CW Responses going out now...

Looks like CW is not far behind UCSD in sending out responses! I just got my rejection from them now... Good luck everyone!
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Comments

PiB...of course you got in,

Submitted by rpcvlawson on March 25, 2012 - 4:20pm.

PiB...of course you got in, and I'm very glad to hear about it. You are an amazing writer, and you're going to get so much out of going. Though i didn't get in, I'm very, very happy that you got it. I expect to read much, much more from you.

Well, at least six more, and

Submitted by PussInBoots on March 25, 2012 - 4:52pm.

Well, at least six more, and then I'll die of exhaustion. ;)

Thank you!

Gasp! A double agent! But

Submitted by JCKey618 on March 25, 2012 - 4:14pm.

Gasp! A double agent! But seriously, congrats. I'm glad one of us forum-ers made it. It must have been weird seeing us all speculate while the decisions had already been made, haha.

It wasn't too weird, because

Submitted by PussInBoots on March 25, 2012 - 4:55pm.

It wasn't too weird, because the only person I knew about was me. I really expected less people to declare rejections! It was strange.

Thank you. And like I said in my video/post, I hope to see everyone here typing away during the Write-a-Thon!

Radio silence is over... My

Submitted by PussInBoots on March 25, 2012 - 3:46pm.

Radio silence is over... My bittersweet news is that I did get in, but I'm sad that so many cool potential classmates didn't! Here's what I had to say about it: http://plunderpuss.net/wordpress/f5ing-the-clarionwest-hashtag

Good luck next year, everyone, and make sure to write six stories during the Write-a-Thon. Then when you sell them, you'll have some cash toward tuition next year!

EEEEEK! (consider yourself

Submitted by Mary Garber on March 26, 2012 - 6:26pm.

EEEEEK! (consider yourself hugged)

Congrats! While I can understand some ambivalence, don't forget that YES YOU DO DESERVE THIS. I'll be writing in spirit with you during the write-a-thon.

Bittersweet. Yes, indeed.

Submitted by ilorien on March 25, 2012 - 10:12pm.

Bittersweet. Yes, indeed.

Happy to be going.

Wish a few of the deserving applicants that I know would be there.

Excited to meet my classmates!

Yay...congrats on acceptance,

Submitted by rpcvlawson on March 26, 2012 - 7:24am.

Yay...congrats on acceptance, sir! You definitely deserve it.

It's good of you to say so,

Submitted by ilorien on March 26, 2012 - 5:18pm.

It's good of you to say so, and I'm trying to convince myself that it's true.

Must make it true. Must write more! Must write better!

',:^D

And a third. Cool! Congrats!

Submitted by Mary Garber on March 26, 2012 - 6:33pm.

And a third. Cool! Congrats! I'm so happy to hear you made it! And it is true, you do deserve it! Do us proud, ilorien, we're all rooting for you! Yay CW 2012 team!

Congratulations, PiB, and I

Submitted by alychelms on March 25, 2012 - 6:14pm.

Congratulations, PiB, and I look forward to meeting you this summer! I also expected more of the forum lurkers to be double-agents like me, hanging out because the radio-silence was killing them. I am sorry that I won't be getting to meet the many cool people I ran into here.

ANOTHER double-agent?!?

Submitted by Mary Garber on March 26, 2012 - 6:30pm.

ANOTHER double-agent?!? Congrats to you, too, Alychelms! Same as I said to PIB, enjoy this now, work like hell later, and we'll be with you in spirit

Those who are accepted get

Submitted by rpcvlawson on March 23, 2012 - 3:45pm.

Those who are accepted get sworn to radio silence for a while, so you won't be hearing from anyone on that score until CW gives the okay.

Some of us who are complaining about being rejected might even be lying.

Not me, of course.

:D

Well, we're hearing a lot

Submitted by JessN on March 23, 2012 - 10:10am.

Well, we're hearing a lot from those who didn't get in...how about those who did? I'd like to give out some Congratulations now, please! Show yourselves!

I'd also like to be apart of

Submitted by JCKey618 on March 23, 2012 - 9:30am.

I'd also like to be apart of anyone's critique group. Shoot me an email at jckey618@gmail.com

I wasn't rejected! I was not

Submitted by JessN on March 23, 2012 - 7:16am.

I wasn't rejected! I was not accepted. Which, as an EXCELLENT post in some previous year thread pointed out, are two very different things. This wasn't our year, guys, but there is always next year. We have a whole year to grow and improve as writers and, when we finally do get that phonecall, we'll be glad we got in when we were ready to gain the most from the Clarion experience and not a moment before.

Yep, CW rejection came this

Submitted by Mary Garber on March 23, 2012 - 4:44am.

Yep, CW rejection came this morning. Well, this means I can afford World Fantasy Con in November, now. Anyone else here going? Good luck to those still waiting! And to my companions in rejection, KEEP WRITING! Maybe next year we'll get in. (fingers crossed)

Hi, super lurker here. Just

Submitted by zackbrown on March 23, 2012 - 1:54am.

Hi, super lurker here. Just got rejected as well. I went back to the story I submitted, expecting to see how stupid I was for thinking it was worthy. But I still... like it. I'm not sure why it was rejected, maybe in a year I'll be a better writer and see why. Or it could be just the wrong story in front of the wrong people: success in writing is the luck of getting the right story in front of the right person, I think.

