Hello Clarion Community,
It's hard to believe that Spooky Season is already behind us! We're now swiftly heading towards the end of the year--which means that Clarion applications will be opening soon! To our alumni and instructors, we hope you'll spread the word to the writers in your community. To everyone else, if you've ever thought of applying, we'd gladly welcome your application.
On that note, we're absolutely thrilled to announce here in the latest e-bulletin our superb slate of 2023 Clarion Workshop instructors! In this issue, we also include another crop of awesome updates from our illustrious Clarion alumni!
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Andy Duncan returns this summer for his third stint as a Clarion Workshop instructor! His honors include a Nebula Award, a Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, three World Fantasy Awards, and awards from the Maryland State Arts Council and the Science Fiction Research Association. His latest collection is An Agent of Utopia, from Small Beer Press; he narrates nine stories on the Recorded Books audio edition. His non-fiction project Weird Western Maryland is ongoing. A former board member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association, he tweets @Beluthahatchie and lives in Maryland’s mountains, where he’s a tenured English professor at Frostburg State University.
Alaya Dawn Johnson is the author of Racing the Dark, The Summer Prince, which was long listed for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, and Love Is the Drug, which won the prestigious Nebula (Andre Norton) Award for YA Science Fiction and Fantasy. In a return to adult fiction, Trouble the Saints, was published by Tor in 2020. In the past decade, her award-winning short stories have appeared in many magazines and anthologies, including Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015, Feral Youth, Three Sides of a Heart and Zombies vs. Unicorns. In Mexico City where she has made her home since 2014, Johnson has recently received her master’s degree with honors in Mesoamerican Studies from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
Tochi Onyebuchi is the author of Goliath. His previous fiction includes Riot Baby, a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and NAACP Image Awards and winner of the New England Book Award for Fiction, the Ignyte Award for Best Novella, and the World Fantasy Award; the Beasts Made of Night series; and the War Girls series. His short fiction has appeared in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, The Year’s Best Science Fiction, and elsewhere. His non-fiction includes the book (S)kinfolk and has appeared in The New York Times, NPR, and the Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy, among other places. He has earned degrees from Yale University, New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Columbia Law School, and the Paris Institute of Political Studies.
Anjali Sachdeva’s short story collection, All the Names They Used for God, was the winner of the 2019 Chautauqua Prize. It was named a Best Book of 2018 by NPR, Refinery 29, and BookRiot, longlisted for the Story Prize, and chosen as the 2018 Fiction Book of the Year by the Reading Women podcast. Her fiction has been published in McSweeney's, Lightspeed, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading, among other publications, and featured on the LeVar Burton Reads podcast. Sachdeva worked for six years at the Creative Nonfiction Foundation, where she was Director of Educational Programs. She is the recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and an Investing in Professional Artists grant from the Heinz Endowments and the Pittsburgh Foundation. She currently teaches at the University of Pittsburgh, and in the low-residency MFA program at Randolph College.
Charles Coleman Finlay is another welcome return, joining us for his third summer as a Clarion instructor. In January 2015, C.C. Finlay became the ninth editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. He is also the author of the Traitor to the Crown historical fantasy trilogy, which began with The Patriot Witch, and a stand-alone fantasy novel, The Prodigal Troll. He's published more than forty stories since 2001, many of which have been reprinted in volumes of the Year's Best Fantasy, Year's Best Science Fiction, Best New Horror, and other anthologies. Some of his short stories have been finalists for the Hugo, Nebula, Sidewise, and Sturgeon awards, and have been translated into more than a dozen languages. In addition to Clarion, he has instructed at the Clarion Young Authors workshop, the Alpha Writers Workshop, and the Odyssey Online Workshop.
Rae Carson joins for a second summer as an instructor of the Clarion Workshop. Her debut novel, The Girl of Fire and Thorns, was published in 2011, and was a finalist for the William C. Morris YA Award and the Andre Norton Award, and it was the winner of the Ohioana Book Award for Young Adult Literature. It was also selected as 2012 Top Ten Best Fiction for Young Adults by Young Adult Library Services Association. The Fire and Thorns Trilogy was a New York Times bestseller, as was her Gold Seer Trilogy. Beginning in 2017, she has written several tie-in stories for the Star Wars universe, including the novelization of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. In 2021, she released her most recent novel, Any Sign of Life. In addition to her novels, her short fiction has been nominated for Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards.
