Benefit for Squaw Valley Community of Writers
By Whitney Mountain, Sacramento Bee
Tucked away near Lake Tahoe, a small town with a big history holds one of this country’s worst-kept literary secrets: the Squaw Valley Community of Writers.
Since 1969, the Community of Writers has been considered among the country’s most renowned literary conferences, along with the Sewanee and the Bread Loaf writers conferences. The literary troupe holds three genres of workshops every year: one for screenwriters; one for fiction, nonfiction and memoirs; and most important to Sacramento, one for poetry.
On Friday, the Crocker Art Museum will serve as the location of the annual Community of Writers Poetry Reading Benefit.
For more than 20 years, the benefit was held in San Francisco, but this year the organization opted for a change.