Clarion West

Workshops for People Who Are Serious About Writing

Clarion West offers workshops for writers preparing for professional careers in science fiction and fantasy.

2012 Clarion West Writers Workshop

The Clarion West Writers Workshop is an intensive six-week workshop for writers preparing for professional careers in science fiction and fantasy, held annually in Seattle, Washington, USA.

We are very happy to announce that our instructors for the 2012 Clarion West Writers Workshop are Mary Rosenblum, Hiromi Goto, George R.R. Martin, Connie Willis, Kelly Link and Gavin Grant, and Chuck Palahniuk, the 2012 Susan C. Petrey Fellow.

Photo of Mary Rosenblum Photo of Hiromi Goto Photo of George R.R. Martin Photo of Connie Willis Photo of Kelly Link and Gavin Grant Photo of Chuck Palahniuk­­
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Kelly Link and
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The 2012 Writers Workshop will run June 17 through July 27. Applications are being accepted until midnight on March 1, 2012.

General background on the Clarion West Writers Workshop can be found here, and instructions for applying are here.

New Winter One-Day Workshops

Our new One-Day Workshops for February and March are open for registration. Richard Paul Russo and Kat Richardson will teach their six-hour classes on a first-come, first-served basis.

Find out more and register here.

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CW News

  • Feb 1 2012

    February 24 -26 you can attend Potlatch 21 at the Best Western Executive Inn in Seattle. Your membership in this small, literary convention will help support Clarion West, and you can also participate in our annual scholarship fund auction Saturday evening, February 25. Since its start in 1992, Potlatch has raised over $50,000 for us. Coming to Potlatch is a wonderful way to meet informally with Clarion West alumni, instructors, volunteers, and other CW community members. To learn more, visit the Potlatch site.

  • Jan 23 2012

    Our early deadline for 2012 Clarion West Writers Workshop applications is midnight of February 10. When we receive your application by midnight of February 10, you pay a discounted application fee of $30.

    Our final deadline for 2012 Clarion West Writers Workshop applications is midnight of March 1, 2012. The full application fee is $40.

    Learn more about the workshop here, and find full application instructions here.

  • Oct 2 2011

    You can find quick updates on Clarion West on Twitter by following our hashtag. That's #clarionwest; enter it in the search field when you're signed in to Twitter and you'll see what we mean.

  • Oct 2 2011

    The Clarion West Facebook Group helps CW community members with Facebook accounts stay on top of news and events. Contest announcements, workshop reports, and other posts about the Clarion West community appear on the Clarion West Group page. (You'll need to be logged in to access the page.) We'd love for you to join.

  • Aug 2 2011

    The writing portion of the 2011 Clarion West Write-a-thon ended Friday, July 29. You can still make donations in support of our participants' efforts.

    This year's Write-a-thon has been wildly successful and lots of fun. We set goals for the event that have been met and greatly surpassed: 142 writers--we were hoping for 100; 377 sponsors--over 100 sponsors over our goal of 270. Donations have arrived from 15 different countries. Participants talk about their achievements on their LiveJournal and FaceBook sites: stories written, chapters revised, poems submitted, experiments tried...this has been a very productive time. We're proud to have been part of all the stretching and learning the 2011 Write-a-thon led to, and very, very grateful to our wonderful writers, sponsors, volunteers, and staff who've made it possible. Thank you--and if you've been meaning to chip in, now's the time, and here's the link.

  • Aug 2 2011

    Our free summer reading series ended with Charles Stross's July 26 appearance, attended by a standing-room-only audience of 160 people. Over the six weeks of the series more than 300 people heard readings by Clarion West instructors; these acclaimed authors also answered questions and signed copies of their books provided by our host, University Book Store. Read more about our wonderful 2011 reading series here; we'll post information in April about our upcoming 2012 reading series (featuring Mary Rosenblum, Hiromi Goto, George R.R. Martin, Connie Willis, Kelly Link, Gavin Grant, and Chuck Palahniuk).