Hello Clarion Community,
Happy New Year! We wish you the best of tidings as we plunge into 2023.
Last year we welcomed (at long last) the Ghost Class of 2020, reconvening the in-person workshop at the UCSD campus after two years of delay due to Covid-19. This summer, we're excited to welcome a new crop of excellent students to beautiful San Diego, where a transformative experience awaits.
In this issue of our e-bulletin, we're including a reminder that applications to this year's workshop are still open. Alumni, instructors, and friends, please do share the news (like forwarding this newsletter!) with your aspiring writer friends - we'd love to welcome them to our community! If you're a prospective applicant, we look forward to reading your application. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to reach out to us. Additionally, we are sharing our updated Code of Conduct for the workshop, which reflects our commitment to creating an inclusive and encouraging community. We follow this up with our latest batch of excellent alumni news.
We would also like to thank all of the wonderful alumni, instructors, and other community members on Twitter who have stepped up in a big way this past year to help defray costs for applicants. We are grateful and humbled by your generosity.
If you have the means and would like to help fund the workshop and/or scholarships for students, please consider donating. Thank you again to our generous donors and signal-boosters. Onto the newsletter!
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Clarion Workshop 2023
Applications close on March 1, 2023, at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time (but please give yourself ample time to complete the application!)
We know that the workshop is costly for students. If you're accepted, the Clarion Foundation will do its best to ensure you can attend. There are ample opportunities for financial assistance. Application fee assistance is also available for a limited number of applicants who identify as being from an historically marginalized group.
Over the years, the Clarion Writers' Workshop has built an incredible community of writers that support and mentor one another through their careers. If you have a friend, family member, or acquaintance who can benefit from attending Clarion, please encourage them to apply! If you are an alumni, we would also appreciate you signal-boosting or sharing your own Clarion stories in your networks. Word of mouth is the best way to gain new applicants and grow the Clarion community.
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In our efforts to reaffirm our commitment to creating an inclusive community through Clarion, we've recently revised our Code of Conduct. We've included it here in its entirety.
Code of Conduct
The Clarion Workshop strives to create a kind, generous, and supportive community in which every participant feels welcome and able to contribute their best work. We are committed to providing a welcoming environment for our participants, free from harassment regardless of gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, neurodiversity, physical appearance, body, age, race, ethnicity, nationality, language, or religion. We’ve written this code of conduct not because we expect bad behavior from our community—which, in our experience, is overwhelmingly kind and civil — but because we believe a clear code of conduct is a necessary part of building a respectful community space.
As members of the Clarion community, we ask that all participants (students, staff, and instructors alike):
Strive to be friendly, welcoming, patient, and kind. Participants should be considerate in speech and actions, and actively seek to acknowledge and respect the boundaries of fellow attendees. Clarion is a small space and we encourage intimate and close conversations about life and art, but individuals should not assume their fellow participants’ comfort level regarding difficult or contentious conversation topics, and varying levels of physical contact. When in doubt, they should check their fellow attendees’ comfort level and receive proper consent.
Be sensitive to the words and behavior they choose. As a small community space, Clarion is committed to ensuring the safety and well-being of all its community members. Participants should refrain from demeaning, discriminatory, or harassing behavior and speech. Harassment includes, but is not limited to:
- verbal or written attacks explicitly aimed at any member of the community in workshop or at social events
- behavior that is abusive to others, including persistent, unwanted sexual advances or unwanted physical contact, sexual harassment, gender violence, and sexual violence
- repeated unwanted communications, whether in person or through electronic communications
- alcohol or drug abuse
- any acts of physical violence, physical altercations, or property damage
- deliberate intimidation, including sustained or willful disruption of conversations or other activities
- behavior that contributes to creating a hostile, intimidating, or offensive environment
- unwanted photography or recording
- intentional and sustained misgendering, or use of "dead" names
- microaggressions in the form of verbal, nonverbal, and environmental slights, snubs, or insults, whether intentional or unintentional, which communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative messages targeting individuals based upon their marginalized group membership
- unwelcome comments regarding a person’s lifestyle choices and practices, including those related to food, health, parenting, relationships, drugs, and employment.
