And the 2005 Clarion Begins
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dr_phil_physicsSomewhere in East Lansing MI
By the time this gets posted, the new class at the 2005 Clarion Workshop will be wondering just what the heck they've signed up for (grin). One crit session under their belt, and perhaps 29 to go. Yikes!
I'm not sure where they are this year. For a long time they worked out of a graduate dorm at Michigan State, but last year we were housed in a sorority house.
(Fellow Clarion 2005 traveler Slithytove says they are back in the sorority house -- this is good news for the students. More anon...)
One cool thing they've done this year is ally themselves with some local libraries, in addition to the usual bookstores, and have more evening readings over the six weeks -- including a book launch by Cory Doctorow at Schuler's Books on Thursday 7 July 2005, 7:30pm EDT. (NOTE: the address given on the Clarion web page above suggests this is NOT the Okomos branch of Schuler's, so I'll have to figure out where this is. We've never been to a book launch event and we might be able to run over from West Michigan for that.)
In the Meantime...
I was trying to Google things like "2005 Clarion workshop blogs" last night, and didn't find anything of relevance. But I did come across, at one point, a very cool entry by another LiveJournal user and Clarion 2000 participant -- if you have ever thought about attending any of the Clarions, there are some good comments here:
Karen Travis
(I was going to post this in the morning, but it's been a busy day -- searched some more, still can't find any 2005 blogs. Come on, guys, dish!)
Dr. Phil
By the time this gets posted, the new class at the 2005 Clarion Workshop will be wondering just what the heck they've signed up for (grin). One crit session under their belt, and perhaps 29 to go. Yikes!
I'm not sure where they are this year. For a long time they worked out of a graduate dorm at Michigan State, but last year we were housed in a sorority house.
(Fellow Clarion 2005 traveler Slithytove says they are back in the sorority house -- this is good news for the students. More anon...)
One cool thing they've done this year is ally themselves with some local libraries, in addition to the usual bookstores, and have more evening readings over the six weeks -- including a book launch by Cory Doctorow at Schuler's Books on Thursday 7 July 2005, 7:30pm EDT. (NOTE: the address given on the Clarion web page above suggests this is NOT the Okomos branch of Schuler's, so I'll have to figure out where this is. We've never been to a book launch event and we might be able to run over from West Michigan for that.)
In the Meantime...
I was trying to Google things like "2005 Clarion workshop blogs" last night, and didn't find anything of relevance. But I did come across, at one point, a very cool entry by another LiveJournal user and Clarion 2000 participant -- if you have ever thought about attending any of the Clarions, there are some good comments here:
Karen Travis
(I was going to post this in the morning, but it's been a busy day -- searched some more, still can't find any 2005 blogs. Come on, guys, dish!)
Dr. Phil
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Date: Tuesday, 25 July 2006 07:00 (UTC)Anyway, I went to Clarion 2005 (in the lovely KKG house) and there are at least two ljs that I know of from my fellow crit-mates: lzernechel and tcastleb are the user names.
I don't have one, mostly because I am lazy, but also partly because I am well, really, really lazy. I hope that the 2006-ers have some great blogs, so I can sit around and read them and spend a little more time thinking how great it would be if I ever did that myself.
Anyway, I actually wound up over here following the WOTF ljseek trail, and I was hoping to get some info from someone who's been in the finals before. I've got a story that's a finalist this quarter (a Clarion story from last summer, actually), but it's been more than five weeks since they called with the finalist news and nothing since then. That's not good, right? Do you know if they only call the top three and send letters to the rest or do they call everyone?
Anyway, I know it doesn't really matter and I should just wait patiently and see what happens, but it really is far more fun to troll the web in search of info than to write a new story or edit something old and the guilt receptors in my brain have not yet hit overload.
Any 2004-ers going to WorldCon, BTW? A meet-up would be excellent fun.
Kim
(Uh, hope you don't mind me posting to you here, and if you do then much apologies!)
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Date: Monday, 21 June 2010 18:56 (UTC)You were worried that posting in 2006 about a 2005 post would be a problem. Well, I wasn't using the Manage Comments feature in LJ yet, so I just stumbled across your post in 2010. (grin) So absolutely no apologies!
I actually was in the KKG house during the 2005 Clarion and went to one of the readings at the bookstore, so I've definitely "met" some of the 2005'ers.
Dr. Phil