Clarion West Writers Workshop is an intensive six-week program
for writers preparing for professional careers in science fiction and fantasy. It runs yearly late June through the end of July.
The workshop is limited to 18 students per year. Each of the six weeks is instructed by a different professional writer or editor.
The roster of guest instructors changes yearly. Founded in Seattle, Washington in 1971, the workshop has been held continuously since 1984.
Clarion West celebrated its 25th anniversary of continuous instruction in 2008.
Class of 2008
Pritpaul Bains
Marguerite Croft
The Moon Falls into the Bay forthcoming in Flushed
The Wood and the Brass in Thou Shalt Not...
Into the Woods in Say... what's the combination?
Theresa DeLucci
Caren Gussoff
Pretty Maids All In A Row in Ergosphere (MBrane #12).
Games Destination: Future (2010) edited by Eric T. Reynolds and Z.S Adani.
Correspondence online at Birkensnake.
As They Get Warmer, They Give a Little in MBrane SF #5 reviewed in Tangent.
Find a complete list of Caren's publications at her website.
Tracy J. Harford
Shane Hoversten
Kristin Janz
The Shoemaker's Daughter in Mystic Signals free download. Also available in print from Amazon.
Sons of God, Daughters of Men in Strange, Weird and Wonderful. (Spring 2011)
Woman Moving to the Country in Prairie Fire. (Winter 2010-2011)
The Observation Deck in On Spec, January 2012.
The Year of the Bear in Allegory (Volume 11/38, Winter 2010)
Veritas Nos Liberabit in Futurismic.
Looking-Glass Milk in Crystal Codices, November 2009
Find more information on Kristin's stories at her website.
Rajan Khanna
Holes in Abyss & Apex, July, 2011.
Card Sharp in the Way of the Wizard Anthology, Prime Books, November 2010. Also available on Podcastle
Pumpkinhead in Shadows of the Emerald City from Northern Frights Publishing.
The Furies is currently available at Shimmer Magazine.
Find a complete list of Raj's publications at his website.
Douglas Lucas
Learn more about Douglas' fiction here and nonfiction here.
Carlton Mellick III
Space Cougar co-written with numerous other authors forthcoming in The Magazine of Bizarro Fiction.
Find a complete list of Carlton's publications at his website.
An Owomoyela
The Relative Densities of Seawater and Blood in Brain Harvest, 2012.
Water Rights in Edge of Infinity, Jonathan Strahan, ed. 2012
Frozen Voice in Clarkesworld Magazine, July 2011.
Portage, Apex Magazine
Abandonware in Fantasy Magazine. Reprinted in Year's Best Science Fiction (Prime Books, 2011)
Pamela Rentz
The Last Willow Stick on the River in Yellow Medicine Review, Spring 2012.
Lottie versus the Moon Hopper in Future Lovecraft (Innsmouth Free Press, Dec 2011).
Christopher Reynaga
Space Cougar co-written with numerous other authors forthcoming in The Magazine of Bizarro Fiction.
Say Goodbye to the Little Girl Tree forthcoming in the anthology Up Jumped the Devil! edited by Kyle Johnson and Doug Warwick.
A Million Miles from Graceland forthcoming in Cemetery Dance.
Find a complete list of Christopher's publications at his website.
Eden Robins
Carol Ryles
Saint Olivia's Light, in Winds of Change ed Elizabeth Fitzgerald (CSFG Publications, 2011).
The Tide co-written with Martin Livings et al, in Dead Red Heart ed Russell B Farr (Ticonderoga Publications, 2011.)
Snake Charmer in the anthology More Scary Kisses, ed Liz Grzyb (Ticonderoga Publications, April 2011.) Also available as an ebook from Amazon.
Deeper Than Flesh and Closer in the anthology Belong edited by Russell B. Farr (Ticonderoga Publications, April 2010.)
Owen Salisbury
Jim Stewart
Kira Walsh
