The Seventh Week features a roundup of news from within the Clarion West community. You’ll find interviews with instructors, former students, and volunteers; reports from staff and board members; and articles on the world of creative writing.
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By Eileen Gunn Howard Waldrop (September 15, 1946–January 14, 2024) was a subgenre of fiction all by himself. In the 1990s, he was a stalwart Clarion West instructor—so stalwart, in fact, that the workshop selection process included a Waldrop Advisory: he shouldn’t be scheduled for the beginning weeks of the workshop, because he dazzled the…
By Nisi Shawl Mama said there’d be days like this. My friend Terry Bisson is dead and gone. He was an author and editor extraordinaire, able to whip out words in such an order, with such a tastiness, that we who read them could only gasp and gulp them down and ask for more. Well…
The Six-Week Workshop moved back online this summer, with a cohort that embraced the flexibility of working from their homes and making global connections remotely. Our 15 students joined from Brazil, Ghana, the U.K., Mexico, the Bahamas, and the U.S., with a high concentration of East Coasters! Although the group was faced with the challenge…
On Tuesday, during N.K. Jemisin’s hybrid reading from Astoria Bookshop in New York, Clarion West’s Workshop Facilitator, María Alejandra Barrios, announced our instructors for the upcoming 2024 Six-Week Summer Workshop! The Clarion West 2024 Six-Week Summer Workshop will take place from June 16 – July 27, 2024. Applications for the 2024 Six-Week Workshop are planned…
This year, in lieu of our usual Spring Seventh Week newsletter, we decided to feature a few interviews from our Clarion West Six-Week Workshop community! We’re excited to share a conversation with Week 3 instructor Samit Basu, where he discusses his work, publishing journey, and what he’s looking forward to with Clarion West. We’ve also…
The Clarion West Writers Workshop was founded on the belief that writers from diverse backgrounds need an opportunity to be heard — and to experiment with new forms of storytelling. Clarion West has historically been successful in reaching women writers and LGBTQIA+ writers, and many of our graduates are actively publishing in the field. With…
It’s one thing to have a relationship with individuals. A friendship. A long-term admiration. A fan’s enthusiastic following. It’s another to have a relationship with an organization. What does it mean for an organization, an entire body of people, thoughts, and ideals, to miss a single person? I’m sitting down to write this tribute as…
Watch ‘Round, Cayden Browne by N.A. Blair; Workshop Report by Jae Steinbacher (CW ’14), Workshop Coordinator; Donor Spotlight: Isabel Cañas (CW 18) by Stefani Cox, Communications Specialist; In Memoriam by Marnee Chua, Executive Director
We made it! The six weeks of Clarion West’s summer programming conclude today, and we couldn’t be more impressed by the enthusiasm and hard work we’ve seen throughout that time. It’s time for a big round of applause and thank yous to everyone who made it happen! Write-a-thon To our participants, we say a deep…
We are thrilled to announce our instructors for the upcoming 2023 Six-Week Summer Workshop! The Clarion West 2023 Six-Week Summer Workshop will take place from June 25 – August 5, 2023. Applications for the 2023 Summer Workshop open in early January 2023. Each year, Clarion West is able to provide full and partial scholarships to…