Sponsor A Writer

Every participant in the Write-a-thon is helping to support Clarion West’s programs for emerging and underrepresented writers year-round! You can make a donation on Aditya’s page and add a positive message. Keep checking back for updates to each writer’s fundraising page for more information about their current projects and progress toward their writing goals.

I am finishing up the novella and 3 unpublished short stories for my Tower of the Rosewater Goblet collection of (mostly published) short stories, novelettes and the novella. The collection will be published in late 2025.

Every participant in the Write-a-thon is helping to support Clarion West’s programs for emerging and underrepresented writers year-round! You can make a donation on Apple’s page and add a positive message. Keep checking back for updates to each writer’s fundraising page for more information about their current projects and progress toward their writing goals.

Every participant in the Write-a-thon is helping to support Clarion West’s programs for emerging and underrepresented writers year-round! You can make a donation on Archita’s page and add a positive message. Keep checking back for updates to each writer’s fundraising page for more information about their current projects and progress toward their writing goals.

Stories are the things that help get us through our day and the times we find ourselves in.

Every participant in the Write-a-thon is helping to support Clarion West’s programs for emerging and underrepresented writers year-round! You can make a donation on Auzin’s page and add a positive message. Keep checking back for updates to each writer’s fundraising page for more information about their current projects and progress toward their writing goals.

Every participant in the Write-a-thon is helping to support Clarion West’s programs for emerging and underrepresented writers year-round! You can make a donation on Be’s page and add a positive message. Keep checking back for updates to each writer’s fundraising page for more information about their current projects and progress toward their writing goals.

Even though I can’t go to Clarion West, it’s been a terrific experience for many I know, and I want to see it continue and flourish. I appreciate the community CW has built!

I’m planning on writing my novel this summer and this write-a-thon is a wonderful way to give me the external motivation I need as well as helping a worthy cause. Attending Clarion is the dream of every science fiction and fantasy writer and I’m happy to help make those dreams a reality for someone.

Every participant in the Write-a-thon is helping to support Clarion West’s programs for emerging and underrepresented writers year-round! You can make a donation on Brian’s page and add a positive message. Keep checking back for updates to each writer’s fundraising page for more information about their current projects and progress toward their writing goals.

I want young people to have access to writing workshops that encourage them to dream of better worlds!

Clarion West is a unique experience. It helped me become a much stronger writer and editor, though I use those skills outside SFF. I want others to continue to have this opportunity to hone their skills and explore the possible paths together.

Every participant in the Write-a-thon is helping to support Clarion West’s programs for emerging and underrepresented writers year-round! You can make a donation on Cher’s page and add a positive message. Keep checking back for updates to each writer’s fundraising page for more information about their current projects and progress toward their writing goals.

Every participant in the Write-a-thon is helping to support Clarion West’s programs for emerging and underrepresented writers year-round! You can make a donation on Chris’s page and add a positive message. Keep checking back for updates to each writer’s fundraising page for more information about their current projects and progress toward their writing goals.

Clarion West changed my life sounds so cliché… Let’s go with “Clarion West saved me from a group of marauding vampire clowns who were a motorcycle gang who were also running a necromancy-based heroin empire.”

Every participant in the Write-a-thon is helping to support Clarion West’s programs for emerging and underrepresented writers year-round! You can make a donation on E.’s page and add a positive message. Keep checking back for updates to each writer’s fundraising page for more information about their current projects and progress toward their writing goals.

I grew up believing I couldn’t write. I want a different path for others.

Clarion West changed the course of my writing career and honestly my life, in marvelous ways. I want that for every writer. I hope you’ll join me in supporting this organization to push that dream one inch closer to reality.

I love the work Clarion West does and appreciate the extra motivation! Most of my work this write-a-thon will be editing and rewriting, so fingers crossed for that word count goal.

I’m fundraising to pay it forward. Others sponsored me to attend the six week workshop at a time when I was low-income. Now, I get to fund the organization that has meant so much to my writing career. This summer, I’m closing in on finally finishing the RPG I’ve been working on for several years for Choice of Games. It’s all about superheroes.

Every participant in the Write-a-thon is helping to support Clarion West’s programs for emerging and underrepresented writers year-round! You can make a donation on F. E.’s page and add a positive message. Keep checking back for updates to each writer’s fundraising page for more information about their current projects and progress toward their writing goals.

