Clarion West Writers' Workshop

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The Clarion West Writers' Workshop is a prestigious, annual six-week course for aspiring professional writers in the fields of science fiction and fantasy literature . It was first held in 1971 and is committed to the principles of the older Clarion Science Fiction Writers' Workshop , without being organizationally linked to it. The first Clarion West was initiated by Vonda N. McIntyre, herself a Clarion Workshop graduate . After a hiatus from 1974 to 1983, Clarion West was revitalized by JT Stewart and Marilyn J. Holt in 1984 and has since taken place regularly in summer near Seattle University .

The course lasts six weeks and is limited to 18 participants. Due to the limited number of participants, the selection process, the reputation of the lecturers, who are often highly respected in the genre, and above all due to the fact that a considerable number of the participants in the previous workshops have now become recognized authors, participation in a Clarion workshop already gives a certain degree Prestige and is also regularly mentioned on participants' résumés.

The 18 participants face six lecturers, with each lecturer taking on one week of the course. Participation is based on a fee-based application, which includes a manuscript of 20 to 30 standard pages to be submitted .

The sponsor has been a non-profit organization since 1986, which in addition to the workshops also organizes readings and other events in the context of the workshop.

In 2020 the workshop did not take place due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Participants and lecturers

The previous participants and lecturers at Clarion West were:

year Attendees Lecturers

1971

Susan Rubinyi Anderson, Scott Bradford, FM Busby , Lin Nielsen Cochran, Stephen Compton, Larry A. Frost, Donald A. Glover, Philip Haldeman, Brian Hargus, Gustav Hasford , Dean Hodgson, Susan Lucum, James Patrick Muir, Maggie Nadler, Brad R. Reddersen, William Leslie Semple, JT Stewart, Bruce Taylor, David Williams, Ilze Zigurs

George Clayton Johnson , Harlan Ellison , Joanna Russ , Samuel R. Delany , Ursula K. Le Guin

1972

Susan Rubinyi Anderson, Mildred Downey Broxon , FM Busby , Steve Carper, Bruce Allen Collins, Arthur Byron Cover , Scott Edelstein, Larry A. Frost, Philip Haldeman, Stephen L. Hust, Mary M. Johnson, Richard C. Newsome, Julian Reid , Neil M. Ruttenberg, Robert M. Sabella, John Shirley , Gene Van Troyer, Lisa Tuttle , Herb Williams, David Wise

Avram Davidson , Frank Herbert , Harlan Ellison , Robert Silverberg , Terry Carr , Ursula K. Le Guin

1973

Margot Adler , Russell Bates, Glen Chang, Lin Nielsen Cochran, Gustav Hasford , Dawn Johanson, Doug Kinnaird, Joe Manfredini, Steve Miller, Dvora Olmstead, Richard J. Petrowich, Susan Purviance, Lucinda J. Seaman, Mark Sherman, John Walters, David White, David Wise

Harlan Ellison , James Sallis , Joanna Russ , Peter S. Beagle , Terry Carr , Ursula K. Le Guin

1984

Richard Clement, Greg Cox, Kathryn E. Cramer, Kenneth Crawford, Donna Davis Rysdyk, Bruce Chandler Fergusson, Michael Gilbert, Linda Jordan, Kay Kinghammer, Dan O'Keefe, Cara Inks Reed, Jeremy Robkin, Rhea E. Rose, Carol Severance , Amy Thomson , Jill Zeller, Diane Zimmerman

Arthur Byron Cover , David Hartwell , Norman Spinrad , Suzy McKee Charnas , Terry Carr , Vonda N. McIntyre

1985

Betsy Allbright, Gerri Balter, Luella Burrows, Elmer Eells, Pamela K. Hicks, Les Howle, Christopher Kadoshima, Kevin Kerr, Steve Martin, Claudia O'Keefe, Susan Palwick, Alan Roberts, Richard Singer, Scott Stolnack, Slattery Tyler, Jeff Williams, Shirley Winston, N. Lee Wood

Arthur Byron Cover , Chelsea Quinn Yarbro , Marta Randall , Norman Spinrad , Octavia E. Butler , Samuel R. Delany

1986

Virginia Allen, Janet Bellwether, Steven Bryan Bieler, David E. Cortesi, Alissa Johnson, Mark Manning, Nancy Thalia Reynolds, Michael Scanlon, Patrick J. Swenson

David Hartwell , Edward Bryant , Joan D. Vinge , Norman Spinrad , Patricia McKillip , Suzy McKee Charnas

