Greetings! Here is an April 2017 update on the alumni and instructors of Clarion:

ALUMS

1973

Bruce Boston

(1) “Sacrificial Nights”, a poetry novella written in collaboration with Alessandro Manzetti, is on the Bram Stoker AwardFfinal Ballot.

(2) Visions of the Mutant Rain Forest, a fiction and poetry collaboration with Robert Frazier, has been released by Crystal Lake Publishing.

1974

James Patrick Kelly

“Burn” was reprinted in the April 2017 issue of Forever magazine.

1975

Gregory Frost (with Bill Johnson)

“Three Can Keep a Secret” has been published in the March/April 2017 issue of Asimov’s magazine.

1976

Eileen Gunn

“Phantom Pain” was published in the March 2017 issue of Lightspeed magazine.

1979

Scott Edelman

“That Perilous Stuff” (Chiral Mad 3) has been nominated for the 2016 Bram Stoker Awards.

1985

Kristine Kathryn Rusch

“Matilda” (April/May 2016 issue) has been nominated for the 31st Annual Asimov’s Readers’ Awards.

1992

Dale Bailey

(1) “I Married a Monster from Outer Space” (March 2016 issue) has been nominated for the 31st Annual Asimov’s Readers’ Awards.

(2) “Invasion of the Saucer Men” was published in the March/April 2017 issue of Asimov’s magazine.

1994

Michael A. Burstein

“Sofer Pete” (with Tom Easton) was published in the March 2017 issue of Nature magazine.

1995

Jenise Aminoff

Sold “My Mother the Ocean” to the 2018 Young Explorers’ Adventure Guide, under her pen name, Dianna Sanchez.

1996

Rosemary Claire Smith

“Diamond Jim and the Dinosaurs” (April 2016 issue) is a finalist for the 2016 Analog Analytical Laboratory (AnLab) Awards.

2001

Theodora Goss

“Come See the Living Dryad” was published by Tor.com.

Nnedi Okorafor

(1) Binti (Tor.com publishing) has been shortlisted for the 2017 Nommo Awards.

(2) Is one of the authors contributing to the anthology Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View (Del Ray).

2003

Will McIntosh

“Soulmates.com” was published in the March/April 2017 issue of Asimov’s magazine.

2004

Marjorie Liu

Monstress, Volume 1: Awakening (art by Sana Takeda), has been nominated for the 2017 Hugo Awards.

2006

Livia Llewellyn

Furnace (Word Horde) won the This Is Horror Award for Best Story Collection.

Shveta Thakrar

“The Mango Tree” was published in the sixth issue of Mothership Zeta magazine.

2007

Jerome Stueart

A review of his collection, The Angels of Our Better Beasts, which contains one of his Clarion stories, can be found here. ICYMI, you can catch his recent interview with the Clarion e-Bulletin here.

2009

Tiffani Angus

Sold “Midwives” to the Mother’s Revenge anthology (Scary Dairy Press), which will be released later this month.

Mishell Baker

(1) Borderline (Saga) was on the shortlist for the 2016 James Tiptree, Jr. Award.

(2) Borderline (Saga) has been nominated for the 2016 Nebula Awards.

2010

Gregory Bossert

“Goner” was published in the March/April 2017 issue of Asimov’s.

Kai Ashante Wilson

(1) A Taste of Honey (Tor.com Publishing) has been nominated for the 2017 Hugo Awards.

(2) A Taste of Honey (Tor.com Publishing) has been nominated for the 2016 Nebula Awards.

2011

Brooke Bolander

(1) “Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies” (Uncanny magazine November/December 2016) has been nominated for the 2017 Hugo Awards.

(2) “Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies” (Uncanny magazine November/December 2016) has been nominated for the 2016 Nebula Awards.

2012

Sam J. Miller

“Things with Beards” (Clarkesworld magazine June 2016) has been nominated for the 2016 Nebula Awards.

2013

Alyssa Wong

(1) “You’ll Surely Drown Here If You Stay” (Uncanny magazine May/June 2016) has been nominated for the 2017 Hugo Awards.

(2) “A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers” (Tor.com 3/2/16) has been nominated for the 2017 Hugo Awards.

(3) “You’ll Surely Drown Here If You Stay” (Uncanny magazine May/June 2016) has been nominated for the 2016 Nebula Awards.

(4) “A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers” (Tor.com 3/2/16) has been nominated for the 2016 Nebula Awards.

2014

Nino Cipri

“Opals and Clay” (Podcastle podcast 5/12/16) was on the shortlist for the 2016 James Tiptree, Jr. Award.

