The weather’s gotten chilly in Seattle, but at Clarion West our hearts are warm and full of gratitude this holiday season. Many, many thanks to our volunteers and supporters who put their time and funds into making this one of the best workshops in the known universe! If you’re thinking about your year-end giving, now’s…
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…
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,…
It’s the time of year when people in the Seattle area are apparently collectively obsessed with squash and the weather has begun to cool off after a record-breaking summer. Here at Clarion West we’re hard at work behind the scenes, getting ready to open applications for the 2016 Six-Week Workshop as well as announce some…
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
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…
The workshop is over, our newly-minted alumni have returned home, and our dedicated workshop staff are getting some much-needed sleep. It was a fantastic summer, and I’d like to thank everyone who supported the workshop and the Write-a-thon, attended the readings, and provided needed items for the students. The instructors for 2016 have been announced, and applications…
It’s the busiest time of year for Clarion West—the Six-Week Workshop, the Summer Reading Series, and the Write-a-thon are in high gear! The Six-Week Workshop students arrived in Seattle this year at the beginning of a historic heat wave, but they’re soldiering through and getting some excellent work done. If you’re in the Seattle area,…
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….