It’s one thing to have a relationship with individuals. A friendship. A long-term admiration. A fan’s enthusiastic following. It’s another to have a relationship with an organization. What does it mean for an organization, an entire body of people, thoughts, and ideals, to miss a single person? I’m sitting down to write this tribute as…
Clarion West has a long history of partnering with universities and organizations in the Seattle area to house the Six-Week Workshop. As we’ve honed in on what our students need for their workshop experience and focused on affordability, equity, and accessibility, the number of potential partners has narrowed. Even before the pandemic, we couldn’t secure…
Clarion West graduate and instructor Kathleen Alcalá (CW ’87) remembers Bruce Taylor, a fixture in the Clarion West community since the first workshop, held in Seattle in 1971. Bruce Taylor, who liked to be known as “Mr. Magic Realism,” was born May 28, 1947 in Seattle, Washington and passed away on August 31, 2022 at…
[Edit: Missed any of the readings? Check out our YouTube channel to see if the livestream has been uploaded to watch (give us a little time after each reading to edit and share the video).] Clarion West is thrilled to bring back the Summer of Science Fiction & Fantasy reading series in 2022! The readings…
Dear Clarion West family and friends, I am so pleased to share the Clarion West 2020-2021 Combined Annual Report, a testament to our collective community power. There’s been a lot to do and think about over the past two years, but I’m forever grateful to everyone who has stepped forward to focus on the speculative…
***NOTE: This workshop has been postponed from the date listed below. We will update once we have new information. Thanks!*** Essay Writing for Professional Liars Instructor: Elsa SjunnesonDate & Time: May 15 from 12pm-4pm Pacific TimeLocation: Hugo House, 1634 11th Avenue, Seattle Clarion West is thrilled to bring the fabulous Elsa Sjunneson back for our first in-person…
Think You Know A Lot About Space Ships? Magic Swords? Fantasy Worlds? Video Games? Talking Animals? Warp Drives? Alien Invaders? AI Overlords? …. … .. ? Speculative Fiction Trivia Night is back in 2022! Join us on Sunday, March 20 at 5pm Think you know a lot about speculative fiction? Our quizmaster Seanan McGuire leads the multiverse’s most challenging trivia night of science…
The following message was sent to us from Tania Chen as part of our 2021 #successstories series: My name is Tania Chen, and I am a Chinese Mexican queer writer living in Mexico City. I guess I consider myself primarily a speculative horror writer. I love horror, whether it’s in film format, or book, or…
Introduction by Greg Bear, with obituary by Ian K. Hagemann, originally published to Facebook on January 8, 2022 Here’s to the passing of Jane E. Hawkins, one of our esteemed Clarion West students from the class of ’88. We have also lost from this class Mary Rosenblum and Kathy Ann Goonan. As a teacher of…
Applications are open for the 2022 Clarion West Workshop for speculative fiction writers. Offered every summer in Seattle, Clarion West has over 600 graduates, including Russell L. Bates (winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Miami International Science Fiction Film Festival), editor Sheree Renée Thomas (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction), Nisi Shawl…