Clarion West will receive $3200 from Norwescon 33 to fully fund a scholarship for one of our 2010 writing workshop students. We'll select the scholarship recipient from among the eighteen applicants chosen to attend this summer's session of the Clarion West Writers Workshop. You can learn more about the workshop and the application process here. Incoming Clarion West Board Chair Kelley Eskridge and alumna Caren Gussoff ('08) will officially accept the donation during Norwescon 33's Awards Banquet, to be held on April 1, 2010.  Read more »

­­Our sixth Clarion West Write-a-thon ended on July 31, 2009, along with this year's Clarion West Writers Workshop. Several participants posted about their agony and ecstasy in the Clarion West Forums and on their blogs. K. Tempest Bradford spotlighted writers of color participating in the Write-a-thon and raised money for the Octavia E. Butler Scholarship Fund as well as Clarion West.  Read more »

With your help, we've raised the money needed to meet the Amazon.com challenge grant three months early! Last October, Amazon.com told us they would give Clarion West $25,000 if we could raise $25,000 by October 31, 2009, and as of July 31 we've raised over $35,000.  Read more »

With standing-room-only audiences, publicity in the New Yorker, and lively participation from Samuel R. Delany, Pat Murphy, Tim Pratt, Jack Womack, and Cat Rambo ('05), two July readings highlighted the coast-to-coast presence of the Clarion West community. On Wednesday, July 15, in New York City, Ellen Datlow and KGB's Matthew Kressel hosted a CW benefit featuring Delany, Womack, Rambo, and alumni Rajan Khanna ('08) and Kris Dikeman ('05). See photos from the event here.  Read more »

We have more than 70 writers signed up for the 2009 Write-a-thon. Eileen Gunn, Michael Swanwick, Cat Rambo, Louise Marley, Rachel Swirsky, Nisi Shawl, and a host of others will be writing for donations from June 21 through July 31. Support Clarion West by sponsoring them as they reach their writing goals.