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"Image of a notebook, with a picture of a person writing and the date November 13th, 2025 circled. Text says Novel Writing Workshop Applications Due!"

Get that coffee ready! Applications for our 2026 Novel Writing Workshop close tomorrow night (11/13).

Apply here: www.clarionwest.org/clarion-west...

Image of a woman reading a book and smiling. Novel writing workshop scholarships.

Novel writing workshop scholarships! Don’t let the cost of tuition keep you from applying! For financial aid, we have: Reduced-rate tuition; anyone can opt-in. Two scholarships for writers of the Global Majority (PGM) or those identifying as Black, Indigenous, or People of Color (BIPOC) One full-tuition Flores Scholarship for a student who identifies as Latinx/e. Get those writing muscles into gear! Applications are due November 13th, 2025.

Interested in our novel workshop, but concerned about the financial commitment? Don't count yourself out! Thanks to generous donors, we have three full-tuition scholarships available.

We're excited to see our next cohort! Applications due November 13th, 2025.
www.clarionwest.org/clarion-west...

"Original art image of pair of eyes overlooking a red sun and green mountain. Text says the Bushwick Book Club Seattle presents the Disposessed by Ursula K. Le Guin. Saturday November 15th 2025 at 7:30 PM. Hugo House"

Clarion West is teaming up with Bushwick Book Club Seattle for their performance of original music inspired by Ursula Le Guin's The Dispossessed! The show will be Saturday, November 15th at the Hugo House.

More on the event here: thebushwickbookclubseattle.com/event/origin...

Sharing this heartbreaking news about Celeste Rita Baker (CW '19). Her warmth and voice, love and mentorship will be greatly missed.

Hole in the Sky: A Deep Dives Conversation with Daniel H. Wilson and Nisi Shawl Join us at this launch event for science-fiction author and roboticist Daniel H. Wilson’s new novel Hole in the Sky, pitched as an alien first contact story set on a Cherokee reservation.

Or catch them both in-person with @nisishawl.bsky.social tomorrow at 7pm at the @spl.org, Central Location! www.clarionwest.org/event/hole-i...

Native American legends get woven into an alien tale Centuries before the Roswell UFO Incident, Native Americans had their own stories to tell about alien visitations — for example, about the “Sky People” who traveled from the Pleiades st…

Did you catch the Fiction Science Podcast this weekend? @b0yle.bsky.social's Fiction Science Podcast featured Hole in the Sky by @danielhwilsonpdx.bsky.social this week and the two discuss the burning question, "What would we do if the aliens arrived?"

Catch it here: cosmiclog.com/2025/10/13/n...

Congratulations to all of the Ignyte Award Winners and Nominees! Love to see so many alumni in the line-up!

2025 Winner The Ember Award: Sonia Sulaiman

The Ember Award for Unsung Contributions to Genre goes to @soniasulaiman.bsky.social
#2025IgnyteAwards

2025 Winner Outstanding Anthology/Collected Works - THYME TRAVELLERS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF PALESTINIAN SPECULATIVE FICTION edited by Sonia Sulaiman

Congratulations @soniasulaiman.bsky.social on winning the #2025IgnyteAwards in Outstanding Anthology/Collected Works for THYME TRAVELERS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF PALESTINIAN SPECULATIVE FICTION

2025 Winner Outstanding Short Story: WE WILL TEACH YOU HOW TO READ | WE WILL TEACH YOU HOW TO READ by Caroline M. Yoachim

@carolinemyoachim.bsky.social's WE WILL TEACH YOU HOW TO READ | WE WILL TEACH YOU HOW TO READ wins the #2025IgnyteAwards in Outstanding Short Story
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/we-w...

The text on an abstract purple background reads: Clarion West logo with "2026 Novel Writing Workshop" Apply now through November 13, 2025 2026 Instructor Karen Lord with image of the author. March 9-November 23, 2026 Virtual Workshop

Applications are now open for the 2026 Novel Writing Workshop with @drkarenlord.bsky.social!

Read more & apply before November 13! Link in bio.

#novelwritingworkshop #clarionwest

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If you enjoy science fiction that explores indigenous futures and robots, you won't want to miss this @clarionwest.bsky.social Deep Dives conversation.

With @nisishawl.bsky.social, moderated by Geekwire's @b0yle.bsky.social.

The team at @bannedbooksweek.bsky.social has a special request for readers to take one action to help defend books from censorship on Saturday, October 11: bannedbooksweek.org/let-freedom-...

It's not too late to support and participate in #BannedBooksWeek!

Watch this terrific interview with the Banned Books Week honorary chair @georgetakei.bsky.social & consider going to your indie bookstore to pick up a few banned books.

