From the Workshop Room to the L.A. Times: A Personal Essay Debut
“He wanted Los Angeles. I wanted New York.” — the premise of Matt Gerlach’s new essay in the Los Angeles...
Blog — Alumni News
Creative Writing Workshop Success Stories: Our Alumni's Recent Wins
Rachel Spies Finds Her Book's Shape in a Grief Writing Workshop
Whitney Vale's Sermon of Swallows Takes Flight
Jerry Portwood and the Short Story Twenty Years in the Making
Michelle Boyer: From Workshop Prompt to Anthology Publication
Celebrating The Best American Essays 2026
Every fall, one anthology quietly redraws the map of American nonfiction, and this October, it arrives with an especially luminous...
Dan Robert's Debut Novel The Monster's Wife Sells to Dutton in a Pre-empt
Alum Named a 2026 Poets & Writers Get the Word Out Poetry Fellow
From the French Riviera to 1960s Casablanca: Laila Ouarrachy's Debut Novel Arrives
Alumni Spotlight: LaDonna Witmer Sets the Page on Fire in How I Learned
