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List Of Clarion Writers Workshop Alumni
This is a partial list of alumni of the Clarion Workshop, an annual writers' workshop for science fiction, fantasy, and speculative literature writers. {, class="wikitable sortable" , - ! Name !! Year !! Notes , - , Mishell Baker , , 2009 , , , - , Christopher Barzak , , 1998 , , Also instructor , - , Adam Bellow , , 1976 , , , - , Judith Berman , , 1994 , , , - , Michael A. Burstein , , 1994 , , , - , Ed Bryant , , 1968 , , Also instructor , - , Tobias S. Buckell , , 1999 , , , - , Octavia Butler , , 1970 , , Also instructor , - , Monica Byrne , , 2008 , , , - , Amy Sterling Casil , , 1984 , , , - , Ted Chiang , , 1989 , , Also instructor , - , John Chu , , 2010 , , , - , Robert Crais , , 1975 , , Also instructor , - , Glen Cook , , 1970 , , , - , Cory Doctorow , , 1992 , , Also instructor , - , Lara Elena Donnelly , , 2012 , , , - , George Alec Effinger , , 1970 , , , - , Kelley Eskridge , , 1988 , , , - , Na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clarion Workshop
Clarion is a six-week workshop for aspiring science fiction and fantasy writers. Originally an outgrowth of Damon Knight's and Kate Wilhelm's Milford Writers' Conference, held at their home in Milford, Pennsylvania, United States, it was founded in 1968 by Robin Scott Wilson at Clarion State College in Pennsylvania. Knight and Wilhelm were among the first teachers at the workshop. Wilhelm, Kate, ''Storyteller: Writing Lessons and More from 27 Years of the Clarion Writers' Workshop'', Small Beer Press, 2005 In 1972, the workshop moved to Michigan State University. It moved again, in 2006, to the University of California, San Diego.Barry Jagoda"Top Science Fiction Writers' Program Comes to UC San Diego" ''This Week at UCSD'', December 18, 2006 In 2015, thClarion Foundationreceived an anonymous gift of $100,000 to create an endowment funding the workshop. The Clarion workshops for 2020 and 2021 were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with the students selected for 2020 slated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Alec Effinger
George Alec Effinger (January 10, 1947 – April 27, 2002) was an American list of science fiction authors, science fiction author, born in Cleveland, Ohio. Writing career Effinger was a part of the Clarion Workshop, Clarion class of 1970 and had three stories in the first Clarion anthology. His first published story was "The Eight-Thirty to Nine Slot" in ''Fantastic (magazine), Fantastic'' in 1971. During his early period, he also published under a variety of pseudonyms. His first novel, ''What Entropy Means to Me'' (1972), was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel, Nebula Award. He achieved his greatest success with the trilogy of Marîd Audran novels set in a 22nd-century Middle East, with cybernetic implants and modules allowing individuals to change their personalities or bodies. The novels are in fact set in a thinly veiled version of the French Quarter of New Orleans. The three published novels were ''When Gravity Fails'' (1987), ''A Fire in the Sun'' (1989), a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kat Howard
Kat Howard is an American author and editor. Her stories have been published in the anthologies ''Stories'' (edited by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio), and ''Oz Reimagined'' (based on L. Frank Baum's characters). She is also a contributor to magazines such as ''Lightspeed'', ''Subterranean'', Uncanny Magazine and ''Apex''. She attended the Clarion Writers Workshop in 2008. She is a 2018 recipient of the Alex Awards. Bibliography Short story collections * ''A Cathedral of Myth and Bone: Stories'' (Gallery / Saga Press, 2019) Novels and novellas * ''The End of the Sentence'' (Subterranean Press, 2014), co-written with Maria Dahvana Headley, "a fairytale of ghosts and guilt, literary horror blended with the visuals of Jean Cocteau, failed executions, shapeshifting goblins, and magical blacksmithery." * ''Roses and Rot'' (S&S/Saga, 2016) * ''An Unkindness of Magicians ''An Unkindness of Magicians'' is a 2017 urban fantasy novel by Kat Howard. The book was selected as the NPR Best ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Horsley