Hole in the Sky: A Deep Dives Conversation with Daniel H. Wilson and Nisi Shawl Join us at this launch event for science-fiction author and roboticist Daniel H. Wilson’s new novel Hole in the Sky, pitched as an alien first contact story set on a Cherokee reservation.

The book draws on Daniel’s unique background as both a threat forecaster for the United States Air Force and a Cherokee Nation citizen. It asks probing questions about nonhuman intelligence, the Western mindset, and humans’ understanding of reality.

www.clarionwest.org/event/hole-i...

Abstract background with image of author Daniel H. Wilson and Daniel's newest book, Hole in the Sky. Special call out reads: Now Optioned for Netflix Text reads: Hole In The Sky, A Conversation with Daniel H. Wilson and Nisi Shawl, Moderated by Alan Boyle. October 16, 2025, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM, Seattle Central Library.

Abstract background with a Deep Dives Author Conversation Series logo with a book and the Seattle Space needle. Photos of authors Daniel H. Wilson and Cory Doctorow. Text reads: Hole in the Sky, A Conversation with Daniel H. Wilson on October 16, 2025. and Enshittification and the Rot Economy: A Conversation with Cory Doctorow on October 22, 2025. Logos of event partners include: The Seattle Public Library, 4Culture, and Third Place Books

@danielhwilsonpdx.bsky.social's new novel, Hole in the Sky, is the center of our Deep Dives conversation on October 16 at the Seattle Central Library... and it's been snapped up by Netflix and Aggregate Films!

Join us for the kick-off to our Deep Dives conversation series on October 16!

Most Banned Books of The Year List Includes Numerous Genre Titles and Authors - Reactor Stephen King alone had 87 of his titles banned somewhere in the U.S.

Banned Books Week highlights the importance of free access to information, as well as challenges to that access in the United States. PEN America's list of the Most Banned Books of the Year includes several genre fiction titles:

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Novel Writing Workshop Q&A - YouTube Meet some members of our inaugural Clarion West Novel Writing Workshop as they answer questions about their experiences, and offer advice on applying!

This Novel Writing Workshop Q&A is broken up into 7 parts to make it easy to find the answers you're looking for: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Novel Writing Workshop Q&A - YouTube Meet some members of our inaugural Clarion West Novel Writing Workshop as they answer questions about their experiences, and offer advice on applying!

Six students from our 2025 Novel Writing Workshop introduce themselves and describe the books they've been working on this year. Each student answers questions about their experiences and offers advice on applying!

Novel Writing Workshop Q&A - YouTube Meet some members of our inaugural Clarion West Novel Writing Workshop as they answer questions about their experiences, and offer advice on applying!

Thinking about applying for the 2026 Novel Writing Workshop with @drkarenlord.bsky.social?

Applications open October 13 and close on November 13. Get ready to apply with this excellent Q&A led by Clarion West board member and alumni @remymura.bsky.social

On Novel-ing: Clarion West’s Novel Writing Workshop (2025) Seven months ago, I was accepted into the first cohort of Clarion West’s Novel Writing Workshop. (Or NWW, as we’ve lovingly acronymn-ized it.) Seven life-changing months filled with lec…

Ahem...might I offer you some joy, in these trying times? Applications for @clarionwest.bsky.social's 2026 Novel Writing Workshop open soon. So, I wrote about my application experience & programmatic takeaways, thus far.

If you're thinking about applying? Do it. ✊🏾

jencbrown.com/2025/09/27/o...

Cory Doctorow in conversation with Ed Zitron Join Cory Doctorow (Enshittification), Ed Zitron (Better Offline), and moderator Whitney Beltrán for a discussion of how reckless tech policy created an enshittogenic environment that allowed the…

On October 22, listen to Cory Doctorow and @edzitron.com discuss how reckless tech policy that is allowing the worst people in our most structurally important corporations to make everything worse - and what we can do about it!

www.clarionwest.org/event/2025-d...

Hole in the Sky: A Deep Dives Conversation with Daniel H. Wilson and Nisi Shawl Join us at this launch event for science-fiction author and roboticist Daniel H. Wilson’s new novel Hole in the Sky, pitched as an alien first contact story set on a Cherokee reservation.

Join us October 16 to launch Daniel H. Wilson’s new novel Hole in the Sky, pitched as an alien first contact story set on a Cherokee reservation.

Daniel is in conversation with author Nisi Shawl, moderated by GeekWire’s @b0yle.bsky.social.

www.clarionwest.org/event/hole-i...

