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.

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 Alexa’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 Amanda’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 Aniko’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I am finishing up the novella and 3 unpublished short stories for my Tower of the Rosewater Goblet collection of (mostly published) short stories, novelettes and the novella.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 Anna’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 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.

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 Beth’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 C. W. 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!

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 C. A.’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.

Will write movie reviews for donations! $25 donations for 300-750 word reviews, to be specific, but anything you can donate is amazing and appreciated.

Clarion West is a unique experience. It helped me become a much stronger writer and editor, though I use those skills outside S. F. F. 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.”

It’s now been 11 years since I attended Clarion West, and it is not an understatement to say that it changed my life. Let’s keep this good ship afloat and change some more lives for the better!

I’m hoping to raise money to train the next generation of speculative fiction 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 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 attended the Clarion West writer’s workshop in 1996 and it was the most powerful writing workshop I had ever attended, focused on the craft of science fiction and fantasy and storytelling in general. I highly recommend this program for other writers and think this program is worth supporting.

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 have been inspired by the Asian genre of “healing fiction” and I want to teach myself to write a story with emotional healing of the audience as my explicit mission.

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.

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 Gabriela’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 currently working on completing a first draft of my dark fantasy novella that I started at Under the Volcano earlier this year. I’m getting close! Once this is complete, I will keep pushing forward on the first draft of my speculative novel The Godspore King.

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!

Writing about the future requires imagining the future, and imagining positive futures is one of the most powerful acts of hope, courage, and resistance we can have. I hope that by fundraising for other writers and by writing about the future myself, I can welcome more people to imagine and then build positive futures.

Proud C. W. ‘12 alum. C. W. put me on the track into my best possible multiverse. I’m living my dream life now because of C. W.

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 Holly’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 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.

I’m a Clarion West alum and the workshop manager for the organization! I got started a little late here, but I’m creating a profile where folks can pledge their support. I’m focusing my writing goals towards August, since my hands are so full with the summer workshop. But I’ve got a lot of projects to work on as soon as I have more time for them!

Without Clarion West, I’m not sure I’d consider myself a writer. I started taking the online workshops and fell back in love with storytelling — something I consider culturally enriching as an Indigenous person, as well as deeply important for my mental health.

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 Jasper’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 is the BEST!

Clarion West is an excellent organization that grows speculative fiction writers from around the world, and provides great events in the Seattle area and online. I want to help Clarion West continue to achieve their goals!

I will be working towards two goals: finishing a revision of a full length play, and writing a new draft of a story.

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.

There are others out there working on finding their voice and scribbling stories while also making their lives work, much like me. I work a day job because my writing, as awesome as it is doesn’t support me financially. Places like Clarion West help people like me to get education and find community in an affordable way.

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.

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 Julie’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.

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 Katy’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 is an awesome and supportive resource for the speculative writing community and I’m excited to participate in the fundraiser!

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 Ken’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.

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 Kimberly’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 local author, writer, poet, model and teacher in the Tampa Bay area. I carry with me a passion for the pen.

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 Kyle’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 gave me the opportunity to expand my writing horizons and meet so many inspiring writers and new friends. I want to give back to this amazing community!

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 want to support the writers who attend Clarion.

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

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!

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 Mahalia’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 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!

I have been a lifelong reader. I have published three thriller novels, several S. F. and crime stories, and poetry. J. T. Stewart and I started Clarion West (1982-1984) which was based on the Clarion West started by Vonda N. McIntyre (1970-1973) Vonda helped with wisdom and wine. I write most every day, and like most all C. W. students and graduates, and work to have my work published. I look forward to helping C. W. be the best and most significant writing workshop in the world.

For this Write-a-thon, I pledge to write a chapter per week for my current novel. I am currently at 41/64 planned chapters!

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.