Ron Horsley (born March 4, 1977) is an author and artist responsible for numerous short stories, essays, reviews, and book cover designs. Born and raised in Columbus, Ohio, his first published work was as editor of and contributor to ''The Midnighters Club: Tales from the Harker House Collection'', 2001. The collection included authors such as Paul Tremblay and Lucy Snyder, and several stories received recognition in the 2001 Bram Stoker Awards for Best Short Fiction. His short stories have appeared in magazines such as ''On Spec'' and his story "In the Empty Country" appears in the ''Masques V'' anthology, edited and published by Barry Hoffman and Gary A. Braunbeck (originally edited by Jerry Wiliamson). He is an alumnus of the 2002 Clarion East Workshop for Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing and a recipient of the Douglas L. Ruble scholarship fund for science fiction writing and development. His book cover designs have appeared on Gary A. Braunbeck's non-fiction collection ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nalo Hopkinson
Nalo Hopkinson (born 20 December 1960) is a Jamaican-born Canadian speculative fiction writer and editor. Her novels ('' Brown Girl in the Ring'', ''Midnight Robber'', '' The Salt Roads'', ''The New Moon's Arms'') and short stories such as those in her collection '' Skin Folk'' often draw on Caribbean history and language, and its traditions of oral and written storytelling. Hopkinson has edited two fiction anthologies ('' Whispers From the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction'' and '' Mojo: Conjure Stories''). She was the co-editor with Uppinder Mehan for the anthology '' So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Visions of the Future'', and with Geoff Ryman for ''Tesseracts 9''. Hopkinson defended George Elliott Clarke's novel ''Whylah Falls'' on the CBC's '' Canada Reads 2002''. She was the curator of ''Six Impossible Things'', an audio series of Canadian fantastical fiction on CBC Radio One. As of 2013, she lives and teaches in Riverside, California. In 2020, Hopkinson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grady Hendrix
Grady Hendrix is an American author, journalist, public speaker, and screenwriter known for his best-selling 2014 novel '' Horrorstör''. Hendrix lives in Manhattan and was one of the founders of the New York Asian Film Festival. Life and career Hendrix was born in South Carolina. His parents divorced when he was 13 years old and the author spent much of his time in public libraries. As an adult Hendrix worked in the library of the American Society for Psychical Research before turning to professional writing. Alongside his novels, he has written for numerous media outlets, including ''Playboy Magazine'', The ''New York Post'', and, prior to its closure in 2008, as a film critic for The ''New York Sun''. In 2009, Hendrix attended the Clarion Workshop at the University of California at San Diego. He has also contributed to Katie Crouch's young adult series ''The Magnolia League,'' and his fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons and Pseudopod. In 2012, Hendrix co-wrote '' Dirt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eileen Gunn
Eileen Gunn (born June 23, 1945, Dorchester, Massachusetts) is a science fiction author and editor based in Seattle, Washington, who began publishing in 1978. Her story "Coming to Terms", inspired, in part, by a friendship with Avram Davidson, won the Nebula Award for Best Short Story in 2004. Two other stories were nominated for the Hugo Award: " Stable Strategies for Middle Management" (in 1989) and "Computer Friendly" (1990). Background Gunn has a background in high-tech advertising and marketing; she wrote advertising for Digital Equipment Corporation in the 1970s and was Director of Advertising at Microsoft in 1985. She is a graduate of the Clarion Workshop and is on the board of directors of the Clarion West Writers Workshop. Writing A collection of her short stories, ''Stable Strategies and Others'' (2004, published by Tachyon Publications), was nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award and short-listed for the James Tiptree, Jr. Award and the World Fantasy Award. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicola Griffith
