Clarion West Fall 2014 One-Day Workshops

Registration is open for the Spring 2014 Clarion West One-Day Workshops, taught by Rachel Swirsky, Nicola Griffith, Lisa Gold, and Louise Marley. These six-hour intensives focus on skills useful to all speculative fiction writers. All sessions take place on Sundays in Seattle’s University District. For more information, visit the One-Day Workshop page.

We wrap up November and the United States’ Native American Heritage Month with the following list of recommended speculative fiction reading by Indigenous writers of North and Central America and the surrounding islands. On this list, we focus primarily on those writers who are current members and/or descend from the First Nations of Canada, the…

With a gift of $1,000, Blue Corn Creations, a publishing firm undertaking a variety of Native American-themed projects, has launched a scholarship for writers of Native American descent at the Clarion West Writers Workshop. “We’re excited about developing the next generation of Native superhero, science fiction, and action/adventure stories,” said Rob Schmidt, owner of Blue…

We stand in solidarity with the Asian American and Pacific Islander community and condemn the racially motivated, white supremacist violence of the Atlanta shootings on March 17.* It doesn’t matter how many times we say this. We have to keep saying it: America is broken. You know it. I know it. If you are BIPOC,…