Auction to benefit Clarion at UCSD
September 15th, 2006 by Alan Chudnow
The Clarion Science Ficiton and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop, established in 1968 by Robin Scott Wilson, Kate Wilhelm and Damon Knight, is the oldest and most well-respected workshop of its kind. A great number of superb science fiction and fantasy writers are alumni of the workshop including Samuel R, Delany, Joe Haldeman, Thomas Pynchon, Arthur Byron Cover, and the late Octavia E. Butler.
Clarion recently announced it’s move from Michigan State University, it’s home of 37 years, to the University of California San Diego for it’s 2007 program. A new Foundation has been established to help fund the seminal workshop program. The following is an announcement of an auction to help support that effort.
Not only a worthy cause but probably an opportunity to pick up a collectible item or two.
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Here’s the announcment from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America web site:
Auction to benefit Clarion at UCSD
An auction to benefit the new Clarion Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Workshop at UCSD is being conducted on Ebay from September 10 through October 8. There are over 50 auction items, donated by some of the biggest names in the field, including Kate Wilhelm, Karen Joy Fowler, Gene Wolfe, Michael Bishop, Walter Jon Williams, James Patrick Kelly and many others. Items include names appearing in stories, signed books, original manuscripts, artwork, and things too strange and wonderful to describe with mere words.
Items will be auctioned in one-week batches beginning September 10 and ending October 8.
man, I’m looking for Pynchon books, early works up to Gravity’s Rainbow.