Mary Rosenblum (1952-2018)

Telling Tales, edited by Ellen Datlow, is a new anthology of stories by award-winning and acclaimed Clarion West graduates. Read stories by Rachel Swirsky, Ben Rosenbaum, Kij Johnson, David Levine, and many more of your favorite authors, plus essays by Ursula K. Le Guin, Gardner Dozois, Nancy Kress, Greg Bear, and other great Clarion West…
The Clarion West staff are thrilled to announce the students of our inaugural Novel Writing Workshop with Samit Basu, a veteran instructor of our Six-Week Workshop. This group will embark on nine months of weekly meetings and writing sessions with the goal of completing a first novel draft! Please join us in congratulating these twelve…
Clarion West is pleased to announce the instructors for the 2018 Summer Workshop. Week 1 – Daniel Abraham Week 2 – Ken MacLeod Week 3 – Yoon Ha Lee Week 4 – Karen Lord Week 5 – Karen Joy Fowler Week 6 – Ellen Datlow Read more about the instructors on the Summer Workshop page….
A Classmate Remembers Kathleen Ann Goonan Beverly Suarez-Beard Kathleen Ann Goonan (CW ’88) died on January 28, 2021, at the age of 68. She was the award-winning author of more than forty short stories and seven novels. Her first novel, Queen City Jazz (1994), a New York Times Notable Book, was short-listed for the British Science Fiction Association Award. Her…
Meet Sejuti Bala Each year, Clarion West works with a new artist to create an image that is used across the Write-a-thon, on our website, and for the Summer of Science Fiction & Fantasy reading series poster. The poster illustration is custom designed by the artist with their personal interpretation of speculative fiction. In 2025,…
Please join us at 6 pm on Saturday, November 22 for an evening of conversation, nibbles, drinks, and a tour of one of the great collections of science fiction and fantasy books and art at the home of Greg and Astrid Bear. Greg and Astrid are hosting this event. Greg will provide a personally guided…