{"id":486,"date":"2010-03-01T13:53:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T17:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/?p=486"},"modified":"2010-03-01T13:53:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T17:53:00","slug":"apply-to-the-clarion-workshop-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/01\/apply-to-the-clarion-workshop-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Apply to the Clarion Workshop, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today is your last day to apply for the Clarion Workshop<\/a>. If you write short stories, apply.<\/p>\n

I haven’t written about the workshop much (at least on here—in private correspondence I’ve written extensively) but since I attended last year, in the summer of 2009, I’ve grown as a reader, writer, critic, observer, tactician, &c. My friends there—and I, gloriously, count my instructors among my friends—recommended books to me that have made the last few months a delight; my memory of past conversations, and the letters we write continue to lay fresh avenues of thought; I have an extended family built on shared, self-imposed affliction and composed of the finest people I have had the privilege to live with, cheek-by-jowl. Nothing I’ve done compares.<\/p>\n

The instructors this year are excellent. Delia Sherman, George R.R. Martin, Dale Bailey, Samuel R. Delany, Jeff VanderMeer, Ann VanderMeer. And, if I may repeat myself: Samuel R. Delany. Samuel R. Delany is teaching this year. Samuel R. Delany<\/em>. Yes.<\/p>\n

So I say again, with fervency and earnest eyes and overly familiar hand-pressing: If you write short stories, apply to the Clarion workshop<\/a>. Today is your last day. Midnight according Pacific time, so you slobs on the east coast have until three.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"