Martin Cahill

Sold “Godmeat” to Lightspeed magazine for publication later this year.

Tamara Vardomskaya

Sold “Suite for Accompanied Cello” to Beneath Ceaseless Skies magazine, for publication later this year.

Marian Womack

Lost Objects, her first collection of short stories, was released in January 2017 from Luna Press Publishing (Scotland).

2015

Rose Hartley

“No Other Men in Mitchell,” which was originally published in Nightmare magazine in February 2016, has been nominated for the Australian Shadows Awards in the Short Fiction category.

Nathan Hillstrom

“White Dust” has been nominated for 31st annual Asimov’s Readers’ Awards.

Sarah Saab

“Suddenwall” was published in the February/March 2017 issue (#220) of Beneath Ceaseless Skies.

2016

Jenn Grunigen

“Figs, Detached” will appear in the April 2017 issue of Nightmare magazine.

Kathleen Kayembe

“You Will Always Have Family: A Triptych” was published in the March 2017 issue of Nightmare magazine.

Sunil Patel

“The Tragedy of the Dead Is That They Cannot Cry” was published in the March 2017 issue of Galaxy’s Edge magazine.

INSTRUCTORS

Eleanor Arnason

(1) Hwarhath Stories (Aqueduct) was on the shortlist for the 2016 James Tiptree, Jr. Award.

(2) “Daisy” was published in the March/April 2017 issue of Fantasy & Science Fiction magazine.

Terry Bisson

“We Regret the Error” was published in the March/April 2017 issue of Asimov’s magazine.

Rae Carson

Is one of the authors contributing to the anthology Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View (Del Ray).

Neil Gaiman

The View from the Cheap Seats (Morrow; Headline) has been nominated for the 2017 Hugo Awards.

Andrea Hairston

(1) Will Do Magic for Small Change (Aqueduct) has been nominated for the 29th Annual Lambda Literary Awards.

(2) Will Do Magic for Small Change was on the shortlist for the 2016 James Tiptree, Jr. Award.

Elizabeth Hand

Hard Light (Minotaur) has been nominated for the 2016 Bram Stoker Awards.

N. K. Jemisin

(1) The Obelisk Gate (Orbit US; Orbit UK) has been nominated for the 2017 Hugo Awards.

(2) “The City Born Great” (Tor.com 9/28/16) has been nominated for the 2017 Hugo Awards.

(3) The Obelisk Gate (Orbit US; Orbit UK) has been nominated for the 2016 Nebula Awards.

Kij Johnson

(1) The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe (Tor.com Publishing) has been nominated for the 2017 Hugo Awards.

(2) Un Pont sur la Brume [The Man Who Bridged the Mist] (Bélial’) has been nominated for the 2017 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire.

(3) The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe (Tor.com Publishing) has been nominated for the 2016 Nebula Awards.

Victor LaValle

(1) The Ballad of Black Tom (Tor.com Publishing) has been nominated for the 2017 Hugo Awards.

(2) The Ballad of Black Tom won the 2016 This Is Horror Award for Best Novella.

(3) The Ballad of Black Tom has been nominated for the 2016 Bram Stoker Awards.

(4) The Ballad of Black Tom has been nominated for the 2016 Nebula Awards.

Paul Park

“If Lions Could Speak: Imagining the Alien” was published in the April 2017 issue of Lightspeed magazine.

Marta Randall

“The Stone Lover” was published in the March 2017 issue of Lightspeed magazine.

Mike Resnick

Santiago (Edizioni Della Vigna) has been nominated for the 2017 Italian Primo Italia Awards.

Kim Stanley Robinson

Il Verde di Marte [Green Mars] (Fanucci) has been nominated for the 2017 Italian Primo Italia Awards.

John Scalzi

Les Enfermés [Lock In], translated by Mikael Cabon (L’Atalante), is a winner of the 2017 Prix Bob Morane.

Delia Sherman

The Evil Wizard Smallbone (Candlewick) has been nominated for the 2016 Andre Norton Award.

Michael Swanwick

“Ancient Engines” was reprinted in the April 2017 issue of Clarkesworld magazine.

Catherynne M. Valente

La Fille Qui Navigua Autour de Féérie dans un Bateau Construit de Ses Propres Mains [The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making] & La Fille Qui Tomba Sous Féerie et y Mena les Festoiements [The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There], (Balivernes) have been nominated for the 2017 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire.

Jeff Vandermeer

Annihilation (Au Diable Vauvert) has been nominated for the 2017 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire.