Clarion blogs, journals, articles and interviews
Last updated 16 February 2010
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. There are some additional links at the bottom for general Clarion stuff. Enjoy.
The list is updated about once a month – I find journal entries from kind people sending me e-mails or comments and searching. 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. I try to check the spam box regularly, but spam is a pernicious beasty that poisons everything it touches and sometimes I might not find it.
You may wish to begin at the beginning, get cozy with Storyteller: Writing Lessons and More from 27 Years of the Clarion Writers’ Workshop written by Clarion co-founder Kate Wilhelm. I love learning through examples, stories and anecdotes. I must sit down with it again, very practical, very lovely… and, this time round, a little nostalgic.
Direct links to journal entries (or tagged collections of entries)
NEW Random Jane – Clarion West 2005
- Short and sweet with some unusual metrics (I wonder how the yoga mat is)
NEW Artemis Jones – Clarion West 2002
NEW Allan Rousselle – Clarion West 2001
William Shunn – Clarion 1985
Geoffrey A. Landis - Clarion 1985
- Survival tips (still relevant today), a few thoughts looking back, and where are they now statistics
Philip Brewer – Clarion 2001
Neile Graham – Clarion West 1996
Pamela Rentz – Clarion West 2008
Wendy A. Shaffer – Clarion West 2002
Clarion South on Tor.com – an overview
Aidan Doyle – Clarion South
Angela Slatter – Clarion South
Tiffani Angus – Clarion 2009 (one of my Clarion Buddies)
- Week 1
- Week 2
- Week 3
- Week 4
- Week 5
- Week 6
- And a general Clarion tag, for pre-Clarion and post-Clarion briefings
David Levine – Clarion West 2000
Liz Argall – umm, yeah, me! Clarion Class of 2009
- Post Clarion and moving to the USA reflections – We do it because it is hard
- I wrote about lessons learned when I was a guest at the Conflux virtual mini-convention in 2009
Lee Batersby hosts guest blogs and other juicy Clarion things – Clarion South 2009
- Clarion tagged thingies on Lee Battersby’s Blog
Ken Schneyer – Clarion 2009 (one of my Clarion buddies)
- Index of posts relating to Clarion (some of his posts even have pretty pictures!)
Shauna Roberts – Clarion 2009 (one of my Clarion buddies)
- Shauna reflects on the process on her personal blog
- Shauna writes about it in Novel Spaces
Mishell Baker – Clarion 2009 (one of my Clarion buddies)
- Fantasy Magazine article on pregnantly preparing for Clarion
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
Rudy Rucker – Clarion West 2009
- Some sage words from an instructor How to write
Jordan Lapp – Clarion West 2009
Jeff VanderMeer, Clarion South 2009
Steve Mitchell, Clarion South 2009
Gavin J Grant – Clarion 2000
Alex Wilson – Clarion 2006
Clarion South on Wordpress, including interviews with tutors on the process.
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
Alessio Bresciani – Clarion South
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
The Ferret – Clarion
- Collected Journal entries about Clarion (updated to a new and improved launchpad 1 Apri 09, thanks Mr Ferret)
Suzy McKee Charnas – A tutor’s perspective
Keyan Bowes – Clarion 2007
- Keyan Bowes has created a lovely index page chronicling her Clarion experiences
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
Clarion (San Diego, USA)
Clarion West (Seattle, USA)
Clarion South (Brisbane, Australia)
And down below, that’s my Clarion – 2009, San Diego
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Here are the posts referencing Clarion from the blog of my chum — David Barr Kirtley.
http://www.davidbarrkirtley.com/blog/?s=clarion
These don’t mine the Clarion experience too deeply, but I think it gives a good sense of some success stories and the camaraderie students have once the workshop is over.
not sure what happened there? just send you a bunch of links.
Doh! I don’t know what happened either :-(
If you look at my first entry you’ll see other blogs from my year — Ling, Allan, Philip, Karina & Thomas’s.
