We have just a slightly altered student roster for the incoming Clarion class of 2026! Congrats again to all, and we can't wait to see you here in sunny San Diego in just a few weeks!

@clarionucsd.bsky.social in 2012. I had just finished undergrad and spent the previous four years getting dragged for writing spec fic. I was exhausted, embarrassed to write what I loved, and didn't have a writing community. I would have quit writing within the year.

Today's @clarionucsd.bsky.social newsletter reminds me if I'd attended a year earlier I'd have critiqued with Pat Murphy, and a year later with Mario Milosevic and Lucius Shepard. Ah, serendipity! It also reminds me to once again remind you about my new collection. pspublishing.co.uk/101-things-t...

I attended @clarionucsd.bsky.social with the support of a few organizations. Did you know the likelihood of acceptance to an MFA program is higher than acceptance to Clarion.

As everyone who has attended knows, Clarion is a transformative, once-in-a-lifetime experience. It can also be a prohibitively expensive one for some. If you're able, maybe you could help out aegor, one of our 2026 attendees, on their journey!

As another summer approaches here in sunny San Diego, we're thrilled to announce the 2026 Class of the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop!!! 🚀👽🦄

We are absolutely thrilled to announce the 2026 Clarion Workshop instructor line-up!! Applications open on Dec. 1st, so spread the word and mark your calendars. It's going to be another stellar summer here in San Diego.

@Clarion alum @larazontally.bsky.social has teamed up with @clarionwest.bsky.social alum @huwevansart.bsky.social (and others) to found Homeward Books, a new small press! Support their Kickstarter campaign today! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hom...

Earlier, we teased an exciting upcoming summer prize, and we can now reveal a rare opportunity for a Tuckerization by the renowned Karen Joy Fowler! Bidding on naming rights starts at $1,000, and the auction runs from now until August 24! Learn more at www.clarionwriteathon.com/prizes/auction.php

A huge applause for all our Write-a-thon participants and donors! You raised over $10,000! Your help means so much to us and is invaluable for supporting the Clarion Workshop and its students through scholarships. We are so grateful for your generosity, and sending you all a big thank you! 🚀✨

Meet our 2025 Clarion Writers’ Workshop graduates! They’re pictured with their instructors, @jedediahberry.com and GennaRose Nethercott, who led the final two weeks. It has been an unforgettable summer, and we’re so proud to call this class Clarion alumni!

It’s the final day of the Write-a-thon, and your support means so much to us! We’re close to surpassing $10,000 raised! So we’re cheering on our participants as they finish up on their goals! Spread the word, and consider donating today to support the Clarion Workshop. 🚀✨ clarionwriteathon.org

We’re in the final week of the Write-a-thon and reaching for our $15,000 goal! Currently, we are very close to reaching the $8000 mark! So as part of our final week push, we'll soon be announcing an exciting incentive with the acclaimed Karen Joy Fowler! Stay tuned! ✨ clarionwriteathon.com

Thank you to all of our participants and donors! We are so close to surpassing $7000 raised! It’s the final week of the Write-a-thon, and we’re pushing to reach our $15,000 goal. You can help Clarion by spreading the word, donating or sponsoring a participant! 🚀✨ clarionwriteathon.com

Our Write-a-thon participants are doing a fantastic job working toward their goals! There's still time to sign up, donate or sponsor a participant. So spread the word! Support the Clarion Workshop in reaching the $15,000 goal 🚀✨ clarionwriteathon.com

Over $5000 has been raised! Thank you for supporting Clarion! We’re pushing to reach our $15,000 goal, and have great prizes, including having your name immortalized in the work of Kim Stanley Robinson! Join the Write-a-thon, donate or sponsor a participant 🚀✨ clarionwriteathon.com

A big thank you to our Write-a-thon participants working toward their goals! For our participants, we have some great swag to offer and a story critique from the best-selling author, Karen Joy Fowler! There’s still plenty of time to join, donate or sponsor a participant! 🚀✨ clarionwriteathon.com

Such a brilliant group we’re getting to work with here at Clarion. (We usually keep them stowed behind this door.)

Our fantastic instructors, @jedediahberry.com ‬and GennaRose Nethercott, are leading weeks 5 & 6 of the Clarion Writers’ Workshop! You can also meet ‪them in-store at @mystgalaxybooks.bsky.social ‬for their readings tomorrow at 7:00 PM PT! If you’re in San Diego, come by and say hi! ✨

Thank you to our wonderful donors! We have surpassed $4000! There’s still plenty of time to sign up for the Write-a-thon, donate or sponsor a participant. We also have great prizes for our participants and donors! Spread the word! Support the Clarion Workshop 🚀✨ clarionwriteathon.com

Over $3000 has been raised! A huge thank you to all our donors! We still have a way to go to reach our $15,000 goal. Consider signing up for the Write-a-thon, donating or sponsoring one of our brilliant participants. Spread the word, and support the Clarion Workshop!🚀✨ clarionwriteathon.com

We’ve reached over $2000! We’re pushing for our $15,000 goal, and have a very special Write-a-thon incentive to offer. Donate $750 or more (which can be spread across multiple writers) to have your name, or a name of your choosing, immortalized in text by the renowned Kim Stanley Robinson!

Thank you to all our wonderful Write-a-thon participants and donors! We still have a way to go to reach our $15,000 goal. We’ve got special prizes lined up, including signed titles from George R. R. Martin, Carmen Maria Machado and Elizabeth Bear! Spread the word! Support the Clarion Workshop 🚀

It’s week 4 of the Clarion Writers’ Workshop, and @annaleen.bsky.social is our fantastic instructor! We’re so glad to have them! Happy workshopping! ✨

We’ve reached over $1000 in donations! We’re so grateful to all our donors. We still have some way to go to reach our target. So, consider supporting the workshop by donating or sponsoring one of our amazing Write-a-thon writers! Spread the word 🚀 clarionwriteathon.com/members/brow...

