A Workshop for People Who Are Serious About Writing
Clarion West is an intensive six-week workshop for writers preparing for professional careers in science fiction and fantasy, held annually in Seattle, Washington, USA.
2011 Instructors
We're pleased to announce that our instructors for the 2011 Clarion West Writers Workshop will be Paul Park, Nancy Kress, Margo Lanagan, Minister Faust, L. Timmel Duchamp, and Charles Stross, the 2011 Susan C. Petrey Fellow.
General background on the Clarion West Writers Workshop can be found here. Check back with us in October for more information on next year's instructors and on applying to attend the 2011 session.
2010 Write-a-thon
The "Write, write, write!" part of our seventh Write-a-thon ended July 30 with the 2010 workshop sesstion, but you can still make a donation in support of your favorite participants. Look back on the glories of this year's Write-a-thon at our Forums.
2010 Summer Reading Series a success
The 2010 Clarion West Summer Reading Series is over. Thanks so much for attending and helping us enjoy appearances by many of contemporary SF's best authors and editors: Michael Bishop, Maureen McHugh, Nnedi Okorafor, Graham Joyce, Ellen Datlow, and Ian McDonald. To read more about how it went, visit the Summer Reading Series page.
We'll post details of the 2011 summer reading series here early next year.
2010 Readers
CW News
Aug 1 2010 With your help, we've once again raised the money needed to meet the Amazon.com challenge grant three months early. Amazon.com told us they would give Clarion West $25,000 if we could raise $25,000 by October 31, 2010, and as of July 31 we've raised over $30,000. The 2010 Write-a-thon was essential, bringing in over $9000, almost half of what we needed. Our community's generous donations of time and money are making it possible for us to run one of the world's premiere writing workshops. Thank you to all our friends and supporters, old and new: Potlatch, Norwescon, the Carl Brandon Society, the Susan C. Petrey Fellowship, King County 4Culture, Amazon.com, and the growing list of those who keep Clarion West a going concern even in tough times. Read more »
Jul 30 2010 Our seventh Clarion West Write-a-thon ended on July 30, 2010, along with this year’s Clarion West Writers Workshop. Several participants posted about their agony and ecstasy at the Clarion West Forums and on their blogs. Michael Swanwick's generous offer to immortalize donors in his 42 Write-a-thon stories was snapped up within hours of him making it--see the results here and on our Forums. Many thanks and congratulations go out to all our Write-a-thon participants and their friends, and to everyone in the Clarion West community. Read more »
Jul 25 2010 Pat Murphy, Karen Joy Fowler, and three other stellar Clarion West supporters gave a reading at San Francisco's Borderlands Bookstore on July 10. The reading raised over seventy dollars and unquantifiable awareness for our 2010 Write-a-thon and also featured Tim Pratt, Rachel Swirsky, and Katherine Sparrow. The appreciative audience included Ellen Klages, Jed Hartman, Nick Mamatas, Maggie Croft, Christopher Reynaga, and many more CW, Clarion, and Clarion South alumni and friends.
Thanks to Borderlands for hosting this reading, and to Erin Cashier for organizing it. If you’d like to organize a Clarion West-themed reading in your area, you can contact Erin Cashier at writeathon@clarionwest.org. We’re working out the details right now and looking forward to coordinating similar events soon.
Jun 21 2010 In the first three days of our 2010 Write-a-thon, we've had 42 donors take up multiple-award-winner Michael Swanwick on his offer to include their names in all 42 of the stories he's writing. Swanwick is sold out! Thank you all so much, and a special thank you to Cory Doctorow and Boing Boing for spreading the word so fast.
There are still several weeks of Write-a-thon to go. If you'd like to donate in support of another participating author (some will also include your name, or that of a cherished friend or enemy, in a new story), go here. You'll find links to Write-a-thon pages for Eileen Gunn, Kij Johnson, Andrea Hairston, Vonda N. McIntyre, and many more.
Mar 5 2010 At our Annual Meeting March 5, three new members joined our Board of Directors and two longtime board members retired. Kelley Eskridge is our new board chair, and Kij Johnson ('87) is now our vice chair. Karen G. Anderson will take on some development duties such as grant writing, as well as her general board responsibilities. Both Kelley and Kij are award-winning authors with close ties to the Clarion West community, while Karen has a background in digital journalism and is active in the Seattle-area fan community, especially with the Foolscap convention.
Our outgoing chair, Deborah Fisher, remains on the board. Eileen Gunn, our outgoing vice chair, has retired from the board but remains active as a volunteer, as does outgoing Development Director Kate Schaefer. Read more »
Feb 19 2010 If you're a Clarion West member, you've been receiving our biannual newsletter through the mail since you joined. Now the Seventh Week will be available as a PDF--starting with our Fall 2010 issue. Although the old printed-on-paper edition will still be delivered to those who prefer it, we’re hoping most members will choose the new electronic option because: Read more »
- We can offer better content, including color photos and more in-depth articles and interviews.
- Fewer trees will die.
- We’ll save a ton on printing and mailing costs.
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