{"id":8061,"date":"2009-06-23T06:00:53","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T13:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theangryblackwoman.com\/2009\/06\/23\/writers-of-color-in-the-write-a-thon\/"},"modified":"2009-06-23T06:00:53","modified_gmt":"2009-06-23T13:00:53","slug":"writers-of-color-in-the-write-a-thon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=8061","title":{"rendered":"Writers of Color in the Write-a-thon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"postavatar\" src=\"http:\/\/theangryblackwoman.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/icons\/abw.jpg\" width=\"87\" height=\"100\" alt=\"writers-of-color-in-the-write-a-thon\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As I mentioned before, I&#8217;m participating in the Write-a-thon to raise money for Clarion West and the Butler scholarship. There are also other writers of color participating (though they&#8217;re only raising money for CW). If you have any amount to donate, even if it just $1\/week or a flat $10, I encourage you to do so if you&#8217;re interested in fostering better speculative fiction. Clarion West graduates go on to be amazing writers, just look at Nisi.<\/p>\n<p>You can sponsor by visiting individual writer&#8217;s pages on the Clarion West site.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a list of the (known to me) writers of color on the list of participants:<\/p>\n<div class=\"view view-wat-list\">\n<div class=\"item-list\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div class=\"view-item view-item-wat-list\">\n<div class=\"view-field view-data-node-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/clarionwest.org\/events\/writeathon\/AMLau\">A. M. Lau<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"view-item view-item-wat-list\">\n<div class=\"view-field view-data-node-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/clarionwest.org\/events\/writeathon\/CurtisCChen\">Curtis C. Chen<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"view-item view-item-wat-list\">\n<div class=\"view-field view-data-node-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/clarionwest.org\/events\/writeathon\/ECMyers\">E. C. Myers<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"view-item view-item-wat-list\">\n<div class=\"view-field view-data-node-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/clarionwest.org\/events\/writeathon\/KTempestBradford\">K. Tempest Bradford<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"view-item view-item-wat-list\">\n<div class=\"view-field view-data-node-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/clarionwest.org\/events\/writeathon\/NisiShawl\">Nisi Shawl<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"view-item view-item-wat-list\">\n<div class=\"view-field view-data-node-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/clarionwest.org\/events\/writeathon\/RajanKhanna\">Rajan Khanna<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"view-item view-item-wat-list\">\n<div class=\"view-field view-data-node-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/clarionwest.org\/events\/writeathon\/RashidaSmith\">Rashida (Eddie) Smith<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"view-item view-item-wat-list\">\n<div class=\"view-field view-data-node-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/clarionwest.org\/events\/writeathon\/TFDavenport\">T. F. Davenport<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If your name belongs on this list and isn&#8217;t, please let me know in comments. (I went off of pictures for people I don&#8217;t know.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><h4>And now a word from our sponsor&#8230;<\/h4>\n<p><!-- Beginning of Project Wonderful ad code: --><br \/>\n<!-- Ad box ID: 38358 --><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"468\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\">\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.projectwonderful.com\/nojs.php?id=38358&amp;type=1\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" colspan=\"1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.projectwonderful.com\/advertisehere.php?id=38358&amp;type=1\">Your ad could be here, right now.<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"1\" valign=\"top\" width=\"468\" bgcolor=\"#000000\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><!-- End of Project Wonderful ad code. --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"postavatar\" src=\"http:\/\/theangryblackwoman.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/icons\/abw.jpg\" width=\"87\" height=\"100\" alt=\"writers-of-color-in-the-write-a-thon\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nAs I mentioned before, I&#8217;m participating in the Write-a-thon to raise money for Clarion West and the Butler scholarship. There are also other writers of color participating (though they&#8217;re only raising money for CW). If you have any amount to donate, even if it just $1\/week or a flat $10, I encourage you to do [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><h4>And now a word from our sponsor&#8230;<\/h4>\n<p><!-- Beginning of Project Wonderful ad code: --><br \/>\n<!-- Ad box ID: 38358 --><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"468\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\">\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.projectwonderful.com\/nojs.php?id=38358&amp;type=1\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" colspan=\"1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.projectwonderful.com\/advertisehere.php?id=38358&amp;type=1\" target=\"_blank\">Your ad could be here, right now.<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"1\" valign=\"top\" width=\"468\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" style=\"3px;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><!-- End of Project Wonderful ad code. --><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=8061\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}