1987

Kathleen Alcalá, Karen Allendoerfer, Colleen Anderson, Dan Bennett, Laura Brenner, Michael Croteau, Kathryn Drennan, Ron Drummond, Kij Johnson , Shirley Johnston, Susan Kray, Dave Myers, Hillary Rettig, Clélie Rich, David Sandner, Dean Shomshak, Michael Stearns , Richard Terra, Kit Townsend, Dick Trtek, Gordon Van Gelder, Janet Elliott Waters

Connie Willis , Edward Bryant , Octavia E. Butler , Samuel R. Delany , Tappan King , Ursula K. Le Guin

1988

James Bartow, Charié Craig, Mike Crosson, Gregg Fackler, John Gibbons, Kathleen Ann Goonan , Diane Hall, Eric Harpell, Phoebe Harris, Jane Hawkins, Jon Inouye, Diane Mapes, Henry Millstein, Michaelene S. Pendleton, Constance Roe, Mary Rosenblum , William M. Shockley, Beverly Suarez-Beard, Sage Walker, Deborah Wessell, Chris Willrich

Elizabeth A. Lynn , Gardner Dozois , Greg Bear , Joan D. Vinge , Orson Scott Card , Peter S. Beagle

1989

Mary Bachran, Jennifer W. Bellack, Adam Bridge, Daren Bush, Diana M. Castro, David M. Charles, Wendy Counsil, Tony Daniel, Diane K. Dieter, Carol Dorf, Janice M. Eisen, K. Emil Erickson, James Alan Gardner , Carolyn Ives Gilman, Guy Hail, Darrell Kastin, Konstantine Kyriacopoulos, Byron LaDue, Paul MacRae, Kevin Mims, Jodi Kimbell Scanlon

Amy Stout , Connie Willis , Karen Joy Fowler , Lucius Shepard , Orson Scott Card , Roger Zelazny

1990

Tavis Allison, Marcella Belton, Michael Scott Bricker, Arinn Dembo, Robert Devereaux, Susan Grossman, Paul Grunwell, Paul Helweg, Christine Henderson, David Herter, Sally Kohonoski, Clinton Lawrence, David Lewis, Rebecca V. Neason, Carol Nussbaum, Steve O 'Hara, Brooks Peck, Leonard Rysdyk, Blaise Selby, S. Lee Singer

David Hartwell , Gene Wolfe , Karen Joy Fowler , Lewis Shiner , Pat Murphy , Vonda N. McIntyre

1991

Dilip Agarwal, David Boone, Sari Boren, Martin Cirulis, Mark Coen, David Duck Coupe, Shelby Goerlitz, PJ Groeneveldt, Chris Hall, Amy Axt Hanson, Jed Hartman, Connie Hirsch, Marilyn Husted, Karen Jensen, Pat Kava, Myrna Ougland, Kitty Perry, Lawrence Schimel, Terri Trimble, Bill Tuttle

Ellen Datlow , Emma Bull , George Alec Effinger , Lisa Tuttle , Lucius Shepard , Samuel R. Delany , Will Shetterly

1992

Vincent G. Bonasso, Gene Bostwick, Mark Bourne, Lee Capps, Robert D. Carroll, Danny Daniels, Richard Garfinkle, Andrew P. Hooper, Sonia Orin Lyris, Alexandra MacKenzie, Tom Marcinko, Daniel Marcus, David Marusek, Holly Wade Matter, Todd Johnson McCaffrey, Kate Schaefer, Nisi Shawl , Jim Snowden, Cynthia Ward, Amy Wolf

Gardner Dozois , Howard Waldrop , John Crowley , John Shirley , Nancy Kress , Pat Cadigan

1993

Mark T. Adams, Robert Boyczuk, Candyce Byrne, Mark Corliss, Robert Dennis, Patrizia DiLucchio, Anthony Dollar, Ian Hagemann, Morgan Hua, Cid Hughes, Louise Marley, Marybeth H. O'Halloran, Jean Oldham, Caroline D. Rhodes, Sande Simpson, Will Swagel, W. Bradford Swift, David G. Taylor, Ben Trumble, Robert Vamosi

Alice Turner , Connie Willis , Geoff Ryman , Greg Bear , Lucius Shepard , Pat Murphy

1994

Paul T. Allen, Renée Awana, Michael P. Belfiore, Öjvind Bernander, Ellen T. Brenner, Mike Brotherton, Pedro M. Domingos, Andy Duncan , Bronwynn Elko, MW Keiper, Pamela Marks, Syne Mitchell, Eric S. Nylund , Jay O'Connell, Carol D. Pinchefsky, Melissa Lee Shaw, Byron Tetrick, Ray West, Kelly Winters, Robert Wojtasiewicz

