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The Seventh Week Clarion West Fall Workshop Report 2015 The Seventh Week clarion west fall workshop report 2015 Another summer has passed and another CHALLENGES AND Six-Week Workshop has occurred, suc- ceeded, triumphed. Once again, eighteen REWARDS strangers converged on a discrete region of space-time, then, catalyzed by the genius of six spectacular instructors, shared, NEILE GRAHAM (CW 96) exchanged, fused, diverged, stewed, strived, WORKSHOP DIRECTOR matured, and sparked. A new family of writers has emerged—a Clarion West cohort that is as brilliant and talented as AND HUW EVANS (CW 12) its predecessors, but unique unto itself. All Clarion West workshops are WORKSHOP ADMINISTRATOR unique; each workshop’s challenges, how- ever, are challenging in their own ways. And this summer brimmed with them. To start, we had to learn our way around a lovely but new-to-us sorority house. Before we picked up the keys, we'd only walked through the house twice. Though we were sure it would work, it was hard to feel certain until we checked out all of the YES! Awe-struck Leo Vladimirsky bedrooms, set up the instructor space, and gives Clarion West's new house got the classroom tables optimally aligned. two thumbs up. Around move-in time, we realized that we were lacking a few vital items (food! delayed when the U.S. visa system had desks! a whiteboard! and especially fans, a computer glitch that stranded her in fans, and more fans, given the weather Germany for nearly a week, while another predictions), so we published a wish list. had to leave a week early to be home in Suddenly, board member Tod McCoy Nigeria for a visa interview so he could re- was delivering bounties of donations on turn to the U.S. for a fall fellowship. Both an almost daily basis. Our wonderful, students attempted to attend the work- supportive community came through for shop via Skype–with intermittent success. us once again, leaping at the opportunity Barely were (all but one of ) the class to pitch in and purchase what we needed. members settled into the house when Each student got a fan and a desk, and our Andy Duncan challenged them to write food budget (this is the first year Clarion about the weirdest experiences of their West paid directly for housecleaning and lives. Sadly, they were prohibited from the students' food) got a bit of relief. writing about what they were experienc- Before we knew it our cook (now ing right then–having gathered, in the Clarion West's and not the house's), Joe basement of a sorority house in Seattle, to Schindler, was setting up the kitchen with begin one of the most intense experiences the help of Esther Hoffman, our cleaner, of their lives and to face one of the most Clarion West forges friendships... and the students were arriving: first from marvelous, delightful, and weird writers and four-headed fiction-writing India, Nigeria, Australia, and Japan, then they'd ever met. monsters. Top to bottom: Rebecca from Canada and across the U.S. An addi- In their second week of the workshop, Campbell, Nibedita Sen, Julia M. tional arrival was Topher, a black Labrador the students moved forward under Eileen Wetherell, and Monidipa Mondal. retriever, guide dog, and the unofficial Gunn's wise and expert guidance. After 2015 class mascot. some preliminary exercises, she initi- This year brought student visa chal- ated them into full-blown Clarion-style lenges too: one student's arrival was critiquing. They rose spectacularly to the THE SEVENTH WEEK |FALl 2015 | PAGe 1 challenge, stretching their days to greater lengths, while Eileen urged them to claim new literary ground. Tobias Buckell led the students through their third week with the example of his own hard work and enthusiastic dedication. The students dug deeper, both in their writing and their critiques. They survived Seattle's ongoing heat wave by upping their game in every way, and the focus was on plot, plot, plot. The workshop itself had a brief crisis when, two days before she was due to arrive in Seattle, instructor Connie Willis Instructor Tobias Buckell is not at all perturbed by the fact that the entire class wishes to eat his brains. had a fall that necessitated surgery. Luck- challenges: Neile had to leave the work- ily, Clarion West alumna and award- shop twice, for a few days each, at crisis winning author Susan Palwick gener- points in her father's final illness, while ously agreed to take the helm. This is the Huw had a brand-new daughter at home second year in a row that we’ve had such a (not to mention an almost-three-year- crisis, but also the second time that it was old). But with each other's help, as well as resolved within a few hours. Yet another that of our terrific new workshop assis- proof, like the wish list donations, of how tants Lauren Dixon and Katie Sparrow, wonderful our community is. Susan guided and members of the