{"id":1685,"date":"2014-03-09T11:46:19","date_gmt":"2014-03-09T11:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/?p=1685"},"modified":"2014-03-09T11:46:19","modified_gmt":"2014-03-09T11:46:19","slug":"inaugural-uog-novel-writing-contest-officially-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/2014\/03\/09\/inaugural-uog-novel-writing-contest-officially-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"Inaugural UoG Novel Writing Contest Officially Launched!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2019\/01\/writing-a-novel.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-1686\" alt=\"writing-a-novel\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2019\/01\/writing-a-novel.jpg?resize=195%2C260&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"195\" height=\"260\" \/><\/a>After months of build-up, the wait is over.\u00a0 On Thursday, we sent a representative from our lecturing team down to London to meet with literary agent Becky Thomas, of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxmason.com\/\">Fox Mason Agency<\/a>, to confirm plans, and finalize the rules, for our first annual University of Gloucestershire Novel Writing Contest.\u00a0 Everything is now in place, and we are both happy and thankful to have Becky acting as our judge this year.\u00a0 As of today, the contest is officially launched, and we are now accepting submissions.\u00a0 For further info on eligibility, guidelines, and how to enter, please refer to our <a href=\"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/novel-writing-contest\/\">contest page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Since the end of term is a busy time all around, we&#8217;ve decided to give entrants until after Easter to submit their extracts.\u00a0 The final deadline is midnight on Friday May 9th, 2014.\u00a0 Your writing desk awaits, and the countdown has begun.\u00a0 It&#8217;s time to tie yourself to your chair, and get writing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After months of build-up, the wait is over.\u00a0 On Thursday, we sent a representative from our lecturing team down to London to meet with literary agent Becky Thomas, of the Fox Mason Agency, to confirm plans, and finalize&#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-1685","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\/1685","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=1685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}