussion.
ABOUT THIS EVENT
This year’s online 51st annual Community of Writers Fiction Workshop presents a free, day-long online Festival on Saturday, July 17. Co-sponsored by the Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB), the Festival features craft talks, panels, readings, and “Approaching Character” a conversation between novelist Amy Tan and dramatist-actress Anna Deavere Smith.
Bestselling novelist Janet Fitch begins with her talk “Writing with the Senses.” She is followed by a panel on how literary nonprofits overcame the challenges of this difficult year and worked together. Also featured are a celebration of the late screenwriter Gill Dennis’ legendary “Finding the Story” workshop, a talk by novelist Michelle Latiolais, panels examining fiction, nonfiction and screenwriting techniques, and staff readings from their own work. And a first for the Community of Writers: We will feature naturalist Will Richardson on a virtual nature walk in Paige Meadows. The festival will conclude with a special reading by former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass, and music by the CE Trio, and well as Louis B. Jones, Sands Hall, Caridwen Irvine-Spatz and Greg Spatz.
ABOUT THE COMMUNITY OF WRITERS
For 50 summers, the Community of Writers 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 in the refinement of 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 Olympic Valley in the ski lodge at the foot of the ski slopes. Panels, talks, staff readings and workshops take place in these venues with a spectacular view up the mountain.