Clarion blogs, journals, articles and interviews

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 | clarion

Last updated 21 March 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. I’m thinking about alphabetizing it sometime, what do you think?

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 Eugene Fisher – Clarion 2008

NEW Kari O’Connor – Clarion 2007

UPDATED Ken Schneyer – Clarion 2009 (one of my Clarion buddies)

UPDATED Liz Argall – umm, yeah, me! Clarion Class of 2009

Random Jane – Clarion West 2005

Artemis Jones – Clarion West 2002

Allan Rousselle – Clarion West 2001

William Shunn – Clarion 1985

Geoffrey A. Landis - Clarion 1985

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)

David Levine – Clarion West 2000

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

Shauna Roberts – Clarion 2009 (one of my Clarion buddies)

Mishell Baker – Clarion 2009 (one of my Clarion buddies)

Rochita Loenen-Ruiz – Clarion West 2009

Rudy Rucker – Clarion West 2009

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

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

Alessio Bresciani – Clarion South

Ben Rosenbaum – Clarion West

The Ferret – Clarion

Suzy McKee Charnas – A tutor’s perspective

Keyan Bowes – Clarion 2007

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 (Brisbane, Australia)

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

Clarion, San Diego, 2009

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22 Comments to Clarion blogs, journals, articles and interviews

Matt London
March 31, 2009

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.

Jason Fischer
April 1, 2009

not sure what happened there? just send you a bunch of links.

Liz
April 1, 2009

Doh! I don’t know what happened either :-(

Benjamin Rosenbaum
April 1, 2009

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

Jason Fischer
April 2, 2009

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/

Liz
April 2, 2009

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.

Shauna Roberts
April 16, 2009

Thanks, Liz. It was kind of you to put this list together for us.

Nina K.
April 20, 2009

Yes, thanks — and also for those other story links. Appreciated!

Liz
April 21, 2009

My absolute pleasure :-)

Keyan Bowes
April 25, 2009

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

Keyan Bowes
April 25, 2009

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.

Liz
April 25, 2009

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.

Pamela
November 10, 2009

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.

[...] part of its monthly maintenance program The Clarion Blogs Collection has grown. This month Philip Brewer, Pamela Rentz, Wendy A. Shaffer and Neile Graham have been [...]

[...] Since the demise of Hilary Moon Murphy’s Clarion Ex Machina site, there hasn’t been a good collection of links to all the various Clarion journals.  Now Liz Argall has fixed that with her page of Clarion blogs, journals, articles and interviews. [...]

Pamela
December 18, 2009

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.

Liz
December 18, 2009

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…

[...] William Shunn and Geoffrey A. Landis have been added to the collection. [...]

[...] new Clarion blogs have been added to the collection this month – Random Jane, Artemis Jones and Allan Rouselle. I found these blogs through a [...]

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Michael A. Burstein
March 25, 2010

Here’s a link to an article I wrote about attending Clarion in 1994:
http://www.jophan.org/mimosa/m17/burstein.htm

(Also available without the art at http://mabfan.com/clarion.shtml)

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