Groundbreaking music artist, actor, and overall phenomenon Janelle Monáe released the story collection The Memory Librarian this past Tuesday, which expands the Afrofuturistic universe of her much-celebrated Dirty Computer album. Monáe has been on tour with the book and its writers. Town Hall Seattle will feature a conversation between Janelle Monáe and Yohanca Delgado this…
It is with great excitement that we present the Clarion West class of 2022. After an unprecedented two years without an in-person workshop, we are delighted to welcome the incoming students to Seattle this summer. The incoming class represents the most international cohort of students Clarion West has ever hosted. We are thrilled for voices…
***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…
“[A less privileged writer] leaves a disempowering workshop and faces the same disempowerment on a larger scale: though they should be in charge of their story, they are again made to listen to other people telling them what their story is or should be. The result is exactly the opposite of finding their voice —…
“I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining.”― Octavia E. Butler Even though we find ourselves already at the end of February, it feels…
Let us introduce you to Rashida Stephanie Jae Amy María Evan Stefani Erik Elly Suzanne Marnee You’ve heard that Clarion West pivoted sharply in 2020 to provide international access to an inclusive writing community and to world-class writing instructors. We held a total of 112 online writing classes and workshops for 1,500 unique participants, including…
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…