board and staff and the students through their dreaded fourth community, everything went well. week with grace and authority, helping In fact, everything turned out bril- them to get deeper into their characters liantly: the house was comfortable (and through careful attention to dialogue and quiet!), Joe and Esther did a wonderful job to realistic portrayals of personal interac- keeping the students fed and the house tions. clean, the instructors kept the energy and In the fifth week Nalo Hopkinson class challenges high, and the students brought her energy and intelligent grace wrote and wrote and wrote and played to the class while challenging them to dig and wrote. So much promising fiction was still deeper, taking the students past the given its first look at the world and its first week’s exhaustion and continuing heat critique that everyone was exhausted and wave, and startling new vigor into them. both happy They were still tired, but their stories and sad to see burned with life. the workshop When the final week of the workshop end. arrived, the stalwart students, led by veter- It left us an instructor Cory Doctorow, jumped into looking for- it with both feet, eager, enthusiastic, and ward to seeing equipped with all that they had learned much, much Service dog Topher was over the previous weeks. Cory’s incisive more from this quickly adopted as the class mascot. critiques and focused lectures polished fac- dynamic and Thersa Matsuura experiences ets and honed edges—adding even more talented class. Look out, universe! These four stages of the writing brilliance to the students’ writing as they writers are making waves. Despite the process: inspiration, ecstasy, prepared to rejoin the outside world. challenges, this was a stupendous year. determination, and rumination. On the personal level, we also had (all photos by M. Huw Evans) PAGE 2 | THE SEVENTH WEEK | FALL 2015 The Class of 2015 Back row: Evan J. Peterson, from the United States; Samuel Kolawole, from Nige- ria; Rebecca Campbell, from Canada; Tegan Moore, from the United States; Mi- Clarion West chael Sebastian, from the United States; Leo Vladimirsky, from the United States; Margaret Killjoy, from the United States; Thersa Matsuura, from Japan; Nana Writers Workshop Nkweti, from Cameroon/United States. Board of Directors Middle and front rows: Monidipa Mondal, from India; Garret Johnston, from Vicki N. Saunders | Chair Canada; Dinesh Pulandram, from Australia; Christine Neulieb, from the Unit- Karen G. Anderson | Past Chair ed States; Justin C. Key, from the United States; Julia M. Wetherell, from the Tod McCoy | Vice Chair United States; Nibedita Sen, from India; Jake Stone, from the United States; Dan Trefethen | Treasurer Susan Palwick, instructor. Jeffrey Lemkin | Secretary Elizabeth Bourne • Felicia Gonzalez Dog: Topher. (photo by M. Huw Evans) Phoebe Harris • Nisi Shawl Zola Mumford • Ken Scholes Caroline Bobanick | Executive Director | ex officio Neile Graham | ex officio In Students' Words Workshop "Clarion West was the most fun I've had in years, it Neile Graham | Workshop Director M. Huw Evans | Workshop Administrator was hard, it was exhausting, it was thrilling, it made me so Lauren Dixon | Program Specialist happy, and it made me work." — Julia Wetherell Katie Sparrow | Program Specialist Database "I am not a person who Kate Schaefer | Database Administrator makes many all-or-nothing K. Dawn Plaskon | Database Advisor Suzanne Tompkins | Finance/Database Specialist statements, but I say with complete conviction that Clarion West has been the single most important and far-reaching Communications experience and accomplishment of my writing career. I feel like Kris Millering | Communications Specialist Charlie Bucket finding a golden ticket. I have met some of my Vicki N. Saunders | Art Director Auzin Ahmadi | Copy Editor/Proofreader heroes through Clarion West, and now people are knocking Deb Taber | Copy Editor/Proofreader on my door to publish me. The experience wasn't scary; it was Tom Whitmore | Copy Editor/Proofreader challenging, beautiful, and life-altering." — Evan J. Peterson Erik Owomoyela | Website Manager THE SEVENTH WEEK | FALL 2015| PAGE 3 2015 Reading Series 2016 The 2015 Clarion West Summer Reading Series started off Clarion West strong with a reading from Andy Duncan that skirted the knife’s edge between humor and horror. Eileen Gunn fol- Summer Reading lowed with a story that unveiled the tender love between a starship captain and his science officer. Tobias S. Buckell kept Series Schedule the energy going with his tales of growing up on a boat and how his secret stash of books tipped the vessel forward—and he followed with a story about humans failing a Turing test. Susan Palwick stepped in at the last minute for Connie Willis with her story about damned souls for sale in a gift Eileen Gunn shop.
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