Status: Part-time, up to 10 hours per month Location: Remote Reports to: Executive Director Salary: $28/hour starting The Website Manager is responsible for maintaining and updating Clarion West’s website, which runs on WordPress CMS and utilizes a dedicated WordPress hosting service. The Website Manager also manages Clarion West’s Google Suite instance and assists as needed…
Funded! We’re pleased to announce that the 2025 Greg Bear Memorial Instructorship has been funded for another year! With support from Astrid Bear, Jeff and Bonney Lemkin, Karen Anderson, Joe and Gay Haldeman, Curtis Frye, and an anonymous donor, we’ve completed the fund! We can’t thank you enough for supporting the workshop and our incredible…
With heartfelt gratitude, we thank all of the businesses and organizations that have sponsored Steamy in Seattle 2025! Our sponsors help ensure fundraising success while reaching an inclusive community of writers from Seattle and all over the world. Interstellar Sponsor Milky Way Sponsor In-Kind and Supporting Sponsors Benjamin Sands Reads Canlis Restaurant Cassie Alexander Books…
Hagen Insurance Partners has sponsored Steamy in Seattle each year that we’ve held it! I reached out to Cindy Hagen, the owner, to see why she’s supporting Clarion West. Marnee Chua: Tell us all about Hagen Insurance Partners, who do you work with? Cindy Hagen: I’m an independent insurance agent specializing in health insurance for…
Meet Sejuti Bala Each year, Clarion West works with a new artist to create an image that is used across the Write-a-thon, on our website, and for the Summer of Science Fiction & Fantasy reading series poster. The poster illustration is custom designed by the artist with their personal interpretation of speculative fiction. In 2025,…
We are delighted to welcome a new group of writers to the Clarion West family! Clarion West will be running virtually this summer, and we’ll be managing time travel over at least eight time zones for a group of 15 joining us from Sri Lanka, Germany, Nigeria, Canada, Mexico, Saudi Arabia (by way of Pakistan),…
In December, Clarion West announced the search for our new Development Director thanks to a three-year grant from the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust. Our board and staff are pleased to announce that we’ve hired L.D. Lewis for the position! L. D. Lewis (she/her) is an editor and Shirley Jackson award-nominated author. Many folks in our…
Clarion West is pleased to announce that Vonda N. McIntyre’s final novel, THE CURVE OF THE WORLD, will be published by Aqueduct Press. Six years after McIntyre’s passing, this amazing story can finally be told. The Curve of The World explores an alternate Minoan civilization and was completed shortly before McIntyre’s death in 2019. Vonda…
The Clarion West staff are thrilled to announce the students of our inaugural Novel Writing Workshop with Samit Basu, a veteran instructor of our Six-Week Workshop. This group will embark on nine months of weekly meetings and writing sessions with the goal of completing a first novel draft! Please join us in congratulating these twelve…
Important dates, what to expect, and exciting changes for our summer programs! We’ve been making plans to help you focus on your writing, find community easier, and join us for more programs! ====Our popular Flash Fiction Groups are back June 8 – July 3, 2025!====Are you looking to bring a more personalized and dynamic writing…