It’s the third week of the Clarion Writers’ Workshop, and we are so honored to have @cadwellturnbull.bsky.social as our wonderful instructor! He will also be reading tomorrow at @mystgalaxybooks.bsky.social, so come by and say hi!

We have some awesome Write-a-Thon prizes for both our donors and participants! This year, the top 3 fundraisers will be eligible for a story critique from some of the most seasoned and best-selling authors, including Clarion Foundation President and award-winning author, Karen Joy Fowler!

The Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Masterclass is returning soon! Join us in San Diego for a day of learning with esteemed faculty, alumni and panelists. Find out more and sign up through the link in the comment below!

We’re cheering on our dedicated writers working towards their Write-a-Thon goals! Check out their pages and show them support via the link below! 🖊️✨ clarionwriteathon.com/members/brow...

Our week 2 instructor at the workshop is the amazing @premeemohamed.com! Have a fantastic rest of the week! 🌟

It’s great to see the list of Write-a-thon participants building up! There is still plenty of time to sign up. Join our community of fundraisers and get those writing goals met! 🚀 clarionwriteathon.org

Signed copies of a lot of books available at @mystgalaxybooks.bsky.social !!!

The Clarion Write-a-Thon is up and running! Do you have any writing goals in mind? Sign up and join our list of amazing participants to help us reach our $15,000 goal! 🚀 Find more about signing up and donating at: clarionwriteathon.org/writerstips/

The 2025 Clarion Writers’ Workshop is underway, and we are so thrilled to have @matociquala.bsky.social ‬as our fantastic Week 1 instructor! Mark your calendar for Elizabeth Bear’s reading this Wednesday! 🚀🚀

The Clarion Write-a-Thon will be starting up again in just a few days! Get on top of your writing goals by joining us from June 29 to August 9 to raise money for the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop. Sign up through the link below! 🖊️🖊️🖊️ clarionwriteathon.com

We are so excited for our incoming cohort, who will soon be attending the 2025 Clarion Writers’ Workshop!

We are so excited to announce our talented cohort of writers for the 2025 Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop. Congratulations to these incredible writers! We cannot wait to meet you all in San Diego!

It's time to get those stories in! Applications for the 2025 Clarion Writers’ Workshop close tomorrow, February 18, at 11:59 am PST! We are so excited to read all of your fantastic work. Apply through the link below: www.eventbrite.com/e/applicatio...

We have an update for the 2025 Clarion Writers’ Workshop application period. The deadline has been extended to February 18 at 12:59 am PST! We look forward to reading all of your work! Apply through the link below: www.eventbrite.com/e/applicatio...

We are so excited to have GennaRose Nethercott as a 2025 Clarion instructor. She is the author of a novel, Thistlefoot, a short fiction collection, Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart, and a book-length poem, The Lumberjack’s Dove—a winner of the National Poetry Series. Apply through the link below!

Applications are closing soon for the 2025 Clarion Writers’ Workshop. Don’t delay, and get all of your amazing stories in by February 15 at 12:59 am PST! Apply through the link below. www.eventbrite.com/e/applicatio...

We are thrilled to have Jedediah Berry as a 2025 Clarion instructor! @jedediahberry.com is the author of The Naming Song. His first novel, The Manual of Detection, won the Crawford Award and the Hammett Prize, and was adapted for broadcast by BBC Radio 4. Apply through the link below!

We are honored to have Annalee Newitz as a 2025 Clarion instructor. They are the author of The Terraformers, The Future of Another Timeline, and Autonomous, which won the Lambda Literary Award. They have published in The Washington Post and The New Yorker, among many others. Application link below!

We are delighted to have Cadwell Turnbull as a 2025 Clarion instructor. @cadwellturnbull.bsky.social is the award-winning author of The Lesson and No Gods, No Monsters and We Are the Crisis. His short fiction has appeared in Lightspeed, Nightmare, and Asimov’s Science Fiction. Apply at link below!

We are excited to have Premee Mohamed as a 2025 Clarion instructor. @premeemohamed.com is a Nebula, World Fantasy and Aurora award-winning speculative fiction author. She has also been a finalist for the Hugo, Ignyte, Locus, British Fantasy and Crawford awards. Applications are open in link below!

We are thrilled to have Elizabeth Bear as a 2025 Clarion instructor. She is the Hugo, Sturgeon, Locus, and Astounding Award winning author of over 30 novels and more than a hundred short stories. Applications are still open! Follow the link below:

We are so excited for our fantastic lineup of 2025 Clarion Writers’ Workshop instructors! Applications to the Workshop are now open! Follow the link here: www.eventbrite.com/e/applicatio...

Today is Giving Tuesday! Since 1968, the Clarion Writers’ Workshop has taught aspiring writers of science fiction and fantasy. Donations support the workshop and make the opportunity accessible to a wide range of writers. Consider donating and spread the word! #GivingTuesday Link in comment below!

Applications for the 2025 Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop are open! Aspiring writers of fantasy and science fiction will write and workshop together from June 29 to August 9, 2025. Apply by January 31st for early application rates. Follow the link here:

I'm participating in this year's @clarionucsd.bsky.social Write-A-Thon to help raise money for this great workshop! If you want to you can support my efforts here! clarionwriteathon.com/members/prof...