The Clarion Foundation is the charitable organization that oversees the legendary Clarion science fiction writers’ workshop, and it’s seeking your help in the form of donated banner-space on your site.
I’m on the Board of the Foundation, a new nonprofit, and we’ve just produced our first-ever marketing campaign with the generous volunteer assistance of Grad Conn, my friend and old business-partner. The campaign consists (modestly) of the badges you see below, and a landing-page with some information on signing up to the workshop, which runs for six weeks every summer — it’s going to be in East Lansing, Michigan again this year.
We’re looking for websites that are willing to help us run the campaign by donating some space to host one of these badges (they’re in two standard sizes, 150×150 and 150×58) in a prominent place between now and the application deadline on April 1. Even if you can only run it for part of the time, or in rotation, we’d appreciate your help.
Clarion has trained hordes of talented writers, from Bruce Sterling to Octavia Butler, from Kelly Link to Nalo Hopkinson. I’m a graduate and had the good fortune to teach the program last year as well. Attending Clarion is a life-changing experience for many, a watershed moment that helps writers understand what is needed if they are to succeed, and that gives them the tools to achieve success.
Help us out if you can: inline one of the images below and link it to http://www.theclarionfoundation.org/ads/landing/. You’ll be helping to guide the careers of the writers who’ll be entertaining you in a year or two.
Thanks!
