Stories are bright Stars Held in the Depths of our Souls.
Carry your own Books. As in 1997, over one hundred stories were workshopped, many of which we look forward to seeing in print in the future. This seemingly tireless though not effortless production of new material was not slowed even by the necessity of holding several Saturday-morning workshops in order to critique the stories with proper attention. Quantity is not, of course, necessarily synonymous with quality, but standards were impressively high and a number of breakthrough stories were written. On the other hand, Cross-Dressing Day, occurring unannounced at the first workshop held by our anchor team of Jim Kelly and Nancy Kress, probably gave those worthies second thoughts about the wisdom of having accepted the assignment of teaching such a well balanced, sober, and respectable group of Clarionites.