Nicola Griffith (; born 30 September 1960) is a British-American novelist, essayist, and teacher. She has won the Washington State Book Award, Nebula Award, James Tiptree, Jr. Award, World Fantasy Award and six Lambda Literary Awards. Personal life Early life Griffith was born 30 September 1960 in Leeds, to Margaret Mary and Eric Percival Griffith.Griffith, Nicola (2007). ''And Now We Are Going to Have a Party, Volume 1: Limb of Satan''. Seattle: Payseur & Schmidt. Her parents—whom she describes as wanting "to belong to the middle of the middle class … to fit in" —reared Griffith and her four sisters in the Catholic faith. Griffith's earliest surviving literary efforts include an illustrated booklet she was encouraged to create to prevent her from making trouble among her fellow nursery school students. At age eleven she won a BBC student poetry prize and read aloud her winning work for radio broadcast. As a pre-teen, Griffith felt same-sex attractions, and by some ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daryl Gregory
Daryl Gregory (born 1965) is an American science fiction, fantasy and comic book author. Gregory is a 1988 alumnus of the Michigan State University Clarion science fiction workshop, and won the 2009 Crawford Award for his novel ''Pandemonium''. Personal life Daryl Gregory was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, with his two sisters. He graduated from Illinois State University in 1987 with majors in English and theater. That same year, he married Kathleen Bieschke. After graduation, he taught high school in Michigan for three years, before moving to Salt Lake City, when Bieschke got a job at University of Utah. Bieschke then was hired by Penn State, and the couple moved to State College, where Gregory was employed by Minitab. The couple divorced in 2016. They have two adult children, Emma and Ian.Town&Gown Magazine, April 2012. For several years Gregory lived on the west coast, in Oakland, California, Seattle, Washington, and Piedmont, California, and in 2021 moved back to State ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gavin Grant (editor)
Gavin J. Grant is a science fiction editor and writer. He runs Small Beer Press along with his wife Kelly Link. In addition, he has been the editor of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet since 1996 and, from 2003 to 2008, was co-editor of the Year's Best Fantasy and Horror anthology series along with Link and Ellen Datlow. Their 2004 anthology was awarded the Bram Stoker Award for best horror anthology. He moved to the United States from Scotland in 1991. He is married to Kelly Link and lives with her in Northampton, Massachusetts. References External links *Gavin J. Grant'sonline fiction at Free Speculative Fiction OnlineHow to Start a Small Pressan article by Grant at ''Strange Horizons ''Strange Horizons'' is an online speculative fiction magazine. It also features speculative poetry and nonfiction in every issue, including reviews, essays, interviews, and roundtables. History and profile It was launched in September 2000, and ...'' Print editors American book publi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theodora Goss
Theodora Goss (born September 30, 1968) is a Hungarian-American fiction writer and poet. Her writing has been nominated for major awards, including the Nebula, Locus, Mythopoeic, World Fantasy, and Seiun Awards. Her short fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, including Year's Best volumes. Biography Theodora Goss was born in Hungary and immigrated to the United States as a child.Press Theodora Goss web page. Retrieved 17 April 2018."Theodora Goss", ''Contemporary Authors Online'' (2008) Gale Biography In Context, Gale, Detroit She received her from the |
Gregory Frost
Gregory Frost (born May 13, 1951) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy, and directs a fiction writing workshop at Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. He received his Bachelor's degree from the University of Iowa. A graduate of the Clarion Workshop, he has been invited back as instructor several times, including the first session following its move to the University of California at San Diego in 2007. He is also active in the Interstitial Arts Foundation. Author Orson Scott Card called Frost's novel ''Tain'' "a marvelous straightforward retelling of an ancient national myth." He has also done research for non-fiction television (The Learning Channel, Discovery Channel) and acted in a couple of independent horror movies. His initial vocation was as an artist. Gregory Frost is a founding partner of The Liars Club, a networking group of professionals in publishing and other aspects of entertainment that includes Jonathan Maberry, Jon McGoran, Kelly Sim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
