2021 Writing from Inlandia

The Writing from Inlandia anthology series is published annually and represents a selection of work by anyone who has participated in an Inlandia Institute creative writing workshop during that calendar year. Inlandia's creative writing workshops program began with one workshop at the Riverside Public Library in 2009 and has expanded to workshops both in person and virtual, with participants from distant continents as well as from the Inlandia region. 



In addition to our usual slate of multi-genre workshops this year also included specialty workshops like Food Writing: Second Helpings, Adventures in Chronologyland, Butterflies Can Hollar, Poet-try, and more. 



The 2021 anthology features work by these sixty-one contributors representing a cross-section of participants this year: 



Janet Lako Alexander

Don Bennett

Mary Briggs

Georgette Geppert Buckley

Alben J. Chamberlain

Natalie Champion

Rick Champion

José Chávez 

Deenaz Coachbuilder

Sylvia Clarke

Wil Clarke

James Coats

Elinor Cohen

Carlos Cruz

Brian DeCoud

Chuck Doolittle

Jerry Ellingson

Ellen Estilai

Bryan Franco

Nan Friedley

Camille Gaon

Richard Gonzalez

Mark Grinyer

Milan Hamilton

Nikki Harlin

Doralba "Dora" Harmon

Edna Heled

Richard Hess

Connie Jameson

Marlene Jones

Jessica Lea 

Merrill Lyew

KaShawna Mackay

Mae Wagner Marinello

Jacqueline Mantz 

Ruthie Marlenée

Terry Lee Marzell

Mary McLoughlin

Carmen Melendez-Gutierrez

Barbara Meyer

Marvin Meyer

Rose Y. Monge

Barbara Mortensen

Cindi Neisinger

S. J. Perry

Christine Petzar

Janine Pourroy

Cindi Pringle

Edgar Rider

Robin Woodruff-Longfield

Marilyn Sequoia

Kristine Ann Shell

Ben Simmons

Lynne Stewart

Scharlett Stowers Vai

Heather Takenaga

Elizabeth Uter

Gudelia Vaden

Frances J. Vasquez

Irma Gabriella Vazquez-Garfield

Jose Luis Vizcarra



Gratitude to all of our workshops instructors: 



Alaina Bixon

Wil Clarke

Carlos Cortés

James Ducat

Andrea Fingerson

Renee Gurley

Stephanie Barbé Hammer

Tim Hatch

Allyson Jeffredo

Mae Wagner Marinello

Richard Allen May III

Rose Y. Monge

Jo Scott-Coe

Lydia Theon Ware i

Frances J. Vasquez

Victoria Waddle

Romaine Washington



This year's anthology pays tribute to Roberto Murillo, tesoro de Casa Blanca.