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.
Clarion West is searching for an artist to create artwork for our 2025 featured artwork. Clarion West seeks to commission one custom illustration with unlimited global rights. Please share this call with the artists you know that might be a great fit, and see below for details. What we’re looking for Each year, we seek…
Groundbreaking music artist, actor, and overall phenomenon Janelle Monáe released the story collection The Memory Librarian this past Tuesday, which expands the Afrofuturistic universe of her much-celebrated Dirty Computer album. Monáe has been on tour with the book and its writers. Town Hall Seattle will feature a conversation between Janelle Monáe and Yohanca Delgado this…
Our Week 5 instructor, Ruoxi Chen, brought her deep knowledge of markets and vast experience as an in-house acquiring editor to the classroom this week. Among lightning feedback rounds and deep dives into comps and influences, Ruoxi encouraged the class to imagine the markets to which they might eventually send their work. Actively considering the…
On Tuesday, July 30, Workshop Director Leslie Howle announced the instructor line-up for Clarion West’s 2014 Six-Week Writers Workshop: Paul Park, Kij Johnson, Ian McDonald, Hiromi Goto, Charlie Jane Anders, and John Crowley. John Crowley will be our 2014 Susan C. Petrey Fellow. We’ll have more information for you on our 2014 instructors on this…
“[A less privileged writer] leaves a disempowering workshop and faces the same disempowerment on a larger scale: though they should be in charge of their story, they are again made to listen to other people telling them what their story is or should be. The result is exactly the opposite of finding their voice —…
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 selected class includes students in Ghana, the U.K. by way of Pakistan, Brazil, the Bahamas, Mexico, and the United States. We can’t wait to get to know them better and…