Clarion West is a nonprofit literary organization that runs an acclaimed six-week residential workshop every summer, online classes and workshops, one-day and weekend workshops, a reading series every summer, and other events throughout the year.
We support emerging and underrepresented voices by providing writers with world-class instruction to empower their creation of wild and amazing worlds. Through conversation and public engagement, we bring those voices to an ever-expanding community.
You can support Clarion West’s mission to forge new voices in speculative fiction in many different ways. Find out more!
The Clarion West Writers Workshop was founded on the belief that writers from diverse backgrounds need an opportunity to be heard — and to experiment
After another overwhelming response to our call for applications, we have selected a class of fifteen students for Clarion West’s 2023 Six-Week Virtual Workshop. The
Clarion West is searching for an artist to create artwork for our 2023 summer programming! Please share this call with the artists you know that
We’ll be making a few in-person appearances this spring — below you can see where we’ll be when and how you can join in the
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