-----Original Message----- To: Carl Brandon Society Subject: [CarlBrandon] Scholarships available for writers of color: Clarion West Writers Workshop
Dear colleagues and friends at CBS: Applications are open for the 2009 session of the Clarion West writers workshop, an intensive six-week, live-in workshop for writers preparing for professional careers in speculative fiction. We believe you can help us get our information to the ambitious, talented applicants were looking for. Gifted writers are found in all races, but because speculative fiction reflects the prejudices of the culture around it, proportionately fewer writers of color are successful. Clarion West is dedicated to improving those proportions. Co-founded in 1984 by J.T. Stewart, a woman of color, and Marilyn J. Holt, Clarion West has produced some of the most exciting and creative new writers in the field, including Kathleen Alcalá, Andrea Hairston, and Nisi Shawl. Our 2009 instructors are John Kessel, Karen Joy Fowler, Elizabeth Bear, Nalo Hopkinson, David Hartwell, and Rudy Rucker. Hopkinson, winner of the World Fantasy and Gaylactic Spectrum Awards, has edited four anthologies focused on representing people of color in narratives of the fantastic. A number of scholarships to the workshop are available, including the Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarship, awarded annually to a writer of color. For more information on the workshop and application process, please visit http://www.clarionwest.org. If you are referring potential students, please tell them to visit our website and apply there. Application and scholarship information is on the site. Thank you for your time and attention. Sincerely, Eileen Gunn :: :: :: :: :: Eileen Gunn Vice-Chair, Board of Directors The Clarion West Writers Workshop 340 Fifteenth Avenue East, Suite 350 Seattle, Washington 98112 phone :: 206-323-0052 email :: g...@radarangels.com :: :: :: :: ::