Beth A. Meacham , Elizabeth Hand , Joe Haldeman , Lisa Goldstein , Michael Swanwick , Nancy Kress , Tappan King

1995

David Cowper, Alyx Dellamonica, Glenn Hackney, Joseph P. Haines, Zeke Kamm, Fiona Kelleghan, Doug Lain, Timalyne Lindquist-Frazier, Shirley W. Mercer, Donald Moore, Joseph Murphy, Robert Murphy, Jr., Robert Nansel, Marcus Nordenstam , Donna Palomaki, Kristi Pierce, Miguel Ramos, Jessica Reisman, Jane Shiau, Ron Wodaski

Howard Waldrop , Joan D. Vinge , John Crowley , Katherine Dunn , Michael Swanwick , Gardner Dozois

1996

Brett Baker, Jeremy Bloom, Lyman Caswell, Kenneth Crawford, Christopher Doyle, Craig Gidney, Neile Graham, Robert Guffey, Eric Johnson, Bryn Kanar, Judy McCrosky, Elizabeth McDowell, Michael Meltzer, Richard Poss, Justina Robson , Kurtis Roth, Christopher Rowe , John Serna, Anson Smith, Rich Warren

Ellen Datlow , Geoff Ryman , Jack Womack , Pat Cadigan , Rachel Pollack , Terry Bisson

1997

Bill Burkett, Jr., Leah Cutter, Clayton B. Evans, Rob Furey, John Gerner, Susan Jett, Bob Kruger, Alexander Lamb, Katherine Major, Mary Anne Mohanraj, Nancy Jane Moore, Barbara Pfeffer Billauer, Therese Pieczynski, Naomi Gayle Rivkis , CJ Silverio, Richard Wadholm, Robert Wexler

Beth A. Meacham , Lucius Shepard , Michael Bishop , Nicola Griffith , Samuel R. Delany , Suzy McKee Charnas , Tappan King

1998

Daniel J. Abraham, Michael Bateman, RS Blum, Karen M. Cupp, Jeffrey A. Deveaux, Ellen Levy Finch, Karen D. Fishler, Christyna Ivers, Burke T. Kealey, Ruth Nestvold, John Olsen, Diana Rowland, Chiara Shah, Susan Lee, Tamela Viglione, David Wellington , Eric M. Witchey

Carol Emshwiller , Connie Willis , Gardner Dozois , George RR Martin , Lucy Sussex , Paul Park

1999

Sarah Brandel, Christine Castigliano, Duncan Clark, Sanford L. Clarke, Monte Cook, Daniel G. Dick, Andrea Hairston, Jay Lee Joslin, Leah Kaufman, Margo Lanagan , Ama B. Patterson, Elizabeth S. Roberts, Joe Sutliff Sanders, Tom Sweeney, Sheree Renee Thomas, Trent Walters, Stephen Woodworth

Gordon Van Gelder , Greg Bear , Gwyneth Jones , Howard Waldrop , Nancy Kress , Octavia E. Butler

2000

Alexander C. Austin, Greg Beatty, Julian Brown, Albert L. Folsom, Kameron Hurley , Miriam Hurst, David D. Levine , William Mingin, Francesca Myman, Paulette Rousselle, Inez Schaechterle, Andrew T. Scott, AE Silas, David R. Silas, Amy Sisson, G. Patrick Weekes, Jennifer Whitson

Candas Jane Dorsey , Carol Emshwiller , David Hartwell , Geoff Ryman , John Crowley , Pat Murphy , Paul Park

2001

Karen Abrahamson, Michael Barry, Avi Bar-Ze'ev, Stephanie Burgis, Linda De Meulemeester, Susan Ee, Raymund Eich, Ari Goelman, Kiini Ibura, Carla J. Johnson, Sean Klein, Samantha Ling Liu, Emily Mah Tippetts, Benjamin Rosenbaum , Allan Rousselle, Patrick Samphire, Ibi Aanu Zoboi

Brad Denton , Connie Willis , Ellen Datlow , Jack Womack , Nalo Hopkinson , Octavia E. Butler

2002

Lynette Aspey, Robert Brown, Dario Ciriello, James Wallace Harris, L. Jackson, Adrian Khactu, Simran Khalsa, Daniel Llinas, Traci L. Morganfield, Elizabeth Nice, Christopher Pommier, Wendy Schaffer, Doug Sharp, Diana Sherman, James P. Thomas , Ysabeau S. Wilce, Genevieve Williams

Gardner Dozois , Joe Haldeman , John Crowley , Kathleen Alcalá , Pat Cadigan , Paul Park

