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Blog &Clarion &Fiction Eugene Fischer | 25 Sep 2009

A Lot of Good News

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 [...]

Clarion Eugene Fischer | 29 Apr 2009

“Tentacle Mind Report” by Stefani Nellen

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

Sarah Miller in Everyday Weirdness

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

Some Thoughts on the Announcement of the Class of Clarion 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

Clarion Teachers Everywhere

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 [...]

Clarion &SF/F Eugene Fischer | 16 Mar 2009

Paul M. Berger in INTERZONE

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

A Message to the Applicants for Clarion 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 [...]