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and

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writers. Originally an outgrowth of

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's and

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's Milford Writers' Conference, held at their home in Milford, Pennsylvania, United States, it was founded in 1968 by

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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'',

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, 2005 In 1972, the workshop moved to Michigan State University. It moved again, in 2006, to the

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.Barry Jagoda
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Clarion Foundation
received 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

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, with the students selected for 2020 slated to attend in 2022.

Other Clarion Workshops

Independently operated workshops which share the Clarion name and follow its founding principles include: *

Clarion West Writers Workshop Clarion West Writers Workshop is an intensive six-week program for writers preparing for professional careers in science fiction and fantasy. It runs annually from late June through the end of July. The workshop is limited to 18 students per year. ...

, founded in Seattle, Washington in 1971 by Vonda N. McIntyre. It has been held annually since 1984. * Clarion South Writers Workshop was held at

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in Brisbane, Australia. It was founded in 2004 and ran biennially. In 2009, Clarion South lost its venue, although the workshop was held that year. In March 2011, Clarion South organizers announced that future workshops were "on hold indefinitely".

References

External links

Clarion official website
MSS 681. ttp://libraries.ucsd.edu/collections/sca/ Special Collections & Archives UC San Diego Library. {{SpecFicWorkshops American writers' organizations Creative writing programs Science fiction organizations 1968 establishments in Pennsylvania Clarion University of Pennsylvania Michigan State University University of California, San Diego Projects established in 1968

Other Clarion Workshops

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