From 2010-2021, I served as Director of the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop at UCSD. Founded in 1968, Clarion moved to UCSD in 2007, became a part of the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination, and is now under the umbrella of the Arts and Humanities Division. The more than a decade I spent anchoring Clarion at UCSD in a time when there was little institutional support for this important futures project changed my life. It led to productive intersections with the transdivisional Futures Studies research I was leading in the Ethnic Studies and Literature Departments at the intersection of Social Sciences and Arts and Humanities. In recognition of my service, I was honored to receive the Science Fiction Research Association’s 2023 Thomas D. Clareson Award, which is presented annually for “outstanding service activities--promotion of SF teaching and study, editing, reviewing, editorial writing, publishing, organizing meetings, mentoring, and leadership in SF/fantasy organizations.”

LINKS

Find out more about Clarion here on the Clarion website

Here is a link to the Clarion Workshop Archives at UCSD.

From Jeff Vandermeer's blog, here is a list of some of the best sentences written by each writer at Clarion 2014. 

Every brilliant piece of writing advice from Clarion 2012 by Sam Miller can be found here. 

Here is Haralambi Markov's "What Clarion Means to a Minority Writer"

Here is Lauren Naturale's "4 Reasons to Apply to Clarion Right Now"

"UC San Diego’s Clarion Workshop Teaches Promising Sci-Fi, Fantasy Talent," KPBS, 19 July 2017. 

Theodore McCombs, "A Clarion Field Report"