Introducing the Clarion West Class of 2016

Clarion West is honored to present the Summer Workshop Class of 2016: Taimur Ahmad, from New York City/Princeton, New Jersey Betsy Aoki, from Seattle, Washington Elizabeth Bartmess, from San Francisco, California Octavia Cade, from New Zealand Paul DesCombaz, from Saint Paul, Minnesota Lora Gray, from Kent, Ohio C.A. Hawksmoor, from North Wales Jon Lasser, from…

Clarion West Alumni News for February 2016

There’s some great reading for cold February evenings in this month’s Alumni News! Clarion West’s staff and volunteers are busy with applications and preparing for this summer’s workshop and readings. We’ve just announced four new One-Day Workshops for spring 2016: Writing in Scenes, taught by Jack Skillingstead and Nancy Kress on March 20 Blistering Action Scenes…

Clarion West Alumni News for January 2016

Welcome to the new year! Everyone here at Clarion West is excited about what the new year holds: the Summer Workshop, One-Day Workshops, the Summer Reading Series, the Write-a-thon, and more. Applications are still open for the Clarion West Summer Workshop, and the application fee is discounted to $30 before February 10. If you or a…

Clarion West co-sponsors the Door to a Pink Universe contest

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…

Applications are now open for the 2016 Clarion West Summer Workshop

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…

Clarion West Alumni News for November 2015

Here at Clarion West, we’re getting ready to open applications for the summer workshop in December—our dedicated staff and volunteers are making sure we’re all organized and ready to go. We also have several One-Day workshops now open for registration: If It’s Real, Show Me taught by Hiromi Goto on November 15 Collaboration: Twice the Work,…

Clarion West Alumni News for September 2015

As summer begins to give way to fall, Clarion West is busy preparing for Six-Week Workshop application season as well as our One-Day Workshops. As of this writing there are still spaces left in these workshops: Immersion Strategies taught by Kij Johnson on October 11 Technology and Magic as Characters taught by Hannu Rajaniemi on October 18…