Its goal is to provide an annual scholarship to enable writers of color to attend the Clarion West Writers Workshop and Clarion Writers' Workshop, descendants of the original Clarion Science Fiction Writers' Workshop in Clarion, Pennsylvania, where Butler got her start.
А летом 1970 года, под патронатом Харлана Эллисона, начала посещать знаменитый шестинедельный «Кларионский семинар» (Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Workshop) в городе Кларион (штат Пенсильвания).