Applications Accepted
January 2 - March 1, 2009

Your application, application fee, and submission stories must be received by 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time on March 1.  Late applications will not be accepted. 

To apply you must submit a workshop application form,  two short stories, a scholarship application (if applicable), and the application fee. All are submitted online using a registration service called RegOnline.

The application form asks for contact information, a brief summary of your educational background, and a few details about your writing habits and goals. You may submit a scholarship  application along with your workshop application if you wish.

Admission to the workshop is based on the promise of the applicant's writing at its present stage. In addition to the application you must submit two complete short stories, each between 2,500 words and 6,000 words in length. The stories should represent your best fiction work to date.  Although skills acquired or developed at Clarion are useful in other kinds of writing, Clarion is a short-story writing workshop, so please do not send screenplays, poetry, essays, or portions of a novel.

The Review Process

Applications are judged by a review panel composed of the current Clarion anchor team of instructors (for 2009, Elizabeth Hand and Paul Park); the UCSD Program Director, Donald Wesling; and one or more members of the Clarion Foundation Board.

The review panel selects 18 applicants and a few waitlist students. All applicants are notified of their status by late March. The review panel does not comment or give feedback on stories.

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