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Many graduates of the Clarion Workshop have become well-known writers. A large number have won major awards, and some have eventually returned to teach at Clarion. A partial list includes:
Distinguished Alumni
Kim Antieau
Michael Armstrong
Dale Bailey
Judith Berman
Bruce Boston
Alan Brennert
Edward Bryant
Tobias Buckell
Susan Burke
Michael Burstein
Octavia Butler
Ted Chiang
Mona Clee
Graham P. Collins
Gerard Conway
Robert Crais
Cory Doctorow
Linda J. Dunn
Jeff Duntemann
Scott Edelman
George Alex Effinger
Kelly Eskridge
Nancy Etchemendy
Marjorie Farrell
Gregory Frost
Joseph Gangemi
Gavin Grant
Nicola Griffith
Eileen Gunn
Gustav Hasford
Pamela Hodgson
Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Alexandra Honigsberg
Nalo Hopkinson
Michael Jasper
Richard Kadrey
James Patrick Kelly
Kathe Koja
Aimee Kratts
Geoffrey Landis
Kelly Link
Marjorie Liu
Jason Eric Lundberg
Allan Maurer
Kelly McClymer
Seth McEvoy
Vonda McIntyre
Patrick Meadows
Lois Metzger
Sasha Miller
Mario Milosevic
Hilary Murphy
Pat Murphy
Pamela Noles
Brooks Peck
Tim Pratt
David Prill
Madeleine Robins
Kim Stanley Robinson
Michaela Roessner-Herman
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Richard Paul Russo
Rhondi Vilott Salsitz
Al Sarrantonio
Felicity Savage
Darrell Schweitzer
Lucius Shepard
Gary Shockley
William Shunn
David Skal
Dean Wesley Smith
Lucy Snyder
Martha Soukup
Bruce Sterling
Mary Turzillo
Lisa Tuttle
Leslie What
Paul Witcover
William F. Wu
Marc Zicree
Clarion Faculty
Eleanor Arnason
Steven Barnes
Dale Bailey
Elizabeth Bear
Michael Bishop
Terry Bisson
Holly Black
Edward Bryant
Algis (A.J.) Budrys
Octavia Butler
Orson Scott Card
Suzy McKee Charnas
Ted Chiang
Cassandra Clare
Robert Crais
Ellen Datlow
Samuel R. Delany
Gordon R. Dickson
Thomas Disch
Cory Doctorow
Gardner Dozois
Tananarive Due
Andy Duncan
David Anthony Durham
Scott Edelman
Phyllis Eisenstein
Harlan Ellison
Carol Emshwiller
Kathryn Fanning
Charles Coleman Finlay
Jeffrey Ford
Karen Joy Fowler
James Frenkel
Gregory Frost
Neil Gaiman
Lisa Goldstein
Martin Greenberg
Andrea Hairston
Joe and Gay Haldeman
Philip Haldeman
Elizabeth Hand
Harry Harrison
David Hartwell
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Nalo Hopkinson
K.W. Jeter
Kij Johnson
Mat Johnson
Gwyneth Jones
James Patrick Kelly
John Kessel
Damon Knight
Nancy Kress
Michael Kube-McDowell
Ellen Kushner
Larissa Lai
Geoffrey Landis
Fritz Leiber
Jonathan Lethem
Kelly Link
Elizabeth Lynn
George R. R. Martin
Shawna McCarthy
Maureen McHugh
Kim Mohan
Mary Anne Mohanraj
James Morrow
Pat Murphy
Paul Park
Frederick Pohl
Tim Powers
Marta Randall
Kit Reed
Mike Resnick
Kim Stanley Robinson
Spider Robinson
Michaela Roessner-Herman
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Joanna Russ
Richard Paul Russo
Geoff Ryman
John Scalzi
Lucius Shepard
Delia Sherman
Dean Wesley Smith
Norman Spinrad
Sean Stewart
Judith Tarr
Robert Thurston
Alice K. Turner
Mary Turzillo
Ann VanderMeer
Jeff VanderMeer
Gordon Van Gelder
Gene Van Troyer
Joan Vinge
Howard Waldrop
David White
Leslie What
Kate Wilhelm
Sheila Williams
Walter Jon Williams
Connie Willis
Gene Wolfe
Patricia Wrede