On Saturday, July 29th, 2023, friends, former neighbors, and fans of acclaimed science fiction author Octavia E. Butler gathered at the intersection of NE 165th Street and 37th Avenue NE in Lake Forest Park to celebrate the renaming of the stretch of 37th Avenue NE to “Octavia Butler Avenue.” Octavia spent her final years on…
Clarion West is pleased to announce Tor.com as presenting sponsor of the Flash Fiction Workshop, returning this summer as part of our 2022 Write-a-thon! Tor.com is an online magazine and community site that covers science fiction, fantasy, and all the many related subjects that interest us as readers. Their aim is to explore, encourage, and…
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…
Every year, Clarion West brings the Write-a-thon to our global community. As we host our usual summer six-week events online for the second year in a row, the global community has once again shown up, signed up, and turned out for what will certainly be our biggest Write-a-thon ever! Thanks for a fantastic first week! Here’s…