{"id":1773,"date":"2014-05-04T13:16:39","date_gmt":"2014-05-04T12:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/?p=1773"},"modified":"2014-05-04T13:16:39","modified_gmt":"2014-05-04T12:16:39","slug":"uog-novel-writing-contest-deadline-midnight-on-may-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/2014\/05\/04\/uog-novel-writing-contest-deadline-midnight-on-may-9\/","title":{"rendered":"UoG Novel Writing Contest Deadline: Midnight on May 9!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2019\/01\/stack-of-novels.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1774 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2019\/01\/stack-of-novels.jpg?resize=204%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Stack of Novels\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>There&#8217;s less than a week to go until the deadline for the inaugural University of Gloucestershire Novel Writing Contest, so now that the majority of your assignments have been handed in, it&#8217;s time to tackle that novel extract.\u00a0 Full details are available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/novel-writing-contest\/\">contest guidelines page<\/a>, but for those who want a quick recap here&#8217;s the lowdown: the contest is open to any UoG student, undergrad or postgrad, registered on a Creative Writing module this year.\u00a0 It&#8217;s also open to our grads of 2013, since the idea arose during their time with us.\u00a0 To be eligible, you have to send the judges a 3,000-word extract and a 1,000-word synopsis by midnight on Friday, May 9.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve already received some great submissions, but are looking for more.\u00a0 The shortlisted entries will be sent to literary agent Becky Thomas, at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxmason.com\/\">Fox Mason<\/a>, who will pick the top three.\u00a0 Those winners will receive a professional industry critique, as well as cash prizes.\u00a0 So brew some coffee, chain yourself to your writing desk, and get to work.\u00a0 Good luck and see you in the slushpile!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s less than a week to go until the deadline for the inaugural University of Gloucestershire Novel Writing Contest, so now that the majority of your assignments have been handed in, it&#8217;s time to tackle that novel extract.\u00a0&#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-1773","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\/1773","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=1773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}