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The Community of Writers at Squaw Valley is the oldest annual writers' conference operating on the West Coast of the United States. Founded by novelist Oakley Hall and writer Blair Fuller in 1969, it is held each summer in Olympic Valley, California. The first conference was held in August 1970 in the lodges of the ski area; to this day, panels, talks, staff readings and workshops take place in off-season ski lodge facilities. It was originally staffed by San Francisco writers including David Perlman, Walter Ballenger, Barnaby Conrad and John Leggett, the latter two of whom went on to found, respectively, the Santa Barbara Writers Conference and the Napa Valley Writers Conference.

The Community of Writers is a nonprofit 501©3 organization and has a governing Board of Directors.