There’s a list of 1985-2004 blogs, journals, and paleoblogs at http://www.sff.net/people/hmm/c-logs.html
2006 blogs are extensively cataloged at http://www.alexwilson.com/projects/journal/clarion_2006_of.php and http://www.alexwilson.com/projects/journal/clarion_west_journals.php
I’ll try it again and break it up into a couple of posts (it was quite long).
first up is a rundown of what the 2007 Clarion South Class got published:
http://hydrolith.wordpress.com/2009/02/10/clarion-south-two-years-on/
and a bunch of entries on the Voyager blog re Clarion Souths, with several past and present students and tutors giving their words of wisdom:
http://voyageronline.wordpress.com/2008/11/25/clarion-south-what-comes-first-the-successful-writer-or-the-workshop-part-one/
http://voyageronline.wordpress.com/2008/11/26/clarion-south-what-comes-first-the-successful-writer-or-the-workshop-part-two/
http://voyageronline.wordpress.com/2008/12/31/everything-i-need-to-know-i-learned-at-clarion-south-by-laura-e-goodin/
and a whole bunch of others here (you may need to scroll down a little to get the individual links but I don’t want to break your blog again!)
http://voyageronline.wordpress.com/?s=clarion+south
hope this helps!
Jason.
Thanks so much guys.
I knew there had to be other folks who had collected posts, but hadn’t found them.
Full of awesome.
I should add I’m focusing on direct links to posts about Clarion rather than general blog links to folks who have been to Clarion.
hmmm, I just realised it could be the spam filter that killed your previous posts, can’t believe I didn’t think of it earlier. I shall investigate.
Thanks, Liz. It was kind of you to put this list together for us.
Yes, thanks — and also for those other story links. Appreciated!
My absolute pleasure :-)
Hi Liz,
Here are my blogs about Clarion 2007 at San Diego. We were discouraged from blogging while there, but these entries were written soon afterward.
The final entry is a list (not complete now, but current at the time) of Clarion entry stories, or stories written at Clarion, that had already made it into print or pixel.
http://keyan-bowes.livejournal.com/1593.html
http://keyan-bowes.livejournal.com/1826.html
http://keyan-bowes.livejournal.com/2434.html
http://keyan-bowes.livejournal.com/3903.html
http://keyan-bowes.livejournal.com/4491.html
http://keyan-bowes.livejournal.com/11025.html
Liz, I just sent you links to five LJ entries, summarizing my Clarion 2007 experience – but they seem to have vanished. Not sure what happened.
Thanks for letting me know Keyan. Because of the high number of links in you message my spam detector shuffled it away, but I have been able to retrieve it.
I’ve just started to read your blog posts, they are great. Thank you for sharing them with us.
I don’t know how this is going to look. Here’s the first try.
Here’s a link to <a href="http://www.pamrentz.com/cw/cw08.html”>Clarion West 08
And are my blogposts:
<a href="http://www.pamrentz.com/2008/06/cognitive-load-clarion-west-week-1-i.html”>Week 1.
<a href="http://www.pamrentz.com/2008/07/preemptive-nostalgia-clarion-west-week.html”>Week 2.
<a href="http://www.pamrentz.com/2008/07/halfway-clarion-west-week-3-this-was.html”>Week 3.
<a href="http://www.pamrentz.com/2008/07/clarion-west-week-4-wow.html”>Week 4 part 1 and
<a href="http://www.pamrentz.com/2008/07/clarion-west-little-more-on-week-4-my.html”>Week 4 part 2.
<a href="http://www.pamrentz.com/2008/07/clarion-west-week-5-i-turned-in-my-last.html”>Week 5.
<a href="http://www.pamrentz.com/2008/08/pritpaul-and-shane-share-moment-clarion.html”>Week 6.
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Excellent links.
And thanks for adding me.
I see my comment did eventually go through and looks completely ugly. As I recall, when I left it, I got an error message and I bookmarked to return and try to fix later. And then later never came.
Here’s a link to class of CW 08:
http://pamrentz.com/cw/cw08.html
Hope to see you soon.
My pleasure Pamela. http://pamrentz.com/cw/cw08.html is currently linked to as Overview to start it off. Though if you prefer I can put it in “Clarion related and more alumni”.
The filing system is a little bit squishy, I’m finding it tricky to decide on what sorting system to use – if I should use a different sorting system. I kind of like all the Clarions smooshed together, though I could sort it as Clarion, Clarion South and Clarion West. Or alphabetically, or…
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