Blog & Clarion & Fiction Eugene Fischer | 25 Sep 2009
To begin, other people’s good news:
First, and long run most important, Mary Anne had a baby! Howdy, Anandan. Welcome to the world.
Paul Berger sold one of his Clarion stories, “Small Burdens” to Strange Horizons. It should be showing up next year in the Spring, and it is a marvelous piece of work.
Meghan McCarron also sold [...]
Clarion Eugene Fischer | 29 Apr 2009
Steffi wrote the first draft of this story at Clarion last summer, and after a couple of pages I put my pen down and forgot I was supposed to be critiquing because I was so engrossed by it. Steffi has a gift for marrying the mundane to the unsettling, and while this story of parasitic [...]
Clarion & SF/F Eugene Fischer | 08 Apr 2009
My Clarionmate Sarah Miller has had a lovely, elegant flash piece published at Everyday Weirdness. Take a few moments and make your day a little stranger by experiencing “The Music at Bash Bish Falls.“
Clarion Eugene Fischer | 27 Mar 2009
This picture was taken a year ago yesterday, approximately ten minutes after I found out I was accepted to the Clarion Writers’ Workshop for 2008. That night my girlfriend and I were planning to go out to dinner to celebrate her having finished her qualifying exam. We stopped at my apartment for some reason or [...]
Clarion Eugene Fischer | 17 Mar 2009
Last night Neil Gaiman was on The Colbert Report discussing The Graveyard Book:
The Colbert ReportMon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
Neil Gaiman
And tonight on the BBC World Service, Geoff Ryman was brought on to discuss the propriety of the United Nations holding a panel discussion about Battlestar Galactica. I haven’t been able to find a link [...]
Clarion & SF/F Eugene Fischer | 16 Mar 2009
I urge you to find a way to get your hands on the current issue of Interzone, which contains the story “Home Again,” by Paul M. Berger. Paul was my Clarion classmate and roomie, and I got to read the first draft of this story at the workshop. I don’t actually know of anyplace in [...]
Clarion Eugene Fischer | 02 Mar 2009
And you should be finished with your Clarion and/or Clarion West workshop application right about…now.
Well, actually you probably should have finished and uploaded your application a while ago, giving yourself a comfortable cushion of time to correct any problems that might arise with the process. But that isn’t what I did. Around this time a [...]