Now Hiring: Website Manager

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…

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Funded! The Greg Bear Memorial Instructorship 2025

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…

Thank you to our generous sponsors!

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…

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Sponsor Spotlight: Hagen Insurance Partners

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…

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2025 Featured Artist

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,…

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Announcing New Development Director – L.D. Lewis

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…

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The Curve of The World To Be Published By Aqueduct Press!

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…

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Introducing Clarion West’s 2025 Novel Workshop Class

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…