{"id":1457,"date":"2014-01-27T12:44:32","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T12:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/?p=1457"},"modified":"2014-01-27T12:44:32","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T12:44:32","slug":"coming-soon-the-first-u-of-g-novel-writing-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/2014\/01\/27\/coming-soon-the-first-u-of-g-novel-writing-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming Soon: the first U of G Novel Writing Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2019\/01\/fox_mason_header.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1461\" alt=\"fox_mason_header\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2019\/01\/fox_mason_header.png?resize=410%2C210&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"410\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">Rumours have been circulating for awhile, and we can now officially confirm it: this year, in association with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxmason.com\/\">Fox Mason Ltd Literary Agency<\/a>, the Creative Writing programme here at the University of Gloucestershire will be launching the inaugural U of G Novel Writing Contest.\u00a0 We hope you\u2019re as excited about this as we are.\u00a0 Submissions won\u2019t open until next month, but we thought we\u2019d give you some forewarning so you can sharpen those pens.\u00a0 Here\u2019s the lowdown:<\/p>\n<p>Any student on our BA or MA programme is eligible to submit, as well as students studying for a PhD; in addition, any student taking one of our Creative Writing modules at the undergrad or postgrad level may also submit.\u00a0 All entries will be anonymous.\u00a0 The submissions that make the shortlist will be forwarded to literary agent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxmason.com\/about-us\/\">Becky Thomas<\/a>, of Fox Mason, who is the finals judge.\u00a0 Becky will select the 1<sup>st<\/sup>, 2<sup>nd<\/sup>, and 3<sup>rd<\/sup> place winners, and her team will provide each with a professional industry critique.\u00a0 The 1<sup>st<\/sup> place winner will receive \u00a3100 in prize money; 2nd place will receive \u00a350; and 3<sup>rd<\/sup> place will receive a \u00a325 book token.\u00a0 Pique your interest?\u00a0 Then check back in a few weeks time to see our contest rules and submission guidelines \u2013 and in the meantime, get writing!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2019\/01\/university-of-gloucestershire.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"University-of-Gloucestershire\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2019\/01\/university-of-gloucestershire.jpg?resize=479%2C117&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"479\" height=\"117\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rumours have been circulating for awhile, and we can now officially confirm it: this year, in association with the Fox Mason Ltd Literary Agency, the Creative Writing programme here at the University of Gloucestershire will be launching the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}