2003

Carl Allery, K. Tempest Bradford, Wendy Bradley, Anna Feruglio Dal Dan, Michael Henderson, Anthony Jacob Hensley, Alexander H. Jennings, Robin Jensen, Claire Light, Gabriel Morgan, Claudius Reich, Carl Sieber, Marsha Sisolak, Bob Sojka, Daniel Starr, Eliani Torres, Jeffrey Weitzel

China Miéville , Elizabeth Hand , Kathleen Ann Goonan , Nancy Kress , Patrick Nielsen Hayden , Samuel R. Delany

2004

RR Angell, Jesse Buerk, Brian Conn, Alec Deason, Adele Gardner, Ajit A. George, Vylar Kaftan, Alice Kim, April Lott, Darja Malcolm-Clarke, Meghan McCarron, Anil Menon, Ernest Reimer, D. Smith, Jeff Spock, Deb Taber, Greer Woodward

Charles de Lint , Geoff Ryman , James Patrick Kelly , John Kessel , Kelly Link , Larissa Lai , Pat Murphy

2005

S. Hutson Blount, Ada Milenkovic Brown, Mischa DeNola, Kristine Dikeman, Amy Eastment, Kira Franz, Chris Furst, Stephen Gold, Ann Leckie , Heather Lindsley, Edo Mor, EC Myers, Cat Rambo , Karen M. Roberts, Rashida J. Smith, Katie Sparrow, Rachel Swirsky, James Trimarco

Andy Duncan , Connie Willis , Gordon Van Gelder , L. Timmel Duchamp , Michael Swanwick , Octavia E. Butler

2006

Mark Bukovec, Ben Burgis, Tina Connolly , Tristan Davenport, Rebecca Gold, Nicole Gresham, Guy Immega, Julie McGalliard, Maura McHugh, Ian McHugh, Meghan Sinoff, Nancy Nivling, Shawn Scarber, Gord Sellar, David A. Simons, James Trombetta, Tinatsu Wallace, Caroline Yoachim

Maureen F. McHugh , Ellen Datlow , Ian MacLeod , Nalo Hopkinson , Paul Park , Vernor Vinge

2007

Cassie Alexander, Jon Allison, Christopher Caldwell, Roz Clarke, Benjamin Crowell, Gary Dauphin, Carrie Devall, Jocelyn Paige Kelly, Amy Lau, Dominica Phetteplace, Sharon K. Richards, Stacy Sinclair, Melinda Thielbar, Michael R. Underwood, Lilah Wild, David J. Williams, David Zasloff, Derek Zumsteg

Graham Joyce , Kelley Eskridge , Larissa Lai , Nancy Kress , Patrick Nielsen Hayden , Samuel R. Delany

2008

Pritpaul Bains, Marguerite Croft, Theresa DeLucci, Caren Gussoff, Tracy J. Harford, Shane Hoversten, Kristin Janz, Rajan Khanna, Douglas Lucas, Carlton Mellick III , An Owomoyela, Pamela Rentz, Christopher Reynaga, Eden Robins, Carol Ryles, Owen Salisbury , Jim Stewart, Kira Walsh

Chuck Palahniuk , Connie Willis , Cory Doctorow , Mary Rosenblum , Paul Park , Sheree Renee Thomas

2009

Siobhan Carroll, Steven A. Ellmore, Katrina S. Forest, Randy Henderson, Lucas Johnson, Jordan Lapp, Rochita Loenen-Ruiz, Kris Millering, DJ Muir, Nate Parkes, Isis Persephone D'Shaun, Tom Rodgers, Vicki Saunders, JM Sidorova , Emily C. Skaftun, William Vandemark, Joel Walsh, D. Elizabeth Wasden

David Hartwell , Elizabeth Bear , John Kessel , Karen Joy Fowler , Nalo Hopkinson , Rudy Rucker

2010

Michael Alexander, Frank Ard, KC Ball, Stephanie Denise Brown, Adam Brymora, Abbey Chung, Cassandra Rose Clarke, Lauren Dixon, Jack Graham, Jude-Marie Green, Tod McCoy, Remy Nakamura, Sandra M. Odell, Erik Owomoyela, Nick Pidgeon , Andrew Romine, Stephanie Louise Scudder, Tracie Welser

Michael Bishop , Maureen F. McHugh , Nnedi Okorafor , Graham Joyce , Ellen Datlow , Ian McDonald

2011

Alisa Alering, Alex Bear, John Coyne, Corinne Duyvis, Erik David Even, S. Gilbow, Eliza Hirsch, Catherine Krahe, Jei D. Marcade, Jenni Moody, Jack Nicholls, Mark Pantoja, David Rees-Thomas, Maria Romasco-Moore, Jeremy Sim, Anne Toole, Nicholas Tramdack, Alberto Yáñez

L. Timmel Duchamp , Margo Lanagan , Nancy Kress , Charles Stross , Minister Faust , Paul Park

2012

Brenta Blevins, Bryan Camp, Indrapramit Das, Sarah Dodd, M. Huw Evans, Greg Friis West, Laura Friis West, James G. Harper, Alyc Helms, James Herndon, Nicholas Houser, Georgina Kamsika, Henry Lien, Helen Marshall, Kim Neville , Cory Skerry, Carlie St. George, Blythe Woolston

Kelly Link , Connie Willis , George RR Martin , Chuck Palahniuk , Mary Rosenblum , Gavin J. Grant , Stephen Graham Jones

2013

Helena Bell, John Costello, Geetanjali Dighe, David Edison, Fabio Fernandes, Jennifer Giesbrecht, Vince Haig, Nicole Idar, Alex Kane, Nick Lancaster, Usman Malik, Liam Meilleur, Shannon Peavey, Kelly Sandoval, Allison Solano, Hugo Xiong, JY Yang , E. Lily Yu

Samuel R. Delany , Joe Hill , Margo Lanagan , Ellen Datlow , Neil Gaiman , Elizabeth Hand

2014

Adanze Asante, Alexander Berman, Christopher Carlson, Curtis C. Chen, Shannon Fay, Christy Johnson, Rich Larson, Michael Matheson, Ian Muneshwar, Chinelo Onwualu, Sandra Monica Martins Reis Pinto, Rhiannon Rasmussen-Silverstein, Steven Rickards, Michael Smith, Jae Steinbacher, Yang-Yang Wang, Marlee Jane Ward, Alison Wilgus

Kij Johnson , John Crowley , Ian McDonald , Charlie Jane Anders , Paul Park , Hiromi Goto

2015

Rebecca Campbell, Garret Johnston, Justin C. Key, Margaret Killjoy, Samuel Kolawole, Thersa Matsuura, Monidipa “Mimi” Mondal, Tegan Moore, Nana, Christine Neulieb, Laurie Penny , Evan J. Peterson, Dinesh Pulandram, Michael Sebastian, Nibedita Sen , Jake Stone, Leo Vladimirsky, Julia M. Wetherell

Andy Duncan , Eileen Gunn , Tobias Buckell , Connie Willis , Nalo Hopkinson , Cory Doctorow

2016

Taimur Ahmad, Betsy Aoki, Elizabeth Bartmess, T. Jane Berry, Octavia Cade, Paul DesCombaz, Alex Filipowicz, Lora Gray, CA Hawksmoor, Jon Lasser, S. Qiouyi Lu, Gunnar Norskog, Emma Osborne, Shiv Ramdas, Mitchell Shanklin, Jessica Silbaugh-Cowdin, Gabriel Teodros, Cadwell Turnbull

Paul Park , Stephen Graham Jones , Elizabeth Bear , NK Jemisin , Sheila Williams , Geoff Ryman

2017

Shweta Adhyam, EL Bangs, David Bruns, Andrea Chapela, Mark Galarrita, AT Greenblatt, Iori Kusano, Patrick Lofgren, Alexandra Manglis, Robert Minto, Stephanie Malia Morris, Andrea M. Pawley, Joanne Lim-Pousard, Vina Jie-Min Prasad, Adam Shannon, Emma Törzs, Izzy Wasserstein, Gordon White

Daryl Gregory , Kij Johnson , John Chu , Connie Willis , Daniel José Older , Pat Cadigan

2018

EC Barrett, Carson Beker, Rachel Broderick, NC Calder, Isabel Cañas, Woody Dismukes, Clay P. Greene, Dora Klindžić, Wen Ma, Ted Mahsun, Rodrigo Assis Mesquita, Brittany Pladek, Gregory Scheckler, Jen Sexton-Riley, Rachel Simmons, Dennis E. Staples, Natalia Theodoridou

Daniel Abraham , Ken MacLeod , Yoon Ha Lee , Karen Lord , Karen Joy Fowler , Ellen Datlow

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Clarion West - How to Apply , accessed November 29, 2018.
  2. Clarion West - About Us , accessed November 29, 2018.
  3. Clarion West Won't Be Held in 2020 , message on file 770 of April 26, 2020, accessed on April 27, 2020.
  4. ^ Clarion West Alumni List , accessed November 29. 2018.