Updates for the 2024 Six-Week Workshop
November 14, 2023
Housing We are excited to announce that Clarion West’s Six-Week Workshop will return to its traditional home in Seattle’s University District next summer! We are
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Our Mission
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!
Latest News
Calling for Application Fee Donations
October 25, 2023
This year we are creating a pool for application fees for the Six-Week Workshop, and if you are someone who usually donates application fees, we’re
Greg Bear Memorial Instructorship
October 2, 2023
Donors Astrid Bear and Jeffrey Lemkin have committed $2,500 to create the Greg Bear Memorial Instructorship and with the aid of the amazing Clarion West
Summer 2023 Workshop Report
September 28, 2023
The Six-Week Workshop moved back online this summer, with a cohort that embraced the flexibility of working from their homes and making global connections remotely.
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