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Clarion West is honored to present the Summer Workshop Class of 2014: Adanze Asante, from Brooklyn, New York Alexander Berman, from Los Angeles, California Christopher Nickolas Carlson, from Beijing, China Curtis C. Chen, from Vancouver, Washington Shannon Fay, from Halifax, Nova Scotia Folly Blaine, from Seattle, Washington Rich Larson, from Edmonton, Alberta Michael Matheson, from…

Clarion West is going to be at Emerald City Comicon, March 28-30, and we need your help! We want to showcase the many and varied talents of Clarion West graduates at our table. If you are an alumnus, we would love to feature promotional materials for your books, podcasts, or stories at the Clarion West…

Registration is open for the Spring 2014 Clarion West One-Day Workshops, taught by Rachel Swirsky, Nicola Griffith, Lisa Gold, and Louise Marley. These six-hour intensives focus on skills useful to all speculative fiction writers. All sessions take place on Sundays in Seattle’s University District. For more information, visit the One-Day Workshop page.

Clarion West is pleased to announce that Kris Millering has joined the staff as our Communications Specialist. Kris attended the Six-Week Workshop in 2009, and has nearly two decades of experience working on marketing and site production for tech companies in the greater Seattle area. Among many other things, she will be working on the…

We’re excited to announce that Clarion West has a new Executive Director: Caroline Bobanick. Caroline’s previous experience includes working as Executive Director for the Environmental Science Center in south King County; as Development Director at Seattle’s Gage Academy of Art; and as Special Events Manager at Pilchuck Glass School, also in Seattle. Caroline has already…

On Tuesday, July 30, Workshop Director Leslie Howle announced the instructor line-up for Clarion West’s 2014 Six-Week Writers Workshop: Paul Park, Kij Johnson, Ian McDonald, Hiromi Goto, Charlie Jane Anders, and John Crowley. John Crowley will be our 2014 Susan C. Petrey Fellow. We’ll have more information for you on our 2014 instructors on this…

This Spring, we were one of 817 nonprofit organizations to receive a National Endowment for the Arts grant. Our $10,000 Art Works grant is helping CW to continue to present our world-renowned Six-Week and One-Day writing workshops. We’re grateful to have received such a powerful validation of what we do, and of the work you…

Telling Tales, edited by Ellen Datlow, is a new anthology of stories by award-winning and acclaimed Clarion West graduates. Read stories by Rachel Swirsky, Ben Rosenbaum, Kij Johnson, David Levine, and many more of your favorite authors, plus essays by Ursula K. Le Guin, Gardner Dozois, Nancy Kress, Greg Bear, and other great Clarion West…

We’re now taking names for our waiting lists for our Fall 2013 One-Day Workshops–taught by celebrated authors Daniel Abraham, Karen Joy Fowler, and Kij Johnson–on our One-Day Workshop page. These six-hour intensives focus on skills useful to all speculative fiction writers. All sessions take place in Seattle’s University District. More information here.