National Endowment for the Arts awards grant to Clarion West

National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Jane Chu has approved more than $82 million to fund local arts projects across the country in the NEA’s second major funding announcement for fiscal year 2017. Included in this announcement is an Art Works award to Clarion West in support of the Summer Workshop and Summer Reading Series….

Clarion West Alumni News for May 2017

Welcome to the Clarion West May Alumni News! Here at Clarion West, we’re getting ready for the Summer Workshop, putting all the details in place and anticipating meeting the students when they arrive next month. If you’re in the Pacific Northwest, please join us for the Summer Reading Series, where you can meet our distinguished instructors…

Clarion West Alumni News for March 2017

Welcome to the Clarion West March Alumni News! There’s a lot of excellent news this month in awards and publications. There are still spaces available in these One-Day Workshops: April 2, 2017 with instructor Hannu Rajaniemi: Technology and Magic as Characters May 21, 2017 with instructor Randy Henderson: Level Up as a Writer June 4, 2017 with…

Introducing the Clarion West Class of 2017

Clarion West is honored to present the Clarion West Summer Workshop Class of 2017, who hail from Singapore, Cyprus, Mexico, England, and the United States: Andrea M. Pawley Mark Galarrita Izzy Wasserstein A. T. Greenblatt Gordon White Stephanie Malia Morris Robert Minto E.L. Bangs Andrea Chapela Patrick Lofgren Joanne Lim-Pousard Vina Jie-Min Prasad Shweta Adhyam…

Clarion West Alumni News for January 2017

Welcome to the first Alumni News of 2017! Books, stories, and more abound this month. Applications for the 2017 Summer Workshop are open. The application fee increases to $60 after February 10, so if you’re thinking about applying, now’s a great time. Most of our students hear about the workshop from friends, colleagues, and teachers,…

Clarion West Alumni News for December 2016

December is here, and Summer Workshop application season is upon us!  If you’d like to apply, or know someone who does, you can find the details on the Summer Workshop page. We’ve also just announced six new One-Day workshops for  winter and spring: January 22, 2017 with instructor Curtis C. Chen: Synopses and Queries: How Do They…