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Clarion Alumni News
Please see below for our new alumni publication announcements. Don't see your most recent publication, sale, or award? Please email us at bulletin@theclarionfoundation.org and include your name, years, and news. If you have any links, please include them!
1974
P.C. Hodgell
Sold the 11th Kencyrath novel, sequel to Deathless Gods, to Baen Books.
1982
Nina Kiriki Hoffman
"Trapping Fairies" was published in the July/Aug 2022 issue of F&SF.
1985
Geoffrey A. Landis
“Gravity (some things that fly)” won 2nd place at the 2022 Rhysling Awards.
1995
Nalo Hopkinson
“Broad Dutty Water: A Sunken Story” won the 2022 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award.
Rosemary Claire Smith
“The Next Frontier“ won 4th place at the 2021 Analog AnLab Awards for Best Novelette.
Lucy A. Snyder
Exposed Nerves was nominated for a 2021 Ladies of Horror Fiction Award for Best Poetry Collection.
1998
Christopher Barzak
Monstrous Alterations sold to Lethe Press.
2001
Rudi Dornemann
“Starblind, Booklost, and Hearing the Songs of True Birds” was published in the July/Aug 2022 issue of F&SF.
Nnedi Okorafor
Remote Control won the 2022 Nommo Award for Best Novella.
2003
Will McIntosh
"Work Minus Eighty" was published in the July/Aug 2022 issue of Asimov's.
2006
Robert Levy
(1) "Ceremonials" was published in the July/Aug 2022 issue of F&SF; (2) "The Closet Game" was published in the July 2022 issue of Nightmare.
2007
Nick Wolven
"The Garbage Girls" was published in the July/Aug 2022 issue of F&SF.
2009
Monica Byrne
The Actual Star won the 2022 Wellman Award.
2013
Marie Vibbert
(1) “The Unlikely Heroines of Callisto Station“ won 2nd place at the 2021 Analog AnLab Awards for Best Novella; (2) “Room to Live“ won 5th place at the 2021 Analog AnLab Awards for Best Short Story; (3) “We Built This City” was published in the June 2022 issue of Clarkesworld; (4) “Bumblebot” was published in the Sept/Oct. 2022 issue of Analog.
Isabel Yap
(1) Never Have I Ever won both the the 2022 British Fantasy Award for Best Collection and the 2021 Ladies of Horror award for Best Collection, and was nominated as a World Fantasy Award finalist for Best Collection; (2) “A Canticle for Lost Girls” was nominated for the 2022 World Fantasy Awards for Best Novella; (3) “Syringe" was nominated for the 2021 Ladies of Horror Fiction Awards for Best Short Fiction.
2014
Nino Cipri
"Defekt" won the 2022 British Fantasy Award for Best Novella.
Vida Cruz
“We Are the Mountain: A Look at the Inactive Protagonist“ won the 2022 Ignyte Award for Best in Creative Nonfiction.
Sarena Ulibarri
Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures, was nominated for an Inaugural Utopia Award for Best Anthology/Collection.
2017
Margaret Jameson
“The Women” was nominated for a 2021 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novelette.
Miyuki Jane Pinckard
"Radcliffe Hall" was published in the Sept/Oct issue of Uncanny.
2018
Mel Kassel
"Skitterdead" was published in the Aug 2022 issue of Nightmare.
2019
Pemi Aguda
“Masquerade Season“ won the 2022 Nommo Award for Best Short Story.
Em North
In Universes, a debut SF novel, sold to Harper. To be released in 2024.
2022
Shingai Njeri Kagunda
And This is How to Stay Alive won the 2022 Ignyte Award for Best Novella, was nominated for a 2021 Ladies of Horror Fiction Award for Best Novella, and was short-listed for the 2022 British Fantasy Awards for Best Novella.
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That's it for this newsletter! Till next time. If you have any feedback, please get in touch at bulletin@theclarionfoundation.org.
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