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Welcome

Founded in 1997, Clockhouse Writers' Conference is the alumni association of Goddard College's MFAW program.  CWC seeks to support MFAW alums as they continue the writing practice they established at Goddard and have since brought to the world at large. Just as importantly, CWC also seeks to support the MFAW program and its students.  We hold an annual summer Conference & Retreat on Goddard's Plainfield, Vermont, campus, and a winter one at Goddard's Port Townsend, Washington, program site.  CWC also publishes the national literary journal Clockhouse in partnership with the college and with a nationally-dispersed but closely-working staff of MFAW alums.  See what we're about here and on the Friday postings of the Writer in the World blog,  and sign up if you'd like to get timely Conference & Retreat and other CWC information.

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CWC STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY

We of the Clockhouse Writers Conference acknowledge that as a country, we are still arcing toward the fulfillment of liberty and justice for all, that the manifestation of this vision is yet incomplete.

We acknowledge our responsibilities as writers to educate ourselves, family, friends, and others. To speak out and write against racism, to give room and agency to those who know what needs to be done and humbly accept that we need to be honest and uncomfortable as we undertake courageous action together as a community. We will use our CWC community as a source of healing and hope.

Although we mostly write in solitude, we take up our pens and join our voices as a community to fervently affirm our commitment to racial justice. As writers, we hold as sacred our responsibility to the ongoing work of the creation of freedom for all. Words make worlds.



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TAKING PLACE REMOTELY PLEASE READ!

The 2020 Clockhouse Writers' Conference & Retreat was held from July 1 through July 5. Due to the global pandemic, this was a virtual conference.  

Registration materials for CWC&R 2021 will be available in
February, 2021
at:


Clockhouse Writers'
 Conference & Retreat

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We're extremely pleased to announce the publication of
Volume Eight - 2020 of CLOCKHOUSE, the national literary journal we publish in partnership with Goddard College. To learn more about the journal and its submissions guidelines, and to order, please see

CLOCKHOUSE
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Taking Place Remotely

The 2021 Lighthouse Writers' Conference
& Retreat (LWC&R)
will take place from February 12 through February 15 at Goddard College's Port Townsend site. Due to the global pandemic, this wil be a virtual conference. Registration materials for the 2021 are available at: 


Lighthouse Writers'
         Conference & Retreat
                                                             

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