{"id":1876,"date":"2014-07-16T14:10:45","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T13:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/?p=1876"},"modified":"2014-07-16T14:10:45","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T13:10:45","slug":"tylers-top-choice-again-uog-lecturer-wins-peoples-choice-award-for-wales-book-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/2014\/07\/16\/tylers-top-choice-again-uog-lecturer-wins-peoples-choice-award-for-wales-book-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyler&#8217;s top choice again: UoG lecturer wins people&#8217;s choice award for Wales Book of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2019\/01\/tyler-2014.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1877\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2019\/01\/tyler-2014.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>Creative Writing course leader <a title=\"Tyler\" href=\"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/profiles\/tyler\/\">Tyler<\/a> Keevil has\u00a0won the People&#8217;s Choice category of the 2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/walesbookoftheyear.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wales Book of the Year Awards<\/a> for his acclaimed second novel, <em>The Drive<\/em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.myriadeditions.com\/about\" target=\"_blank\">Myriad<\/a>).\u00a0A fast-paced and hilarious contemporary odyssey, <em>The Drive<\/em>\u00a0is an epic road novel, but it&#8217;s also a reflection on narrative and the act of story telling.<\/p>\n<p>At the prize ceremony on July 10th, Jasper Rees\u00a0said,\u00a0&#8216;I was the first to tell the other judges they had to read <em>The Drive<\/em>. I haven&#8217;t been as excited about reading a new writer since I read DBC Pierre&#8217;s <em>Vernon God Little<\/em>.&#8217;<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1260\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2019\/01\/the-drive-cover.jpg?resize=97%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Drive Cover\" width=\"97\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Myriad&#8217;s Senior Fiction Editor Vicky Blunden told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booktrade.info\/index.php\/showarticle\/54873\" target=\"_blank\">Booktrade.info<\/a>:\u00a0&#8216;We are incredibly proud of Tyler and his extraordinary wild ride of a novel, <em>The Drive<\/em>. It is that rare and special blend of powerful storytelling, adventure, pure comedy and all the romance of lost love and life on the road \u2013 a true page-turner. Tyler is a literary star in the making, and he richly deserves the honour of this award.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creative Writing course leader Tyler Keevil has\u00a0won the People&#8217;s Choice category of the 2014 Wales Book of the Year Awards for his acclaimed second novel, The Drive (Myriad).\u00a0A fast-paced and hilarious contemporary odyssey, The Drive\u00a0is an epic road&#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":[38,235,255,287,359,376,385],"class_list":["post-1876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-awards-and-achievements","tag-myriad","tag-novel-writing","tag-prose","tag-the-drive","tag-tyler-keevil","tag-wales-book-of-the-year"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876","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=1876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}