Clarion Workshop

The Clarion Workshop is an American six-week workshop for aspiring science fiction and fantasy writers. Originally an outgrowth of Damon Knight's and Kate Wilhelm's Milford Writer's Conference, held at their home in Milford, Pennsylvania, 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, the Clarion Foundation received an anonymous gift of $100,000 to found an endowment funding the workshop.

The Clarion Workshop events for 2020 and 2021 were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and students selected for 2020 attended in 2022.

Other Clarion Workshops Independently operated workshops which share the Clarion name and follow its founding principles include: Clarion West Writers Workshop, founded in Seattle, Washington in 1971 by Vonda N. McIntyre. It has been held annually since 1984. Clarion South Writers Workshop was held at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. It was founded in 2004 and ran biennially to 2011. In 2009, Clarion South lost its venue, although the workshop was held that year. In 2011, Clarion South organizers revealed that future workshops were "on hold indefinitely".

Clarion Workshop

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