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Back to Journal  « 250th Submission - Story to MF&SF | The Clarion Conundrum 2006 | Narrating for Escape Pod » The Clarion Conundrum 2006 December 6, 2005 Looks like I might actually be able to attend (or at least for the first time apply to) a workshop next year. I just got the dates for Clarion West from Neile Graham, so I can start weighing my options, seeing whose weddings I'll be missing. But the side by side comparision for 2006...
So far the dates don't make either Clarion more difficult and it'll be near impossible to choose based solely on the great set of instructors at each workshop. Delany, Haldeman, and McHugh alone are among my top ten favorite SF novelists, and I'm a big fan of the short fiction of Nalo Hopkinson and Kelly Link (especially the Link story I read out loud). Right now I'm leaning toward East (plain old unscented Clarion) because it's the closest distance-wise and the furthest away timewise, which will give me one more week to finish projects and get ahead with Telltale. I've included Odyssey above, even though I haven't read enough about it yet to determine whether I'll be considering it along with the two Clarions. I've been wanting to go to this thing since before I sent my first submission out in 1998. Could 2006 be my year? Filed under Clarion, Journal, Prose and Poetry  
Comments: Discuss this entry at LiveJournalDo it, dude. All three line-ups look really great, though I'm naturally partial to Clarion Unscented. If it was me, I wouldn't pass up the opportunity to learn from Delany. Or Kress. Or Dozois. Or Link. But hey, that's me. Posted by: Jason Erik Lundberg at December 6, 2005 10:29 PM 
I think I'd pass up the opportunity, though that's only because I'm easily intimidated. But I'm fighting my fears and keeping East my first choice by a nose. Still, I workshopped with Maureen McHugh as Cajun Sushi Hamster in Cleveland, and I know what a great teacher she was just in giving critiques. Alex. Posted by: alex at December 7, 2005 8:50 AM
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Alex Wilson writes fiction and comics in Carrboro, NC. His work has appeared/will appear in Asimov's Science Fiction, The Rambler, Weird Tales, The Florida Review, Futurismic, Shimmer, ChiZine, FutureQuake, Pif, and Dragon. Locus Magazine has called him a "promising new writer," and Publishers Weekly also has nice things to say. Alex runs the audiobook project/podcast Telltale Weekly and the writer wiki Guidevines. He publishes the minicomic/zine Inconsequential Art. He is a 2006 Clarion graduate.  
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