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      a writer of comics, fiction and non-fiction across a range of media.
      She works with community organisations to build participation, membership and meaningful communication, using online and offline tools.

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      Orycon Nov 8-10, Oregon’s Premier Science Fiction Convention.

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    • Mar 31stClarion blogs, journals, articles and interviews

      Last updated 23 December 2012

      An organically growing collection of blog posts, journals and interviews by people who have attended Clarion. To be included the posts must be specifically about the Clarion experience.

      Please let me know if you have (or know of) a link that should be added. If you add a comment with links and it does not appear within a day please e-mail me, it may have set off the spam filter.

      This a lot of information, so you may wish to start with Storyteller: Writing Lessons and More from 27 Years of the Clarion Writers’ Workshop written by Clarion co-founder Kate Wilhelm.

      Direct links to journal entries (or tagged collections of entries)

      NEW Andy Romine and John Remy  – Clarion West 2010

      • Andy and John collaboratively write about their experience

      NEW Linda J Dunn – Clarion 2000

      • Linda blogged frequently and frankly. She wrote 20 stories while at Clarion. The 19 Clarionites in her year wrote 126 stories between them!

      Leonard Pung Remembered – Clarion ’09

      • Leonard Pung Memorial Scholarship
      • I wrote about Leonard, and collected other posts written in his memory

      Excerpts from Story Teller at Small Beer Press

      • Snippets of memory and lessons learned from Gordon Van Gelder, Jeff Ford, Kit Reed, Jim Sallis, Cory Doctorow, Gregory Frost and Nancy Kress

      5 Things I Learned at Clarion/Clarion West

      • Andy Romine writes a full journal entry for each thing he learned.
      • Part 1 - Grá Linnaea, Jim Kelly, Ken Schneyer, Megan Kurashige, Paul M Berger
      • Part 2 – Adam Israel, Damien Walter, Dana Huber,Ferrett Steinmetz, Kat Howard, Liz Argall, Stefani Nellen, Tim Pratt
      • Part 3 – Collin Piprell, Edd Vick, John Walters,Nicole Taylor, Philip Brewer, Sue Burke
      • Part 4 – Emily Jiang, Matt London, Monica Byrne

      Adventures in SciFi Publishing – Clarion 2008

      • A series of interviews with instructors and graduates.
      • Nalo Hopkinson talks about creating a good culture during your workshop around 20 mins into this interview

      Alumni Interviews on Tor.com, by Matt London

      • Kenneth Schneyer
      • Shauna Roberts
      • Grady Hendrix

      Tiffani Angus – Clarion 2009

      • Week 1
      • Week 2
      • Week 3
      • Week 4
      • Week 5
      • Week 6
      • And a general Clarion tag, for pre-Clarion and post-Clarion briefings

      Frank Ard – Clarion West 2010

      • Interview from University of South Alabama – warning, it is a facebook link

      Liz Argall –  Clarion 2009

      • Congratulations and advice to the Class of 2010
      • Post Clarion and moving to the USA reflections – We do it because it is hard

      Mishell Baker – Clarion 2009

      • Fantasy Magazine article on pregnantly preparing for Clarion

      Lee Batersby hosts guest blogs and other juicy Clarion things – Clarion South 2009

      • Clarion tagged thingies on Lee Battersby’s Blog

      Gregory Norman Bossert – Clarion 2010

      • Blog post … and a link to pretty pictures

      Alessio Bresciani – Clarion South

      • http://www.storiesofthefuture.com/category/clarion-south/

      Keyan Bowes – Clarion 2007

      • Keyan Bowes has created a lovely index page chronicling her Clarion experiences

      Philip Brewer – Clarion 2001

      • Launchpad for journals, essays (including one on the costs) and linkage love for the class of ’01
      • What if you can’t go to Clarion? How to be your own writer’s workshop

      Michael A. Burstein – Clarion 1994

      • The Clarion Call

      John Chu – Clarion 2010

      • His Clarion Blog Post

      Aidan Doyle – Clarion South

      • What I Learned From Clarion South
      • Aidan’s article in the Internet Review of Science Fiction

      The Ferret – Clarion

      • Collected Journal entries about Clarion (updated to a new and improved launchpad 1 April 09, thanks Mr Ferret)

      Eugene Fischer – Clarion 2008

      • Advice for those who didn’t get in, congratulations to the Class of 2009, reflections and links to Kathleen Howard‘s Clarion survival advice

      Peta Freestone – Clarion 2011

      • Excellent advice for anyone preparing for Clarion or an intensive residential writers workshop

       

      Neile Graham – Clarion West 1996

      • Neile shows us her journey by sharing e-mails she sent to a friend

      Gavin J Grant – Clarion 2000

      • On readings by the instructors

      Kat Howard – Clarion

      • http://strangeink.blogspot.com/search/label/Clarion

      Random Jane – Clarion West 2005

      • Short and sweet with some unusual metrics (I wonder how the yoga mat is)

      Artemis Jones – Clarion West 2002

      • Artemis’ journey starts here

      James Wallace Harris – Clarion West 2002

      • Satori Stories

      Babel Krieg – Clarion West 2008

      • A series of blog posts

      Jordan Lapp – Clarion West 2009

      • His tagged posts are here

      Geoffrey A. Landis - Clarion 1985

      • Survival tips (still relevant today), a few thoughts looking back, and where are they now statistics

      David Levine – Clarion West 2000

      • Journal entries plus lots of linkage love to other Clarion things

      Rochita Loenen-Ruiz – Clarion West 2009

      • In Fantasy Magazine she writes of her anticipation
      • She wrote many blog posts in her Livejournal, this is when she arrives at Clarion and you can trace her steps from there

      Maura McHugh – Clarion West 2006

      • Maura’s posts tagged Clarion – go back a few pages if you want to read stuff written in the moment (though often reflections afterwards have interesting digestions).

