Clarion West Alumni News for May 2020
Dear Alumni and Friends,
A heartfelt THANK YOU for all of our GiveBIG donors this year! Your support overwhelmed us and will go a long way to paying for our spring and summer free classes and workshops that we have been offering in support of writers during these very trying times. By the time that donations closed, with our match guaranteed our community raised just over $9,000! Thank you to everyone who pitched in!
Alumni Award Nominations & Publication News
The following alumni are nominated for awards this season, and you may be able to vote for them! In pride, we congratulate:
Tegan Moore (CW ’15)
Asimov’s Readers’ Award
Best Novella: “The Work of Wolves”
Andy Duncan (CW ’94)
Asimov’s Readers’ Award
Best Novelette: “Charlie Tells Another One”
Vylar Kaftan (CW ’04)
Nebula Award
Best Novella: “Her Silhouette, Drawn in Water”
Siobhan Carroll (CW ’09)
Hugo Award
Nebula Award
Best Novelette: “For He Can Creep”
Mimi Mondal (CW ’15)
Nebula Award
Best Novelette: “His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light”
Nibedita Sen (CW ’15)
Astounding Award for Best New Writer
Nebula Award
Hugo Award
Best Short Story: “Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island”
Caroline M Yoachim (CW ’06)
Nebula Award
Hugo Award
Best Novelette: “The Archronology of Love”
Shiv Ramdas (CW ’16)
Nebula Award
Hugo Award
Best Short Story: “And Now His Lordship Is Laughing”
Cat Rambo (CW ’05)
Nebula Award
Best Novelette: “Carpe Glitter”
Lawrence Schimel, translator (CW ’91)
Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry
Impure Acts by Angelo Néstore
Craig Laurance Gidney (CW ’96)
Lambda Literary Award
LBGTQ SF/F/Horror (book): A Spectral Hue
Marlee Jane Ward (CW ’14)
Aurealis Award
Best Science Fiction Novella: Prisoncorp
Best YA Short Story: “Rats”
These are nominations; we look forward to seeing our alumni win!
Did we overlook your nomination? Please contact us at alumni@clarionwest.org to notify us of publications and nominations in the future!
Recent Alumni Publications and Professional Accomplishments:
Lauren Dixon (CW ’10)
Welcome to the Bitch Bubble (first collection!)
from Hydra House
Sheree Renée Thomas (CW ’99)
from Third Man Books
Lawrence Schimel, translator (CW ’91)
Itinerary of Forgetting by Nelson Simón
from Skull & Wind Press
Kara Lockharte and Cassie Alexander (both CW ’07)
from Amazon
Michael Matheson (CW ’14)
Idol Pursuits from Nisaba Press (Mutants and Masterminds tie-in)
Craig Laurance Gidney (CW ’96)
Hairsbreath, a serial novel from Broken Eye Books
E.C. Barrett (CW ’18)
“We Aren’t Violent People“ in Bourbon Penn
Phoebe Barton (CW ’19)
“Purplefall” (CW week 1 story!) in Broadcasts from the Wasteland (audio)
Gardner Mounce (CW ’19)
“Milkshakes” in The Oddville Press
Millie Ho (CW ’19)
“The Fenghuang” in Lightspeed magazine
Minal Hajratwala (CW ’19)
from “Crossdreaming: Praxis” in Poetry
“Limnology of the Minor Goddesses” in Prairie Schooner
new editor-at-large, Zocalo Public Square
Eugenia Triantafyllou (CW ’19)
“Those We Serve” in Interzone
Kris Ten (CW ’19)
“Except for the Down Below” in Black Static
Robert Guffey (CW ’96)
“The Lemon Thief” and “The Pharmacy” in Rosebud magazine
Maura McHugh (CW ’06)
“King for a Day” in SMASH! 2020 Special
Jed Hartman (CW ’91)
started Constellation Press
Adele Gardner (CW ’04)
“Bird Brains” in The Cafe Irreal
Audio reading of “Hades and Persephone”/“Persephone’s Dream” by Delbert R. Gardner, in Timeless Tales
and poems in Poetry Virginia, Star*Line, Spectral Realms, 2020 Rhysling Anthology: Best Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Poetry of 2019, and more!