Job opportunity: Clarion West seeks new Executive Director
Clarion West is seeking an Executive Director to oversee operations and fundraising for the organization. For details, please see Work for Clarion West.
Clarion West is seeking an Executive Director to oversee operations and fundraising for the organization. For details, please see Work for Clarion West.
2025 UPDATE: We are partnering with Common AREA Maintenance (CAM), a Seattle-based artist and writer cooperative on developing a residency floor in the El Rey building in downtown Seattle! Read more about this project and updates here. Full background on housing for the Six-Week Workshop: Clarion West has a long history of partnering with universities…
Writing the Other and Clarion West, two Seattle-based writing organizations, announce the beginning of a new partnership. Clarion West will serve as the fiscal sponsor for Writing the Other, as the organizations explore partnership opportunities and shared resource development. Fiscal sponsorship will enable the two mission-aligned organizations to share resources, which keeps administrative expenses down….
We’re now taking names for our waiting lists for our Fall 2013 One-Day Workshops–taught by celebrated authors Daniel Abraham, Karen Joy Fowler, and Kij Johnson–on our One-Day Workshop page. These six-hour intensives focus on skills useful to all speculative fiction writers. All sessions take place in Seattle’s University District. More information here.
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 community, have raised the 2nd half to fully fund the instructorship at $5,000 for the 2024 Workshop! A huge round of thanks to donors Jeffrey Lemkin, Astrid Bear, Albert Folsom,…
During our 2021 Write-a-thon, we spoke with three writers who are also a chaplain, an ICU nurse, and a doctor of psychiatry, to hear their insights on the topic of mental health for writers–as well as writing about mental health. That panel is recorded on YouTube here: Mental Health for Writers. The time went so quickly…
It’s one thing to have a relationship with individuals. A friendship. A long-term admiration. A fan’s enthusiastic following. It’s another to have a relationship with an organization. What does it mean for an organization, an entire body of people, thoughts, and ideals, to miss a single person? I’m sitting down to write this tribute as…
Writing can be a lonely pursuit. Clarion West provides community and world-class instruction to early-career writers of science-fiction, fantasy, and horror; and we need your help now more than ever. DONATE TODAY! Any amount is valuable; and a recurring monthly gift provides us with stability in what promises to be an interesting future.