Clarion West

You still have time to apply to attend the 2012 session of our intensive six-week workshop. All application materials must get to us by midnight on March 1, 2012. If you apply on February 23 or after, we recommend that you send those materials via email to make sure we receive them by March 1. You'll find more information on the workshop here, and application instructions here.

February 24 -26 you can attend Potlatch 21 at the Best Western Executive Inn in Seattle. Your membership in this small, literary convention will help support Clarion West, and you can also participate in our annual scholarship fund auction Saturday evening, February 25. Since its start in 1992, Potlatch has raised over $50,000 for us. Coming to Potlatch is a wonderful way to meet informally with Clarion West alumni, instructors, volunteers, and other CW community members. To learn more, visit the Potlatch site.

Our early deadline for 2012 Clarion West Writers Workshop applications is midnight of February 10. When we receive your application by midnight of February 10, you pay a discounted application fee of $30.

Our final deadline for 2012 Clarion West Writers Workshop applications is midnight of March 1, 2012. The full application fee is $40.

Learn more about the workshop here, and find full application instructions here.

You can find quick updates on Clarion West on Twitter by following our hashtag. That's #clarionwest; enter it in the search field when you're signed in to Twitter and you'll see what we mean.

The Clarion West Facebook Group helps CW community members with Facebook accounts stay on top of news and events. Contest announcements, workshop reports, and other posts about the Clarion West community appear on the Clarion West Group page. (You'll need to be logged in to access the page.) We'd love for you to join.

The writing portion of the 2011 Clarion West Write-a-thon ended Friday, July 29. You can still make donations in support of our participants' efforts.

This year's Write-a-thon has been wildly successful and lots of fun. We set goals for the event that have been met and greatly surpassed: 142 writers--we were hoping for 100; 377 sponsors--over 100 sponsors over our goal of 270. Donations have arrived from 15 different countries. Participants talk about their achievements on their LiveJournal and FaceBook sites: stories written, chapters revised, poems submitted, experiments tried...this has been a very productive time. We're proud to have been part of all the stretching and learning the 2011 Write-a-thon led to, and very, very grateful to our wonderful writers, sponsors, volunteers, and staff who've made it possible. Thank you--and if you've been meaning to chip in, now's the time, and here's the link.