The result is an illuminating study of how an essential SF figure shaped themes, unconventional ideas, and an unflagging creative urge into brilliant works of fiction.more Canavan departs from other studies to approach Butler first and foremost as a science fiction writer working within, responding to, and reacting against the genre's particular canon. Drawing on Butler's personal papers, Canavan tracks the false starts, abandoned drafts, tireless rewrites, and real-life obstacles that fed Butler's frustrations and launched her triumphs. Gerry Canavan offers a critical and holistic consideration of Butler's career. Butler's life as an African American woman-an alien in American society and among science fiction writers-informed the powerful works that earned her an ardent readership and acclaim both inside and outside science fiction. Gerry Canavan offers a critical and holistic consideration of Butle I began writing about power because I had so little, Octavia E.
To learn more about the Carl Brandon Society, please read our Mission Statement and visit our site’s other pages.I began writing about power because I had so little, Octavia E. We are a nonprofit organization, and donations made to the fund will be tax deductible. In addition, Octavia was an early member of the Carl Brandon Society. The Fund is being administered by the Carl Brandon Society because its mission is consistent with one of the Society’s primary goals: increasing the representation of people of color in the fantastical genres such as science fiction, fantasy and horror. Winner of many awards including a MacArthur Fellowship, and speculative fiction’s highest honors, the Hugo and the Nebula, Octavia was greatly loved during her lifetime and will be greatly missed. Butler (1947 – 2006) was a brilliant African American writer who broke barriers with her courageous and profoundly truthful books and stories. Butler Memorial Scholarship Fund.” Then mail your donation to: If you’d prefer to make your donation in the form of a check or money order, please make it payable to “The Carl Brandon Society” and note that it is for “The Octavia E. Please use the button to the right of the page to donate via PayPal or a major credit card.
We welcome your tax deductible gift of any amount to this fund. Our goal for a fully endowed scholarship fund is $100,000. To learn more about these workshops, visit the Clarion website and the Clarion West website. If you are accepted as a workshop student, your application materials will be forwarded to the scholarship’s selection committee. Applications are accepted from December of the year preceding the workshops till March of the workshop year. In order to become a Butler Scholar you should first apply to one or both of the Clarion Workshops, noting on your application(s) that you wish to be considered. As of the summer of 2018, 21 Butler Scholarships have been awarded. Butler Memorial Scholarships were awarded in the summer of 2007, and they have been awarded annually each subsequent year at the conclusion of the Clarion and Clarion West Workshops. In addition to her stint as a student at the original Clarion Writers Workshop in Pennsylvania in 1970, Octavia taught several times for Clarion West in Seattle, Washington, and Clarion in East Lansing, Michigan, giving generously of her time to a cause she believed in.
It furthers Octavia’s legacy by providing the same experience/opportunity that Octavia had to future generations of new writers of color. Butler Memorial Scholarship enables writers of color to attend one of the Clarion writing workshops, where Octavia got her start.