Mary Rosenblum (1952-2018)

Clarion West is pleased to announce six new One-Day Workshops this winter and spring: January 22, 2017 with instructor Curtis C. Chen Synopses and Queries: How Do They Work? February 19, 2017 with instructors Ted Kosmatka and Jack Skillingstead Scene One: The Rocketry of Fiction March 5 with instructor Kat Richardson A Matter of Character:…
By Eileen Gunn Howard Waldrop (September 15, 1946–January 14, 2024) was a subgenre of fiction all by himself. In the 1990s, he was a stalwart Clarion West instructor—so stalwart, in fact, that the workshop selection process included a Waldrop Advisory: he shouldn’t be scheduled for the beginning weeks of the workshop, because he dazzled the…
Seattle—Clarion West has been approved for a $10,000 Grants for Arts Projects award to support salaries and administrative costs for expanding online adult and youth writing workshops. This project will bring together the rich history of Clarion West intensive writing workshops with the need to provide low cost and accessible online programming for emerging writers…
“[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 —…
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.
We are delighted to announce that the Sally Klages Memorial Fellowship, inaugurated last year, will be awarded once more to an instructor at this year’s Summer Workshop. The Sally Klages Memorial Fellowship, presented by science fiction luminary Ellen Klages in honor of her sister Sally, will cover travel, living arrangements, and remuneration for the resident…