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Seeking free banner space for Clarion writers’ workshop

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, 150x150 and 150x58) 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!

15 Responses to “Seeking free banner space for Clarion writers’ workshop”

1. Matthew Appleton says:

   February 10, 2006 at 3:14 pm

   Just wanted to let you know that I included a banner link on the Some Fantastic website.
2. Toby says:

   February 10, 2006 at 3:27 pm

   Me, too. Banner up on SciFi Scripts
3. Cory Doctorow says:

   February 10, 2006 at 3:38 pm

   w00t! You guys are the best!
4. Randy Charles Morin says:

   February 10, 2006 at 5:38 pm

   Should I host the image or are you interested in the impressions data?
5. Cory Doctorow says:

   February 10, 2006 at 5:39 pm

   Up to you, Randy!
6. Alex Santoso says:

   February 10, 2006 at 5:45 pm

   Your banner's up at Neatorama. Hope it helps!
7. Cory Doctorow says:

   February 10, 2006 at 5:50 pm

   Awesome! Thanks, Alex!
8. Frac says:

   February 10, 2006 at 7:59 pm

   I'd love to, but my personal preference is to avoid animation and keep my images below 8K. Do you have something available? I can whip something up myself, but thought I'd ask first.
9. Jason Erik Lundberg says:

   February 10, 2006 at 8:56 pm

   I'll put one up at my website when I get home today.
10. Frac says:

    February 11, 2006 at 2:12 am

    I'm working on a non-animated 88 x something version of the image right now.

    On a side note, your choice of landing pages probably wasn't the best. Anyone with Adblock is likely blocking "/ads/".

    Oh well.
11. Frac says:

    February 11, 2006 at 2:30 am

    I have an 88x150 non-animated version of the ad that's under 8K on my site now. Anyone that wants it, feel free to "steal" it, but please copy it to your own server.
12. Cavan says:

    February 12, 2006 at 2:51 am

    I'll stick one up on my blog - I've applied for the 2006 workshop, so I guess it's in my best interests!
13. Toby says:

    February 14, 2006 at 4:40 am

    Frac,

    You are the best. I've 'stolen' your ad.

    Toby
    scifiscripts
14. Nate Schutta says:

    February 16, 2006 at 2:16 am

    Cory,

    You're banner is up on my site - hope it helps! Sorry it took so long...

    Nate Schutta
15. Iain Emsley says:

    February 27, 2006 at 6:43 am

    I've posted a banner on the Aust Gate. Hope it helps.

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