Supported by the Greg Bear Memorial Instructorship Sarah Pinsker is the award-winning author of A Song For A New Day, We Are Satellites, Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea, Lost Places, and over sixty works of short fiction. She is also a singer/songwriter with four albums on various indie labels. The Clarion West Summer Reading Series will be held...
In conversation with Molly Templeton Ruoxi Chen is a Hugo Award-winning book editor based in New York City. She’s had the pleasure of working on books that have been shortlisted for the Ilube Nommo, Nebula, and NAACP Image Awards, and that have won the Alex, Locus, Crawford, Ignyte, Shirley Jackson, World Fantasy, Astounding, and Hugo Awards,...
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. Participants will be encouraged to use Parable of the Sower for their story prompt.
Supported by the Susan C. Petrey Memorial Fellowship Carmen Maria Machado is the author of the bestselling memoir In the Dream House and the award-winning short story collection Her Body and Other Parties. She has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the winner of the Bard Fiction Prize, the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, and...
Original music inspired by Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz — Part of the Banned Books Season! Find the Clarion West table at the event!After inspiring nightmares—and controversy—for generations, the eerie, unforgettable tales of Alvin Schwarz's Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark will now inspire spooky original music for the Bushwick stage....
The Book of Love Book Discussion Sunday, October 27, 2024, 5-7 pm Ada’s Technical Books, 425 15th Ave E, Seattle, WA 98112 This meeting is free, but we encourage attendees to support Ada’s by purchasing the book at the store. Buy The Book This event coincides with Kelly’s appearance at Town Hall as part of Ted Chiang Presents: Love, Hope,...
Ted Chiang Presents: Love, Hope, and Other Four Letter Words with Kelly Link at Town Hall Seattle — Part of the SAL Ted Chiang Presents series. Find the Clarion West table at the event! The Book of Love showcases Kelly Link at the height of her powers, channeling potent magic and attuned to all varieties of love—from...
Original music inspired by Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler — Part of the Banned Books Season! Find the Clarion West table at the event! The year is 2024. The world teeters on the edge of chaos. An authoritarian president looms. Octavia Butler’s astonishingly prescient novel Parable of the Sower weaves together urgent themes of hope,...
So Be It! See To It! A Generation Intensive Convening for Intermediate Speculative Fiction Writers This Speculative Fiction Convening is in partnership with Hedgebrook in honor of Octavia Butler. Participants will gather virtually for a 4-day retreat led by Tara Campbell, Fonda Lee, Minal Hajratwala, and Nisi Shawl! Learn with our illustrious alumnae instructors, enjoy an...
Join us for our first Community Book Swap! A free event open to everyone that would like to bring their speculative fiction (science fiction, fantasy, horror, and everything in-between) books and swap them for others. No RSVP necessary, come to Third Place Commons at any time between 2:00 pm and 4:00 pm on Sunday, December...
This is a live virtual event! For four years the Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors initiative has invited writers from across the globe to imagine futures where climate solutions flourish and all beings thrive. Through creative works of short fiction, these stories have charted not-always-easy paths toward a better world, reminding us that...
Ted Chiang Presents: Love, Hope, and Other Four Letter Words with Kelly Link at Town Hall Seattle — Part of the SAL Ted Chiang Presents series. Find the Clarion West table at the event! Described as one of the “ten greatest Taiwanese computing personalities,” and the former Digital Minister of Taiwan, Audrey Tang has made it...
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