Strange Horizons has a story by Elizabeth Carroll, one of my Clarion South writing buddies.

She workshopped the story at Clarion in week 5.  It was interesting for me to see how the revised story turned out.

Assassins, magic and monkeys!  What’s not to love?

http://www.strangehorizons.com/2010/20100405/fingerling-f.shtml

The malcontents from Clarion South Apartment 336 (Ben, Steph, Su Lynn and myself) are proud to announce the arrival of the world’s first 4D blog. (Viewing goggles optional.  Imax version subject to demand).

The Long Write
http://thelongwrite.com/

* More insightful than the Collected Twitter Posts of Jar Jar Binks.

* More controversial than the implementation of decimal time.

* More entertaining than reading a history of object-oriented management strategies written in binary.

* Filled with more Fail than AmazonFail, RaceFail and the Fail Whale combined.

* Now with 20% more monkeys.

For your reading enjoyment we present the wise words and thoughtful thoughts of the unstoppable Sean Williams.

http://thelongwrite.com/2010/02/03/sean-williams-interview-2/

http://thelongwrite.com/2010/02/03/sean-williams-interview-2/

This month’s issue of the Internet Review of Science Fiction includes my article about Clarion South.

Attack of the Killer Sock Puppets: Six Weeks at Clarion South

http://www.irosf.com/q/zine/article/10551

Wordle is a fun tool for word and font geeks.

You can input text and it makes a word cloud image.

Here’s a Clarion South 2009 image.

Clarion South was a great time for me and I learned a lot.   There were a few problems because of tutor cancellations (due to illness), but the organisers did a great job organising new tutors for us at short notice.  Now the organisation that runs Clarion South is having some financial problems.  Kate Eltham says ..

“We encountered a string of rotten luck in delivering the latest Clarion South workshop, the Australian version of Clarion Writers Workshop. Not only was our contract with our original university venue cancelled at short notice, requiring us to find a new and more expensive home, but we had a raft of unexpected cancellations from visiting teachers. “We’re proud of the way we handled these challenges to deliver another successful workshop in 2009, but financially it wiped us clean. We’d love your help and support to refill the coffers so that we can plan for our future workshops and put Clarion South on a more stable financial footing. Thank you! We’re just a bunch of volunteers but we’re incredibly passionate about Clarion South and would like to see it thrive and continue into the future.”

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