Oops. I knew I'd forgotten something.

I forgot to remind everypony about this year's Clarion application deadlines. The pony community has previously offered financial assistance to writers here who are accepted to Clarion ($1460, according to horizon). It's up to each individual who made a pledge to decide whether their pledge still stands. Mine does.

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Every year for the past 7 years, I've organized people to fund a scholarship for any fimfiction writer who's accepted to Clarion, or a small number of similar writing workshops. Every year, no one from fimfiction applies.

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Most of you probably know that each year since 2013, I've promoted the Clarion SF&F writing workshop, and asked people to pledge money to help send someone from fimfiction to Clarion if they were accepted.

And every year since 2013, no one from fimfiction applied. So this year, I didn't ask people to pledge. But I'm confident that if somebody from fimfiction applies and gets accepted to Clarion, there will be great souls among us who will offer to help them pay for the workshop.

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Clarion Writing Workshops

The deadline for applying to Clarion is March 1, 2018, at 11:59 pm Pacific Time.
I checked, and that's the end of the day (Pacific time) on March 1.
Apply to Clarion 2018

The deadline for applying to Clarion West is Feb 28, 2018, at 11:59 pm, probably Pacific Time.
That's before March 1.

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First, 2020 Clarion Applications close March 1 (Check Bad Horse's blog for details) Next, I made a post on gaming and politics on the Writers Group (seemed a bit quiet, hence the boost) And last, I'm making some progress on Letters From a Little Princess

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TL;DR: Some folks at fimfiction have again scraped together $785 $900 $1000 to give to any fimfiction writer who gets accepted this year at any of the most-prestigious American science fiction & fantasy writing workshops.

To quote from my 2013 post on the Clarion Science Fiction & Fantasy Writing Workshop:

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