Through dialogue, we are able to push one another to be thoughtful of our own strengths and biases. We acknowledge that respectful disagreements can be extremely productive in many settings, including our workshops and classes. Even when it is uncomfortable, challenging each other’s work or ideas is an essential part of growing and learning—as writers and human beings. These should be approached with kindness and generosity and active listening and respect for one another’s boundaries and needs. Individuals asked to stop any of the above behaviors are expected to comply.
Take care of each other. One of the most profound parts of the Clarion experience is the strength of our inclusive community, and for many the relationships they make at Clarion sustain their lives and careers for decades to come. We each play a part in growing and building upon that foundation. We hope that participants make new connections and engage in intimate conversations that help them grow as a writer and a member of the literary community, and put one another’s care and well-being as primary above all.
Procedure for Complaints:
If anyone observes or experiences an incident of concern, they should report the incident to the director or coordinator immediately. If the incident involves the faculty director or coordinator, they should contact the Clarion Foundation at info@theclarionfoundation.org. Reports will be handled confidentially to the extent possible and in as timely a manner as possible, to ensure all participants feel seen, heard, and safe and the Clarion community maintains the spirit of inclusion that we value. During the workshop, we also maintain an anonymous reporting form, for anyone to report having or experiencing an experience without identifying themselves.
We prohibit retaliation against any participants for reporting harassment, intimidation or discrimination, or for participating in an investigation relating to any complaint made. The consequences for retaliation are the same as any other violation of this code of conduct.
Consequences of Violations:
Consequences for failing to uphold the standards of this code of conduct may include, but are not limited to: a formal warning, requesting a formal apology on behalf of the complainant(s), removal from the workshop, and denial of participation in future Clarion activities
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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!
1970
Octavia Butler
Was this year’s recipient of the Forry Award for Lifetime Achievement in the SF Field, presented by the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society.
1975
Gregory Frost
Rhymer and two more books in an epic fantasy series sold to Toni Weisskopf at Baen Books.
1979
Scott Edelman
"A Man Walks Into a Bar: In Which More Than Four Decades After My Father’s Reluctant Night of Darts on West 54th Street I Finally Understand What Needs to Be Done" appeared in Lightspeed, Jan 2023.
1982
Nina Kiriki Hoffman
"Travelers’ Unrest" appeared in Uncanny Magazine, Dec 2022.
1987
David Ira Cleary
"My Year as a Boy" appeared in Asimov's, Jan/Feb 2023.
1988
Mark Tiedemann
"Christmas at Albert's" appeared in Analog, Jan/Feb 2023.
1993
Alex Irvine
"Pledge Day" appeared in Lightspeed, Dec. 2022.
2002
Jason Erik Lundberg
Fish Eats Lion Redux, a new anthology (ed. Jason Erik Lundberg), was released by Epigram Books, 2022.
2004
Marjorie Liu
Monstress Volume Six: The Vow (Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda) won the 2022 World Fantasy Special Award in the Professional category.
2008
Emily Jiang
"Unicorn's Patience" appeared in Strange Horizons, Nov 2022.
2009
Liz Argall
Ordinary Madness (2022) was published in a limited edition print run.
2013
Marie Vibbert
(1) "Forgotten Eyes" appeared in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Dec. 2022; (2) "The Echo of a Will" appeared in Analog, Jan/Feb 2023.
2018
Silvia Park
Debut novel Luminous was sold to Tim O’Connell at Simon & Schuster at auction. UK rights were sold to Juliet Mabey at Oneworld in a pre-empt, and film and TV rights were optioned by Media Res in a pre-empt.
2019
Pemi Aguda
Short story collection Ghostroots and novel The Suicide Mothers were sold to Nneoma Amadi-obi at Norton in a pre-empt.
2022
Matthew Olivas
"The Other Side of Mictlān" appeared in Uncanny Magazine, Dec. 2022.
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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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