Tomorrow, June 26th, is the 22nd anniversary of my arrival at the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Workshop, on the campus of Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan. The following piece was written for an anthology about Clarion several years ago, one which firstly did not take the essay and secondly seems not to have appeared at all. Be that as it may, I’ve decided to post it here. Enjoy.
And to all my fellow Clarionites, Happy Anniversary.
Baked Grass and Surgical Evisceration
The room could double for a steambath late into the night. When we arrived—seventeen of us from Maine to California, plus one from England—the weather was the last thing on our minds. …