List of Clarion Writers Workshop Instructors

This is a list of past instructors in the Clarion Workshop, an annual writers' workshop for science fiction, fantasy, and speculative literature writers.

Instructors marked with an asterisk are also graduates of the Clarion or Clarion West workshops.


 * Saladin Ahmed
 * Eleanor Arnason
 * Steven Barnes
 * Christopher Barzak*
 * Elizabeth Bear
 * Michael Bishop
 * Terry Bisson
 * Holly Black
 * Ben Bova
 * Edward Bryant*
 * Algis Budrys
 * Octavia Butler*
 * Orson Scott Card
 * Suzy McKee Charnas
 * Ted Chiang*
 * Cassandra Clare
 * Robert Crais*
 * Ellen Datlow
 * Samuel R. Delany
 * Gordon Dickson
 * Thomas Disch
 * Cory Doctorow*
 * Gardner Dozois
 * Tananarive Due
 * Andy Duncan*
 * David Anthony Durham
 * Scott Edelman
 * Phyllis Eisenstein
 * Harlan Ellison
 * Carol Emshwiller
 * Charles Coleman Finlay
 * Jeffrey Ford
 * Karen Joy Fowler
 * James Frenkel
 * Gregory Frost*
 * Neil Gaiman
 * Lisa Goldstein
 * Martin Greenberg
 * Joe Haldeman
 * Elizabeth Hand
 * Harry Harrison
 * Patrick Nielsen Hayden
 * Nina Kiriki Hoffman
 * Nalo Hopkinson*
 * N.K. Jemisin
 * 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
 * Margo Lanagan*
 * Geoffrey A. Landis*
 * Fritz Leiber
 * Jonathan Lethem
 * Kelly Link*
 * Elizabeth Lynn
 * George R.R. Martin
 * Shawna McCarthy
 * Judith Merril
 * Maureen McHugh
 * Kim Mohan
 * Mary Anne Mohanraj*
 * James Morrow
 * Pat Murphy
 * Paul Park
 * Frederik Pohl
 * Tim Powers
 * Marta Randall
 * Kit Reed
 * Mike Resnick
 * Kim Stanley Robinson*
 * Spider and Jeanne Robinson
 * Kristine Kathryn Rusch*
 * Joanna Russ
 * Richard Russo
 * Geoff Ryman
 * John Scalzi
 * Lucius Shepard*
 * Delia Sherman
 * Dean Wesley Smith
 * Norman Spinrad
 * Sean Stewart
 * Theodore Sturgeon
 * Michael Swanwick
 * Judith Tarr
 * Robert Thurston*
 * Mary A. Turzillo*
 * Catherynne Valente
 * Gordon Van Gelder*
 * Ann VanderMeer
 * Jeff VanderMeer*
 * Joan Vinge
 * Howard Waldrop
 * Leslie What*
 * Kate Wilhelm
 * Sheila Williams
 * Walter Jon Williams
 * Connie Willis
 * Robin Scott Wilson
 * Gene Wolfe
 * Patricia Wrede

2015 Instructors
Clarion 2015 writers in residence:


 * Christopher Barzak
 * Saladin Ahmed
 * James Patrick Kelly
 * Karen Joy Fowler
 * Maureen McHugh
 * Margo Lanagan