Announcing the 2011 Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop @ UC San Diego June 26 to August 6, 2011 Clarion is widely recognized as a premier training ground for aspiring writers of fantasy and science fiction short stories. The 2011 writers in residence are Nina Kiriki Hoffman John Scalzi Elizabeth Bear David Anthony Durham [...]
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Clarion 2011 taking Applications: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing Workshop 1 comment
Clarion Write-A-Thon: Helping Writers Reach their Dreams Leave a comment
I signed up for the Clarion Write-A-Thon, a fundraiser that puts a whole bunch of writers into a sensory deprivation tank while they write for six weeks. Oh wait, there’s no sensory deprivation tank…. But still, the writers are joining together to keep Clarion San Diego alive and well for years to [...]
Clarion San Diego accepting applications till March 1st Leave a comment
If you want to write science fiction and fantasy there is no better crucible and proving ground, classroom and community, than Clarion San Diego. I have already written a whole page on it, and updated the writers for 2010. It looks to be awesome. You have about six weeks to turn in applications to go. [...]
Clarion 2009 open for submission Jan 2-Mar 1 Leave a comment
Announcing the 2009 Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop @ UC San Diego June 28 to August 8, 2009 The Clarion Workshop is widely recognized as the premier training ground for aspiring writers of fantasy and science fiction short stories. Many graduates have become well-known writers, and a large number have won major awards. [...]
When Writers Come Together 1 comment
Perhaps it was my nostalgia for Clarion, or maybe it was the weekend I had in Calgary that all the science fiction writers had their weekend of writing. All I know is that for two and a half hours, our group wrote. We set up in the library and worked on our laptops and I [...]
Nostalgia, thy name is Clarion 5 comments
It was this time last year when I had the greatest experience of my science fiction writing life. I’m talking Clarion’s Science Fiction and Fantasy Workshop, held in San Diego (really La Jolla) at UCSD (2007). I was in the middle of a move out of the country—a summer I had little money to spare–but [...]