Text over abstract blue background reads: Deep Dives Author Conversation Series A Program of Clarion West 7-8:30 PM Seattle Public Library. Registration is free thanks to the King County 4Culture Public Access Grant. October 16, 2025 Hole in the Sky: A conversation with Daniel H. Wilson & Nisi Shawl. Moderated by Alan Boyle. This section of the image shows a photo of Daniel H. Wilson in a winter beanie and dark glasses. October 22, 2025 Enshittification and the Rot Economy: A Conversation with Cory Doctorow & Ed Zitron. Moderated by Whitney Beltran. This section shows an photo of Cory Doctorow in orange glasses and a striped shirt. The Clarion West Logo, Seattle Public Library Logo, and 4Culture logo are included.

The Deep Dive Author Conversation Series with
@danielhwilsonpdx.bsky.social on October 16th and Cory Doctorow on October 22nd was made possible with the King County 4Culture Public Free Access Grant!

#sciencefiction #authortalks #authorconversations #clarionwest #2025DeepDivesSeries

Remembering Vonda by Jeanne Gomoll, Stephanie A. Smith Award-winning SFF author Vonda N. McIntyre died April 1, 2019. The world lost a force of nature, a brilliant, kind, generous, fiercely talented artist. Friends, colleagues, admirers, fans all pay tribute to a radiant life here. McIntyre’s oeuvre includes Dreamsnake (Hugo & Nebula award winner, ’78), The Moon and the Sun (Nebula ’98; & movie, awaiting release); plus stories, novelizations & tie-ins, including Star Trek novel, The Entropy Effect. She founded the Clarion West workshop and was a “fairy godmother” to 100s of students; a quiet, tireless feminist, Kentucky-born McIntyre moved to Seattle & became a life-long resident, as well as a prolific creator of crochet topoplogy; McIntyre also collaborated with Ursula K. Le Guin, and was a founding member of the Book View Cafe, an author-owned publishing cooperative. McIntyre both shaped and nurtured the SF/F community; as her friend Jane Hawkins has said “we shall not see her like again.”

Remembering Vonda
by Jeanne Gomoll, Stephanie A. Smith

Award-winning SFF author Vonda N. McIntyre died April 1, 2019. The world lost a force of nature, a brilliant, kind, generous, fiercely talented artist.

Hole in the Sky: A Deep Dives Conversation with Daniel H. Wilson and Nisi Shawl Join us at this launch event for science-fiction author and roboticist Daniel H. Wilson’s new novel Hole in the Sky, pitched as an alien first contact story set on a Cherokee reservation.

Pitched as an alien first contact story set on a Cherokee reservation. Daniel is in conversation with author Nisi Shawl, moderated by GeekWire’s Alan Boyle.

Tickets available now! www.clarionwest.org/event/hole-i...

#authorconversations #sciencefiction #danielhwilson #nisishawl #FirstContact

Abstract background with photos of authors Daniel H. Wilson and Nisi Shawl and moderator Alan Boyle. Text reads: Hole In The Sky, A Conversation with Daniel H. Wilson and Nisi Shawl, Moderated by Alan Boyle. October 16, 2025, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM, Seattle Central Library.

On October 16: Hole in the Sky: A Deep Dives Conversation with @danielhwilsonpdx.bsky.social and @nisishawl.bsky.social to discuss science-fiction author and roboticist Daniel H. Wilson’s new novel Hole in the Sky.

At @spl.org: Free tickets are supported by the 4Culture Public Access Grant!

Hole in the Sky: A Deep Dives Conversation with Daniel H. Wilson and Nisi Shawl Join us at this launch event for science-fiction author and roboticist Daniel H. Wilson’s new novel Hole in the Sky, pitched as an alien first contact story set on a Cherokee reservation.

Find more information about both events in our Deep Dives series and register: www.clarionwest.org/upcoming-eve...

Abstract background with photos of authors Daniel H. Wilson and Nisi Shawl and moderator Alan Boyle. An image of Daniel's book, "Hole in the Sky" is shown with the Clarion West and Deep Dives logo. Text reads: Hole in the Sky, A Conversation with Daniel H. Wilson and Nisi Shawl, Moderated by Alan Boyle. October 16, 2025, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM, Seattle Central Library.

Abstract background with photos of author Cory Doctorow with conversation partner Ed Zitron and moderator Whitney Beltrán. Text reads: Enshittification and the Rot Economy, A Conversation with Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron, Moderated by Whitney Beltrán. October 22, 2025, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM, Seattle Central Library.

We are pleased to present the 2025 Deep Dive Author Conversation Series with @danielhwilsonpdx.bsky.social on October 16th and Cory Doctorow on October 22nd!

Both events are free to the public or upgrade your ticket and join us for a VIP reception before the event!

Tickets available now!

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