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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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                         Photo:  Joe DuPont


Taking Place In Person or Remotely -- Your Choice!

The 2022 Clockhouse Writers' Conference & Retreat (CWC&R) took place August 1 - 5, 2022. 
l Registration materials for summer 2023 will be available here:

Clockhouse Writers'
 Conference & Retreat
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Volume Eight

We're extremely pleased to announce our preparations for
Volume Nine - 2022 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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                              Photo:  John Loo


Taking Place Remotely

The 2023 Lighthouse Writers' Conference
& Retreat (LWC&R)
will take place February 17 - 20, 2023.   Registration materials for the  will soon become available here: 


Lighthouse Writers'
         Conference & Retreat                                                             

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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