Clarion West 1994

My Experience

I was fortunate enough to be able to attend the Clarion West Writer's Workshop in the summer of 1994. Clarion West was a wonderful experience for me, although not everyone fares so well. It's basically boot camp for writers for six weeks, writing 5-6 stories, reading and critiquing over 100 stories, living and learning intensely. I'm still in contact with many of my classmates now nearly a decade later, and a rather large percentage of us have had success at writing. We've produced over a dozen books, and had dozens of short stories published in professional anthologies and magazines. If I have my count right, six of us have sold books, and sixteen of us have at least one professional fiction sale. I'm really proud of my class! At least half of us are still in there slugging. While the craft acquired at something like Clarion is not to be underestimated, the most important legacy to me has been the friends and professional contacts I made there.

My Class

• Paul Allen
• Renee Awanna
• Michael Belfiore
• Ojvind Bernander
• Ellen Brenner
• Michael Brotherton
• Pedro Domingos
• Andy Duncan
• Bronwyn Elko
• M. W. Keiper
• Pamela Marks
• Syne Mitchell
• Eric Nylund
• E. Jay O'Connell
• Carol Pinchefsky
• Melissa Shaw
• Byron Tetrick
• Kelly Winters
• Ray West
• Rob Wojtasiewicz

I'll get links up to everyone sooner or later, either to their personal webpages or to Amazon to buy their books.