And rejection didn't hurt as bad as I thought. I'll keep submitting the story and see if my feelings are true and that it will get accepted, somewhere. I encourage everyone else to do the same. At the end of the day, it's just one rejection. Even if it's someone saying no to something you were looking forward to. It's just a rejection. I hope those who do get in have a blast. Good luck!

Noticed. Very nice tweets.

Submitted by rpcvlawson on March 22, 2012 - 10:45pm.

Noticed. Very nice tweets. And true. If GRRM applied as a student, perhaps he'd be rejected too. Who knows? All established authors get rejected 100s of times. Just gotta persevere.

Yeah, I wasn't kidding about

Submitted by PussInBoots on March 22, 2012 - 11:03pm.

Yeah, I wasn't kidding about that, either! I mean most of what I said was jokes, but the part about instructors not getting in if they applied anonymously as students? I absolutely believe that.

Like you said, all established authors get rejected lots--and most of them still get rejections even after they're bestsellers. There are books they want to write that no one will buy; there are screenplays they write that their agents give up on or let collect dust; and there are anthologies they get invited to, but the editor chooses not to take the story they wrote for it. (So Ms. Bestseller is stuck trying to sell something she wrote just for "The Mermaids of Manhattan Time Travel Anthology" or "Welcome to the Punhouse: A Tribute to Xanth.")

I like the idea of a slew of

Submitted by jsmthng on March 23, 2012 - 9:39am.

I like the idea of a slew of applications from such potential students as Larry Rosenblum, Giro Hoto, George R. R. Morten, etc.

I'm trying to be supportive

Submitted by PussInBoots on March 22, 2012 - 10:40pm.

I'm trying to be supportive on the Twitter tag #clarionwest without letting my friends know I applied. >_< This is hard. (And probably weird, but hey, I am who I am!)

The rejection from Shimmer

Submitted by rpcvlawson on March 22, 2012 - 10:33pm.

The rejection from Shimmer should be framed--along with everything else you've ever written, Cory. :D The Comic-Con...I got very lucky with those during CNTL+C/CNTL+V-GATE. As for the form rejection from Clarion...it's a form rejection. I'm totally fine with them; I've given out several myself. They're necessary. I just don't plan on taking it to heart--pro or con. As for being an early rejection or not--you're right. I have no way of knowing. That's just an assumption I made, perhaps erroneously. Still, with mid-April being the target, I think I could be right. In any event, it doesn't matter. I tried, and I'm glad I did. Now I can plan my summer...and keep writing. Off to midnight showing of Hunger Games! Have fun, all. Best wishes to those who get in, and hugs to those who don't!

Add me to the list of

Submitted by JCKey618 on March 22, 2012 - 10:25pm.

Add me to the list of rejections.

I got my rejection

Submitted by rpcvlawson on March 22, 2012 - 9:20pm.

I got my rejection too: http://llambertlawson.com/2012/03/22/rejection-61-clarionwest Oh well. I have 4-day + preview night tickets for Comic-Con, so that's some consolation.

Just chiming in to agree with

Submitted by candy_luminous on March 22, 2012 - 10:41pm.

Just chiming in to agree with everyone else - there are two kinds of rejection letters they send, and you got the better kind. (I got the "we hope you have a productive summer" kind, you got the "our readers ranked your work highly" kind.) I would feel ok about it!

I'm with JCKey18. You may

Submitted by PussInBoots on March 22, 2012 - 9:48pm.

I'm with JCKey18. You may remember a nice rejection from Shimmer you posted awhile back that you seemed to believe was true (and it was--I should know!). I think you should give the same benefit of the doubt to what you heard from CW. :)

P.S. Jealous of your Comic Con tickets. >:D

Lawson, I read your blog post

Submitted by JCKey618 on March 22, 2012 - 9:25pm.

Lawson, I read your blog post and I would say don't throw away their comment so quickly! Of course, it could be just a form rejection, but I don't think it's an 'early' rejection, as around this time in the previous years everyone already knew. It seems like they prepare everything/finalize the lists and then just let everyone now in 1-2 waves.

All that said, you know your submission better than I, just commenting that you could have very well been highly ranked!

PS: I like the aesthetics of your blog.

I like Chris' idea. I'm

Submitted by PussInBoots on March 22, 2012 - 9:16pm.

I like Chris' idea. I'm thinking about writing a story based on the suspense in this forum, where there are more people that want something than can have it, and they all deserve it. I like how amazing it is that everyone here has been so supportive of one another even though we're actually competing.

Actually someone named Collins already wrote that book and it's a movie now >:| haha But seriously I want to use it in a short story, because it FEELS like we're in a story, doesn't it? We should all write something using this experience--that way we can make it serve us.

I got rejected as well, good

Submitted by SerDeklayn on March 22, 2012 - 8:54pm.

I got rejected as well, good luck to all the rest of the applicants.

And now the real nervousness

Submitted by cnickolascarlson on March 22, 2012 - 8:29pm.

And now the real nervousness sets in.

Sorry to hear of your rejection, I know it stings. Apply next year, though, and keep on trying. And send stuff out in the meantime. The worst thing anyone can say is "no."