Two of my Clarion friends have absolutely awesome stories up this week.


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My Clarion-mates, as I never get tired of saying, wrote awesome stories. It's wonderful to see the Clarion stories getting published, and to remember that we were *there* when they were being written. Clarion was a very special place.

• Nick Wolven's An Art, Like Everything Else, was in Asimov's in April/May 2008. I can't link to it since it's a paper ( Read more... )

The continuing Chronicle of Clarion

Week 2: The Week of Dead Roman

The schedule led us to expect Jeff Vandermeer, accompanied by his wife Ann. What we got was a bonus: Jeff-and-Ann-Vandermeer. Greg had told us that Jeff would read our stories. He had. Every single one of them. Our submission stories. And everything we had written since. So had ( Read more... )

 I've been regretting that we weren't encouraged to blog about Clarion while we were there. I understand the reasons, but it still seemed sad to have no record on the web of our amazing 6 weeks. Then Jan started writing about Clarion on her blog, and I felt free to follow suit.

So here's my impressions from the first week of Clarion.

Before Clarion:

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