Workshops

Clarion West has announced that their next six-week workshop will be held virtually instead of in-person, and will run June 22-August 2, 2025. The new format is “designed to give students more time to write, additional lecture time with instructors, and more experimentation with workshopping models.” The instructors will be Maurice Broaddus, Malka Older, Diana Pho, and Martha Wells. Applications open on December 1, 2024 and close February 15, 2025. ...Read More

The Clarion West Summer Workshop has announced its 2025 instructors: Maurice Broaddus, Malka Older, Diana Pho, and Martha Wells.

The six-week summer workshop will be held virtually from June 22- August 2, 2025 (they alternate virtual and in-person years).

The workshop is moving forward “with a new format designed to give students more time to write, additional lecture time with instructors, and more experimentation with workshopping models.” Their “sneak peek” ...Read More

Clarion West has announced two new scholarships for 2024 students.

The Salam Award Scholarship, sponsored by The Salam Award, provides up to $1,000 for “a student of Pakistani origin, whether a Pakistani resident of any ethnicity, or a Pakistani-origin student anywhere in the world.”

The Malik Sharif-Fehmida Anwar Scholarship, sponsored by Clarion West instructor Usman T. Malik and his parents, is an annual scholarship providing up to $2,500 to fund ...Read More

The Clarion Workshop in San Diego has announced the instructors for its 2024 session: Matt Bell, Jeffrey Ford, Nalo Hopkinson, Sam J. Miller, Alyssa Wong, and Isabel Yap. Jac Jemc is faculty director.

The workshop will be held June 23, 2024 – August 3, 2024. Applications for the workshop open on December 1, 2023.

The Clarion West Summer Workshop previously announced its instructors and dates.

The Clarion West Summer Workshop has announced its 2024 instructors: Ruoxi Chen, Carmen Maria Machado, Usman T. Malik, Brenda Peynado, Sarah Pinsker, and Cadwell Turnbull. The six-week summer workshop will be held June 16 – July 27, 2024 in Seattle WA, with applications opening in December 2023. For more information, see the Clarion West website.

The Odyssey Writing Workshop has announced its online classes for 2024.

Barbara Ashford will teach “The Heart of the Matter: Bringing Emotional Resonance to Your Storytelling” from January 9 to February 6, 2024.

Gregory Ashe will teach “Writer’s Toolkit: Taking Your Story from Idea to Manuscript” from January 18 to February 15, 2024.

Jason Ridler will teach “Right Voice for the Right Story: Discover the Variety of Voices Inside You ...Read More

The annual Rainforest Resort Village writers retreat, hosted by Patrick Swenson and Fairwood Press, took place at Lake Quinault WA with three sessions: Feb 22-26, 2023; March 1-5, 2023; and March 8-12, 2023. For more, see their website.

This report and more like it in the May 2023 issue of Locus.

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The inaugural Salam Award Writers’ Work­shop was held March 5-11, 2023 at Lahore University of Management Sciences in La­hore, Pakistan. The workshop brought in 14 international writers, with instructors Eliza­beth Hand and Mary Anne Mohanraj, for daily workshops, evening panels, and tours of the city. Organizers say “this week-long residency was the first of its kind in the country.” Attendees included former winners and finalists of the Salam Award, given ...Read More

Clarion West announced a call for “an artist to create artwork for our 2023 summer programming!” The submission deadline is February 24, 2023 and compensation starts at $750, with the potential for increased payment “depending on experience.”

We want to commission a piece of art that inspires us and our writers to create and explore with bravery and freedom. The art needs to represent the genres of science fiction, fantasy, ...Read More

The Horror Writers Association‘s 2023 Horror University Online is currently open for registration for the next quarter (February, March, and April 2023). They are offering virtual workshops on a variety of topics for “horror writers everywhere interested in refining their writing, learning new skills and techniques, or perfecting their manuscript presentation.”

Live courses include:

• The Master Plotting Crash Course with John Skipp, February 6
• Decoding Screenwriting with L. Marie Wood,

The Odyssey Workshop has announced the “Space Cowboy Books Working Class Writers Scholarship”:

Funded by the award-winning Space Cowboy Books, which has the mission to spread the love of science fiction, literature, literacy, and print media, the Space Cow­boy Books Working Class Writers Scholar­ship is offered to provide financial support for a working-class or impoverished writer to attend Your Personal Odyssey. To be considered for this scholarship, you must complete ...Read More

The Odyssey Writing Workshop has transitioned away from its old in-person, six-week workshop model, continuing the online approach that began in during the pandemic: Your Personal Odyssey Workshop.

Director Jeanne Cavelos explains,

Holding Odyssey online in 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemic revealed to me that a huge number of talented writers want an in-depth, challenging program to build their skills but can’t attend a six-week, in-person workshop. More ...Read More

The Clarion West Writers Workshop in Seattle WA is looking for new facilities:

Clarion West has a long history of partnering with universities and organizations in the Seattle area to house the Six-Week Workshop. As we’ve honed in on what our students need for their workshop experience and focused on affordability, equity, and accessibility, the number of potential partners has narrowed. Even before the pandemic, we couldn’t secure a long-term ...Read More

The Odyssey Writing Workshop has announced the instructors for its online classes in 2023.

Gregory Ashe will teach “Angled Dialogue: Crafting Authentic-Sounding Dialogue to Convey Information, Escalate Conflict, and Advance Character-Driven Stories” from January 5 – February 2, 2023.

Barbara Ashford will teach “One Brick at a Time: Crafting Compelling Scenes” from January 3-31, 2023.

Scott H. Andrews will teach “Emotional Truth: Making Character Emotions Real, Powerful, and Immediate to ...Read More

The Alpha Workshop for Young Writers was held on the campus of University of Pittsburgh-Greensburg from July 20-31, 2022.

The 2022 Clarion Workshop took place on June 19 – July 30, 2022, on the University of California at San Diego campus.

This report and more like it in the September 2022 issue of Locus.

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The Clarion West Summer Workshop has announced its 2023 instructors: Samit Basu, N.K. Jemisin, Karen Lord, Mary Anne Mohanraj & Benjamin Rosenbaum, Cat Rambo, and Arley Sorg. The six-week summer workshop will be held June 25 – August 5, 2023 in Seattle WA, with applications opening in December 2022. For more information, see the Clarion West website.

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