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Background image shows a crescent moon over a futuristic city. Above, text reads: Clarion West Write-a-thon 2025. Center, text reads: Week 2 Favorite Line: To be mindful is to be conscious of how our words and our actions ripple and echo in spaces. Rochita Loenen-Ruiz

A writer’s fave line from the second and final week of the Write-a-thon!

Tomorrow’s the very last day to donate to our summer fundraiser! Visit clarionwest.org/writeathon. #writeathon #writeathon2025

Background image shows a crescent moon over a futuristic city. Above, text reads: Clarion West Writers Workshop. Summer of Science Fiction & Fantasy. In the center are two circular headshots, of Martha Wells and Kate Elliott. Below, text reads: Martha Wells and Kate Elliott in Conversation. July 30. 6-7:30PM PT. Virtual Event.

Join us online tomorrow for the final event of our summer reading series: a virtual conversation between @marthawells.com and @kateelliottsff.bsky.social, followed by an audience Q&A! RSVP at clarionwest.org/events.

Summer of Science Fiction & Fantasy The Clarion West Summer Reading Series will be held virtually and streamed live over Zoom during the Six-Week Workshop. Join us for our final event, a conversation between Martha Wells and Kate…

Tomorrow (Wednesday the 30th) Summer of Science Fiction & Fantasy: Martha Wells in conversation with Kate Elliott
July 30 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Register at this link: www.clarionwest.org/event/summer...

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Our heartfelt thanks to the Sherman Family Foundation for donating a $2,500 matching challenge to the 2025 Write-a-thon. We’ve officially reached our matching goal! #writeathon #writeathon2025

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We’ve reached the last day of the Write-a-thon! In the past two weeks, over 100 participating writers have written tens of thousands of words, while raising over $15,000 to support resources and community for developing writers.

We’re so grateful for all of the support! #writeathon #writeathon2025

Background image shows a crescent moon over a futuristic city. Above, text reads: Clarion West Write-a-thon 2025. Center, text reads: Week 1 Favorite Line: "’Is he gone?’ I don't know what I hope to hear. That's he's downstairs waiting to talk to me? Or that he's left, he's let me be again? That he's left me again." Ed Punk

Background image shows a crescent moon over a futuristic city. Above, text reads: Clarion West Write-a-thon 2025. Center, text reads: Week 1 Most Words Down: 9,684. Ed Punk

A fave line from Write-a-thon participant Ed Punk, who also wrote the most words out of over 100 writers in week one!

Haven’t supported the Write-a-thon yet? It’s not too late! Visit clarionwest.org/writeathon to donate to the fundraiser or sponsor a writer. #writeathon #writeathon2025

Background image shows a crescent moon over a futuristic city. Above, text reads: Clarion West x Two Hour Transport. Center, image shows a monster reading at a microphone for an audience of fellow monsters and aliens, on a stage floating in space. Below, text reads: Summer Open Mic at the Magnuson Park Amphitheater. July 26. In-person event. Signups 4:30-4:55PM PT. Readings 5PM-7PM PT.

Tomorrow! If you're in Seattle, join us for an in-person open mic with Two Hour Transport! We’ll be at the Magnuson Park Amphitheater (6344 NE 74th St), from 5-7PM Pacific. Reader signups start at 4:30PM.

Everyone is welcome! Register for this and more upcoming events at clarionwest.org/events.

Make an impact with your #writeathon donations! Visit givebutter.com/2025cw-writeathon/marneechua. #writeathon2025

Background image shows a crescent moon over a futuristic city. Above, text reads: Clarion West Write-a-thon 2025. Center, text reads: Week 1 Favorite Line: "I think you miss my point. I'm saying that posthumans are a form of technology. We are a natural resource that has been squandered on baseline human problems." Evan J. Peterson

We love seeing your fave lines from Write-a-thon week one!

Not participating this year? You can still visit clarionwest.org/writeathon to donate to the fundraiser or sponsor a writer! #writeathon #writeathon2025

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Announcing our third Write-a-thon Bonus Q&A! Award-winning author and former CW instructor @charliejane.bsky.social joins us tomorrow, July 24, from 6-7PM Pacific on Zoom.

This is a free community event, and everyone is welcome! Register at clarionwest.org/events. #writeathon #writeathon2025

Background image shows a crescent moon over a futuristic city. Above, text reads: Clarion West Write-a-thon 2025. Center, text reads: Week 1 Favorite Line: "Joe responded with the grandmothers of Yorkshire mending all ills with a cup of tea and Carson answered with his own grandmother’s smile.” Lezlie Kinyon

Thanks for sharing your fave lines from Write-a-thon week one with us! So many awesome projects in the works!

If you’re not participating this year, you can still visit clarionwest.org/writeathon to donate to the fundraiser or sponsor a writer. #writeathon #writeathon2025

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Join us today, at the Brooklyn Public Library’s Park Slope Branch or virtually, for this hybrid event! Two of our 2025 Six-Week Workshop instructors will share their wisdom and answer your questions. RSVP at clarionwest.org/events!

