The 2017 Cave Canem Poetry Scholarships to attend the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley

The Community of Writers at Squaw Valley is delighted to announce three scholarships for Cave Canem Fellows who need financial aid to attend the Community of ritersW Poetry Workshop this summer.

Dates: June 24 - July 1, 2017

Deadline to apply: March 28, 2017

SUMMER Each scholarship will include: P.O. Box 2352 $1,100 Tuition to Poetry Program Olympic Valley CA 96146 $ 465 Twin Room Accommodations (530) 583-5200 $1,565 Total Scholarship FALL/WINTER/SPRING P.O. Box 1416 Applicants will need to apply to the workshop by March 28 and pay the $35 applica- Nevada City, CA 95959 tion fee. Fellows offered scholarships will need to submit a $100 deposit (which will be (530) 470-8440 refunded on arrival.) [email protected] For more information about the Poetry Workshop at Squaw Valley visit: BOARD OF DIRECTORS https://communityofwriters.org/workshops/poetry-workshop/ PRESIDENT or contact Brett Hall Jones, Executive Director: James Naify 530-470-8440 or [email protected]. SECRETARY Jan Buscho

FINANCIAL OFFICER Burnett Miller

April Ancinas Eddy Ancinas René Ancinas Community Ruth Blank Jan Buscho Alex Espinoza Nancy Evans Michelle Latiolais of Writers P o e t r y W o r K s H o P Edwina Leggett Lester Lennon Carlin Naify Jason Roberts Christopher Sindt Julia Flynn Siler June 24-July i, 20i7 Amy Tan Nancy Teichert Cora Yang 8 8 Al Young Francisco Aragón squaw Valley, CA Brenda Hillman 8 Sharon Olds 8 THE WORKSHOPS Financial Aid EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Brett Hall Jones is available

DEVELOPMENT & ALUMNI RELATIONS Submission Deadline: Amy Rutten March 28. WRITERS WORKSHOPS Lisa Alvarez The Poetry Program is founded on the belief that when Michael Carlisle These events are supported by poets gather in a community to write new poems, each Louis B. Jones Poets & Writers, Inc., with a grant it has received from poet may well break through old habits and write some- POETRY The James Irvine Foundation Robert Hass thing stronger and truer than before. The idea is to try to expand the boundaries of what one can write. In the morn- ings we meet to read to each other the work of the previous [email protected] (530) 470-8440 twenty-four hours, and in the late afternoons we gather for Squaw Valley a conversation about some aspect of craft. Community of Writers A Non-Profit Corporation www.communityofwriters.org This workshop takes place in Squaw Valley in the Summer Sierra Nevada. Writing Workshops Since 1969 www.communityofwriters.org