Revealing others who deal with comparable realities to some political horror science and fiction. We defend everyone else at any costs.

I attended Clarion West in 2012, and have joined the Write-a-thon every year since then. 

I believe in Clarion West’s mission to support emerging and underrepresented voices in speculative fiction. Please join me in raising funds to help!

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My goal is to write chapter 9 and perhaps start 10 of my interactive fiction game I’m creating for Choice of Games. 

Clarion West has been an amazing resource throughout my writing career. Please join me as I try to knock out the first draft of a new short story and support the next generation of writers!

Every participant in the Write-a-thon is helping to support Clarion West’s programs for emerging and underrepresented writers year-round! You can make a donation on Irlanda’s page and add a positive message. Keep checking back for updates to each writer’s fundraising page for more information about their current projects and progress toward their writing goals.

In 2017, I attended the Clarion West six-week workshop, and it changed my life in many wonderful ways: it gave me time and space to write, read, and engage with other writers; connected me to the community; and, most importantly, connected me to many people who are now my dear friends. I find it hard to express just how much Clarion West has meant to me, which is why I’m honored to raise funds for the important work Clarion West continues to do.

Every participant in the Write-a-thon is helping to support Clarion West’s programs for emerging and underrepresented writers year-round! You can make a donation on Jessica’s page and add a positive message. Keep checking back for updates to each writer’s fundraising page for more information about their current projects and progress toward their writing goals.

Every participant in the Write-a-thon is helping to support Clarion West’s programs for emerging and underrepresented writers year-round! You can make a donation on Johnny’s page and add a positive message. Keep checking back for updates to each writer’s fundraising page for more information about their current projects and progress toward their writing goals.

Clarion West changed my life! I still meet every month with some brilliant writers from my year to share and critique work, and I’ve met so many incredibly talented people in the community.

To support Clarion West’s mission of supporting emerging writers and building community.

Every participant in the Write-a-thon is helping to support Clarion West’s programs for emerging and underrepresented writers year-round! You can make a donation on Kate’s page and add a positive message. Keep checking back for updates to each writer’s fundraising page for more information about their current projects and progress toward their writing goals.

Every participant in the Write-a-thon is helping to support Clarion West’s programs for emerging and underrepresented writers year-round! You can make a donation on Katrina’s page and add a positive message. Keep checking back for updates to each writer’s fundraising page for more information about their current projects and progress toward their writing goals.

Every participant in the Write-a-thon is helping to support Clarion West’s programs for emerging and underrepresented writers year-round! You can make a donation on Kendra’s page and add a positive message. Keep checking back for updates to each writer’s fundraising page for more information about their current projects and progress toward their writing goals.

I’m in awe of the transformations that occur during the Clarion West workshop, and delight in the short stories, poems, and novels of Clarion West graduates. I’d like to make the six-week-program, and the one-day workshops, available to as many new writers as possible.

I attended Clarion West in 2009 and remain an ardent supporter of the organization and its mission!

Clarion West creates opportunities and community for speculative fiction writers and deserves the help. And the write a thon will help me achieve certain writing goals.

I’ve promoted Clarion West since 2011.
Go to my Write-a-thon page and press “Donate.”

Visit me at:

www.LesterDCrawford.com

Writing Goals for 2025’s Write-a-thon: Make progress on “The Dragon Universe Hope” (working title)

I value the work that Clarion West does — now more important than ever!

I’m a Clarion West 2016 alum. As a speculative fiction writer, the experience not only allowed me to grow creatively and professionally, but I also met lifelong friends who continue to inspire and amaze me to this day.

Clarion West is a fantastic organization, fostering the next generation of science fiction and fantasy writers with a focus on community and diversity. Now, more than ever, the world needs that.

My goal for this year’s write-a-thon is to add 6k words to my novella. Wish me luck!

And thank you for supporting Clarion West!

Every participant in the Write-a-thon is helping to support Clarion West’s programs for emerging and underrepresented writers year-round! You can make a donation on Mallika’s page and add a positive message. Keep checking back for updates to each writer’s fundraising page for more information about their current projects and progress toward their writing goals.

Fundraising to support my writing and word count this summer at Tin House and beyond!

Every participant in the Write-a-thon is helping to support Clarion West’s programs for emerging and underrepresented writers year-round! You can make a donation on Mark’s page and add a positive message. Keep checking back for updates to each writer’s fundraising page for more information about their current projects and progress toward their writing goals.