      Suzy McKee Charnas – A tutor’s perspective

      • Clarion, Teaching the best fiction writers’ workshop for fantasy and science fiction

      Sam J Miller – Clarion 2012

      • Sam has collected an epic number of quotes. Writing advice, industry advice, shenanigan advice. These quotes came from the following brilliant writers:

      Ted Chiang, John Scalzi, Delia Sherman, Holly Black, Cassandra Clare, Vernor Vinge,Walter Jon Williams, Jeffrey Ford, Greg Van Eekhout, Doselle Young, Karen Jay Fowler, Shelley Streeby, Cindy Pon,Carmen Machado, Chris Kammerud, Lisa Bolekaja, Ruby Obeyeskere, E.G. Cosh, Eliza Blair, Sadie Mattox, Joseph Kim, Sarah Mack, Deborah Bailey, Daniel McMinn, Jonathan Fortin, Lara Donnelly, Danica Cummins, Luke Pebler, Pierre Liebenberg, Eric Esser, and Sam J. Miller.

      Steve Mitchell, Clarion South 2009

      • With pretty pictures and everything

      Cathy Morrison – Clarion 2003

      • Clarion Journal. Nicely structured so you can see which instructor her brain-meats are about to be inspired by.

      Val Nolan – Clarion ’09

      • What Clarion meant to Val, and why you should go

      Kari O’Connor – Clarion 2007

      • Many and varied blog posts about Clarion

      John Remy – Clarion West 2010

      • Week 0
      • Framing the Clarion West Narrative
      • My Clarion West Experience: No Conflict, No Story

      Pamela Rentz – Clarion West 2008

      • Overview
      • Week 1
      • Week 2
      • Week 3
      • Week 4 part 1 and? Week 4 part 2
      • Week 5
      • Week 6

      Shauna Roberts – Clarion 2009

      • Shauna reflects on the process on her personal blog
      • Shauna writes about it in Novel Spaces

      Andy Romine – Clarion West 2010

      • Things learned and other stuff in his Clarion West tag.

      Ben Rosenbaum – Clarion West

      • http://www.benjaminrosenbaum.com/journal/2001_06_20.html
      • http://www.benjaminrosenbaum.com/journal/2001_07_12.html
      • http://www.benjaminrosenbaum.com/journal/2001_08_17.html

      Allan Rousselle – Clarion West 2001

      • Allan’s journey starts here

      Rudy Rucker – Clarion West 2009

      • Some sage words from an instructor How to write

      Ken Schneyer – Clarion 2009

      • Ken’s congratulations and advice to the Class of 2010
      • Index of posts relating to Clarion (some of his posts even have pretty pictures!)

      John Schoffstall – Clarion West 2004

      • http://st-at-clarion.livejournal.com/

      Wendy A. Shaffer – Clarion West 2002

      • Read the whole shebang here

      William Shunn – Clarion 1985

      • Clarion My Wayward Son

      Angela Slatter – Clarion South

      • Overview of the full 6 weeks

      Clarion South on Tor.com – an overview

      • A lovely overview and interview with the administrators of Clarion South

      Clarion South on WordPress, including interviews with tutors on the process.

      • http://en.wordpress.com/tag/clarion-south-writers-workshop/

      Clarion South Collective of 2007

      • What comes first the successful writer or the workshop part one
      • What comes first the successful writer or the workshop part two
      • Getting creative part 1
      • Getting creative aka the physics of unicorn horns part 2
      • Quantity versus quality part one
      • Quality over quantity part two
      • Everything I need to know I learned at clarion south by laura e goodin
      • Working-with-the-big-bad-bold-tutors

      and the achievements of the 2007 class over the last two years

      Clarion South Two years on

      Jasmine Stairs – Clarion 2011

      • All of her Clarion experiences tagged together. Full of pretty pictures and entertaining quotes.

      Dallas Taylor – Clarion 2010

      • Looking back at Clarion 2010 – and why you should apply for 2011
      • Process, application and who knows what else under his Clarion tag

      Tom Undeberg – Clarion 2010

      • Tom keeps it short and sweet.

      Michael Underwood – Clarion West ’07

      • A collection of posts organized by tag

      Jeff VanderMeer, Clarion South 2009

      • A teacher’s perspective

      Tracie Welser (Clarion West 2010)

      • Things tagged Clarion on her blog (including her Clarion Tattoo)

      Alex Wilson – Clarion 2006

      • On preparing himself for Clarion

      Caroline M. Yoachim – Clarion West 2006

      • Tagged collection of Clarion entries

       

      Clarion related and more alumni

      Tina Connolly maintains a lot of knowledge love and linkage love for Clarion West, her year and other years

      General blogs and linkage love for Clarion class of 2006

      Blog links for Clarion West class of 2006

      David Barr Kirtley – After Clarion

      The Clarion Actual

      The Clarion Foundation, & Clarion (San Diego, USA)

      Clarion West (Seattle, USA)

      Clarion South (????, Australia) – on hiatus indefinitely until they find an affordable venue. If you know somewhere that might be suitable for hosting a 6 week residential workshop please contact the organizers.

      And down below, that’s my Clarion – 2009, San Diego

      Clarion, San Diego, 2009

       


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