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Clarion West Receives Three-Year Grant for New Development Staff from the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust

Clarion West recently received a grant from the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust of Vancouver, Washington, for the organization’s first Development Director. This is a full-time, hybrid position based in Seattle, WA. The position has been filled and we are excited to announce it soon.  This grant will provide the capacity to hire our new development position…

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ALL IN FOR SPECULATIVE FICTION

Support Excellent Storytelling in the Clarion West Crowdfunding Campaign Would you like to join an RPG session with award-winning science fiction writer, Annalee Newitz? Join a virtual consultation with award-winning writer Kij Johnson? Or have a manuscript critique with Justin C. Key? Keep an eye out for these and other packages from Clarion West’s upcoming…

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The 2024 Butler and Worldbuilder Scholars

Tanisha Tekriwal is this year’s Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarship recipient This scholarship has been donated annually since 2007 by the Carl Brandon Society to writers of color attending Clarion and Clarion West. Octavia attended the Clarion Writers Workshop in Pennsylvania in 1970 and taught at Clarion San Diego and Clarion West for many years;…

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The 2025 Summer Workshop Instructors & Format

The Clarion West Six-Week workshop will be virtual in 2025, with a new format designed to give students more time to write, additional lecture time with instructors, and more experimentation with workshopping models. If you’re interested in learning more about our housing situation and our decision to alternate virtual and in-person workshop years, click here….

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Week Five in Review

Our Week 5 instructor, Ruoxi Chen, brought her deep knowledge of markets and vast experience as an in-house acquiring editor to the classroom this week. Among lightning feedback rounds and deep dives into comps and influences, Ruoxi encouraged the class to imagine the markets to which they might eventually send their work. Actively considering the…