New This Year: Unlock Special Guest Instructor Q&As for the whole community! July 12: Write-a-thon Bonus Q&A in Zoom at 9:00 AM Pacific If the first $5,000 has been raised for the Write–a-thon, our first surprise guest (a past Clarion West instructor!) will join us for an hour-long Q&A in Zoom: Our first guest instructor...
The Clarion West staff will host two hours of writing and community to kick-off the Write-a-thon this year. Snacks will be provided, as well as great company. Set your goals and get started writing. If we’ve unlocked the first $5,000, we will stream the first Write-a-thon Surprise Guest together at Common AREA Maintenance, followed by...
Bring your WIP for a one hour virtual writing session hosted by Clarion Alum and Unicorn Author Club founder Minal Hajratwala (CW'19). Need a prompt? We have those, too!
Get your writing juices flowing at the mid-way mark! Bring your work-in-progress and check your writing goals — are you finally going to earn the Overachiever Badge this year? Join the Clarion West staff for two hours of writing and community. This event is free and open to the whole community! If you'd like to...
The summer’s third author event is a conversation between two of our 2025 Six-Week Workshop instructors. Join Diana Pho, editor of Erewhon Books, and award-winning writer Carlos Hernandez as they answer your questions about the state of science fiction and fantasy publishing today. Have a novel you've finished that you'd love to untrunk? Wondering what...
Bring your WIP for a one hour virtual writing session hosted by Clarion Alum and Unicorn Author Club founder Minal Hajratwala (CW'19). Need a prompt? We have those, too!
July’s open mic will be another summer partnership between Clarion West and Two Hour Transport! Held at the Magnuson Park Amphitheater, this outdoor open mic is a community favorite. This is a free event.
The Clarion West Summer Reading Series will be held virtually and streamed live over Zoom during the Six-Week Workshop. Join us for our final event, a conversation between Martha Wells and Kate Elliott! This event will begin with a conversation between Martha and Kate. There will be time to take questions from the audience. Participants will be...
Join the Clarion West board, staff, and the Class of 2025 to celebrate their graduation from the Six-Week Workshop! This will be a hybrid event with student readings, a presentation of each graduate (via Zoom), and recognition of the Octavia E. Butler Scholarship recipient. The event will be followed by a social that will take...
Join the Clarion West board, staff, and Seattle Community to kick off WorldCon in Seattle! You can expect a classic, potluck-style Clarion West summer party. The event is free and all are welcome. No WorldCon membership required. Please RSVP so we can get a headcount, and to get event announcements. Hugo House will offer a no-host bar....
Join the Clarion West board, staff, and Seattle Community for an off-site Worldcon event for alumni and friends! The event begins with a reading featuring Andrea Hairston (CW ’99), Tim Chawaga (CW ’19), Natalia Theodoridou (CW ’18), David Sandner (CW ’87), Kristina Ten (CW ’19), and Henry Lien (CW ’12). After a short state-of-the-org and...
We're excited to host a conversation with Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron this fall. The event corresponds with the release of Doctorow's newest book, Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It. More information to come.