2025 Write-a-thon Are you ready to write, connect, and unlock amazing rewards?

Good news + ways to make a difference:
It's @clarionwest.bsky.social annual Write-A-Thon fundraiser; long story short, this is an incredible organization that changed my life for the better. Would you please donate to them this week? My personal goal is to raise 500: givebutter.com/2025cw-write...

When you support the Write-a-thon, you can get rewarded with new reading material! #writeathon #writeathon2025

Background image shows a crescent moon over a futuristic city. Above, text reads: Clarion West Write-a-thon 2025. Center, text reads: Week 1 Favorite Line: "Batista’s guests have risen as if the national anthem were playing over a home game, but it’s just a single gunshot and the body of a dead wolf; my pledge of allegiance to our town." Paris Soto

A #writeathon participant shares their fave line from last week! Visit clarionwest.org/writeathon to donate to the fundraiser or sponsor a writer. #writeathon2025

The Write-a-thon is our annual summer fundraiser! It's a writing marathon: participants pledge a word count goal, find supporters to back that goal with donations, and then spend two weeks writing toward that goal. You can learn more here: clarionwest.org/writeathon

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We’ve made it through the first week of the Write-a-thon! We love hearing about everyone’s projects and progress so far. Keep up the great work! #writeathon #writeathon2025

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Calling Seattle area writers! Join us in person tomorrow at Third Place Commons for a free community writing session! Make some progress on your current Write-a-thon project, or try something new with one of our prompts.

Visit clarionwest.org/upcoming-events to RSVP! #writeathon #writeathon2025

Carlos Hernandez and Diana Pho Discuss Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing | Brooklyn Public Library Join Diana Pho, editor of Erewhon Books, and award-winning writer Carlos Hernandez as they answer your questions about the state of science fiction and fantasy publishing today. Have a novel you've fi...

Don't miss a great conversation and Q&A at the @bklynlibrary.bsky.social and streaming on Facebook! RSVP here: www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/car...

Artist image of a hazy city at night with a quarter moon at the top overlaid with text that reads: Clarion West Writers Workshop, Summer of Science Fiction & Fantasy, July 22 - 6-7:30 PM EDT - 3-4:30 PDT, Carlos Hernandez & Diana Pho in Conversation. Hybrid Event At Brooklyn Public Library, Park Slope Branch, 431 6th Ave Brooklyn, NY 11215 and streaming online on Facebook. Photos of the speakers are included, a photo of Carlos Hernandez and Diana Pho.

🌟The Clarion West Summer of Science Fiction & Fantasy Continues 🌟

Next Tuesday, July 22 6-7:30 p.m. Eastern/3-4:30 p.m. Pacific, join Clarion West and the @bklynlibrary.bsky.social‬ for a Hybrid Event!
Carlos Hernandez & @dianapho.bsky.social in Conversation.
#brooklynpubliclibrary #authorevents

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Story prompt: Mysterious noises come from the neighbors’ place. Clanks, machinery, whirring. When the noise abates one night, they’ve left their door open. What’s inside?

Not in the Write-a-thon? Support our cause at givebutter.com/2025cw-writeathon. #writeathon #writeathon2025

Write-a-thon donations of any size can come with rewards! #writeathon #writeathon2025

Starting in one hour!

On a purple background with pink and green circles, text reads: Clarion West Write-a-thon 2025. Join us for an Online Community Writing Session! With Minal Hajratwala. Clarion West alum and Unicorn Author Club founder. July 16. Virtual event. 5PM-6PM PT.

Our next Write-a-thon Writing Session is happening online tomorrow! Bring your WIP, and join Clarion West alum and Unicorn Author Club founder Minal Hajratwala from 5-6PM Pacific. We’ll have prompts, too!

This is a free event. Visit clarionwest.org/events to register. #writeathon #writeathon2025

Make a donation, get a movie review from Carlie St. George! #writeathon #writeathon2025

Supporting our #writeathon can be rewarding! Check out what you can earn by donating to Curtis C. Chen's campaign! #writeathon2025

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Announcing our second Write-a-thon Bonus Q&A! Award-winning author and former CW instructor @sarahpinsker.bsky.social joins us tomorrow, July 15, from 6-7PM Pacific on Zoom.

This is a free community event, and everyone is welcome! Register at clarionwest.org/events. #writeathon #writeathon2025

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Still not sure what goals to set for your Write-a-thon? We’ve got some ideas:

● Write for 15 minutes a day
● Write 250 words a day
● Write a story a week
● Revise a story or chapter a week

It’s not too late to join us! Visit clarionwest.org/writeathon. #writeathon #writeathon2025

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Story prompt: You wake up one day, and there’s a door in your house that wasn’t there before. What’s behind it? Where does it lead?

Feel free to share below!

The Write-a-thon starts tomorrow! Visit clarionwest.org/writeathon to join or donate. #writeathon #writeathon2025

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Story prompt: Find an inanimate object, then imagine it’s alive. Write from its perspective. What does it notice? What does it yearn for?

You can share below, and then guess what the others’ objects are!

Ready for more creativity? Visit clarionwest.org/writeathon. #writeathon #writeathon2025