Clarion Applications Open!
The 2010 Clarion Writers Workshop is now open for applications, which will be accepted until March 1st. I can't recommend it strongly enough.
The instructors this year are names to be conjured with:
If you've followed my reports on my own Clarion experience, you know that I found it an overwhelming, exhausting, exhilerating, life-changing time. I am confident that I'm a better writer now -- I came out of Clarion with four new stories, two of which were probably better first drafts than anything I've written before. It's the internal editor-voice, the one that comes from writing so many critiques (I logged more than 30,000 words of critique alone during Clarion) and listening to so much instructor-wisdom, that really makes the difference, I think. And I know that I've made seventeen friends for life who are also writers, and who make my life brighter every day.
And while we're at it, I've heard nothing but good things about Clarion West and Odyssey, too; some really hot writers have come out of them. CW 2010 has a line-up that includes Bishop, McHugh, Datlow and McDonald, while Odyssey's guest lecturers next year will include my beloved teacher lizhand, Greg Frost (a classmate of Stan and Bob's in '75), the wise David Hartwell and Alexander Jablokov (an author I worship).
So get to it! Apply!
The instructors this year are names to be conjured with:
- Delia Sherman
- George R.R. Martin
- Dale Bailey
- Samuel R. Delaney
- Jeff VanderMeer
- Ann VanderMeer
If you've followed my reports on my own Clarion experience, you know that I found it an overwhelming, exhausting, exhilerating, life-changing time. I am confident that I'm a better writer now -- I came out of Clarion with four new stories, two of which were probably better first drafts than anything I've written before. It's the internal editor-voice, the one that comes from writing so many critiques (I logged more than 30,000 words of critique alone during Clarion) and listening to so much instructor-wisdom, that really makes the difference, I think. And I know that I've made seventeen friends for life who are also writers, and who make my life brighter every day.
And while we're at it, I've heard nothing but good things about Clarion West and Odyssey, too; some really hot writers have come out of them. CW 2010 has a line-up that includes Bishop, McHugh, Datlow and McDonald, while Odyssey's guest lecturers next year will include my beloved teacher lizhand, Greg Frost (a classmate of Stan and Bob's in '75), the wise David Hartwell and Alexander Jablokov (an author I worship).
So get to it! Apply!