Clarion and Clarion West, 2011

Clarion and Clarion West have announced their instructors for 2011! If you’re unaware of these workshops, they are six week residential short story workshops with amazing authors teaching. Clarion/Clarion West graduates include ISBW favorites such as James Patrick Kelly, Cory Doctorow, Ben Rosenbaum, and Mary Anne Mohanraj, to name but a few.

Clarion West 2011 in Seattle, WA:

• Paul Park
• Nancy Kress *
• Margo Lanagan
• Minister Faust *
• L. Timmel Duchamp
• Charles Stross

Clarion 2011 at UC San Diego:

• Week One: Nina Kiriki Hoffman
• Week Two: John Scalzi *
• Week Three: Elizabeth Bear
• Week Four: David Anthony Durham
• Week Five and Six: John Kessel * and Kij Johnson

Clarion has been a dream of mine ever since I found out its existence. Next year is when I’m going to aim to go, if the stars align with finances, husband’s schedule, and kiddo’s camp. But no idea which one to apply to…

(* yes, I feel the need to point out which of these illustrious people have been on ISBW….)