Summer

Students Kelli Lage (2028): Assistant Poetry Editor, Bracken Magazine; High School Editor and Student Liaison, Iowa Poetry Association. Mark Strohschein (2028): Board Member, Skagit Valley Poetry Foundation. Alumni Jessica Barksdale (2015): Organizer, Literature Week, Diablo Valley College. Nancy Canyon (2007): Guest Author, Village Books Writer’s Salon; Panelist, Chuckanut Writers Conference; Organizer and Editor, CanyonWriter Press;…

Alumni Liz Shine (2011) announces the fledgling literary magazine Generation Gap is seeking submissions for its first print edition, which will be published in the winter of 2027. Submissions are open from May 1 to September 30, 2026.

Alumni Jenny Apostol’s (2020) essay “The Desire We Were Becoming,” which appeared in The Kenyon Review, Winter 2024, was named a notable essay in The Best American Essays 2025. Bill Capossere’s (2010) micro play “A Beautiful Day to Garden” was performed May 21, 2026. His full-length play A Fall of Warm Snow was given a…

Students Eric Oman Callahan (2026) Fiction: “Butterflies,” Fourteen Hills, Issue 32, May 2026. Kerry J Heckman (2026) Poetry: “the dark season is a long song I want to sing in the rain,” Seattle Civic, Vol. 1. Marnie Ritchie (2026) Poetry: “True rhyme for Emily Dickinson’s time,” The Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin, November/December 2025. John…

At this year’s RWW residency, we’re hosting the fiction writer Cole Bucciaglia (pronounced “Buchaya,” like “papaya”). Cole is the author of We Were Restless Things and the forthcoming Everybody Dies; her stories have been featured in journals such as Tin House, Cream City Review, and West Branch. I was excited to ask Cole a few…

Rebecca McClanahan and Brenda Miller did not set out to write companion books. But their newest works—Miller’s Love You, Bye and McClanahan’s Light Falls on Everything—arrive in quiet conversation with each other, both exploring the tender territory of caregiving, daughterhood, grief, and the complex light that remains after loss. In May, the two award-winning authors…

A day does not pass that I don’t ask this question: How is my engagement as a poet in the world, as a teacher of poetry and literature, as a reader and writer, participating in the work I deeply believe we as humans need to be doing right now? This work, for me, involves two…

Dearest RWW Community— Weeks from now, my cohort will walk across the stage in the Scandinavian Cultural Center and receive our diplomas. Needless to say, this is a bittersweet time. There is a deep sense of readiness and accomplishment tangled up with the complexity of endings. For me those feelings are named grief and gratitude.…