Clarion West is proud to announce their sponsorship of the Seattle Public Library’s flash fiction contest, Door to a Pink Universe. This contest is in honor of Octavia Butler, who taught several times for Clarion West and who heralded libraries for their contribution to her development as a writer. One of the prizes for this…
Clarion West is pleased to announce that applications are now open for the 2016 Summer Six-Week Workshop. This is one of the premier workshops of its type for speculative fiction, and workshop alumni have gone on to do amazing things. Apply before February 10, 2016, and get $20 off the application fee. For more information…
We are pleased to announce new One-Day Workshops for winter: The Three Ps: Plotting, Planning, and Progress January 17, 2016 – Mark Teppo How to Read As a Writer February 21, 2016 – L. Timmel Duchamp
Clarion West is pleased to announce the instructors for the 2016 Summer Six-Week Workshop: Paul Park (Clarion West’s 2016 Leslie Howle Fellow) Stephen Graham Jones Elizabeth Bear N.K. Jemisin Sheila Williams Geoff Ryman (Clarion West’s 2016 Susan C. Petrey Fellow) More information about these distinguished instructors will be posted on the Clarion West website soon….
Clarion West is sorry to have to announce a change in this year’s instructor lineup. Connie Willis is temporarily unable to travel for health reasons, and will not be able to teach Week Four this year. Stepping in for her is Susan Palwick, the award-winning author of Mending the Moon and The Fate of Mice….
Through its grant-making to thousands of nonprofits each year, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) promotes opportunities for people in communities across America to experience the arts and exercise their creativity. In the second major grant announcement of fiscal year 2015, the NEA will make an award to Clarion West in support of the…
Clarion West’s exciting Summer Reading Series, featuring prominent writers of science fiction and fantasy who are teaching its prestigious Six-Week Workshop, will take place in June and July of 2015. This year’s workshop instructors hail from all over the world and between them write an incredible variety of work: from Afro-Caribbean speculative fiction, to one…
Clarion West is honored to present the Summer Workshop Class of 2015: Dinesh Pulandram, from Melbourne, Australia Garret Johnston, from Sherwood Park, Alberta Rebecca Campbell, from Windsor, Ontario Monidipa “Mimi” Mondal, from Calcutta*, India Thersa Matsuura, from Yaizu, Japan Samuel Kolawole, from Ibadan, Nigeria Michael Sebastian, from Los Angeles, CA Jake Stone, from Bloomington, IN…
Please join Clarion West on April 25 for an evening of conversation and conviviality with Kim Stanley Robinson and fellow speculative fiction fans and writers. Enjoy specially selected wines and paella made on-site at one of the most spectacular homes in Seattle. The highlight of the evening will include a lively discussion led by Greg…
Registration is now open for our three Spring One-Day Workshops: Sunday, March 15 • L. Timmel Duchamp • How to Read As a Writer For this workshop only, the registration fee is $150. Critiques from a variety of readers give writers insight into how the words they’ve put on the page are being transformed into the…