{"id":2453,"date":"2015-10-13T16:21:35","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T15:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/?p=2453"},"modified":"2015-10-13T16:21:35","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T15:21:35","slug":"novel-writing-contest-shortlist-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/2015\/10\/13\/novel-writing-contest-shortlist-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Novel Writing Contest Shortlist!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, the much anticipated shortlist for the 2015 UoG Novel Writing Contest has been revealed.\u00a0 It was a competitive field and the judges did not approach it lightly: it required much deliberating and soul-searching and debating before they eventually came to a decision.\u00a0 But that moment has come.\u00a0 Before pulling back the curtain, we would like to thank all those who entered &#8211; the standards were very high.\u00a0 As with our inaugural competition, we have narrowed the field down to a <strong>shortlist of six<\/strong> to be sent on to literary agent Becky Thomas, who is our finals judge and will pick the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winner (each of whom will receive a cash prize, and critique).\u00a0 In alphabetical order by author, the shortlist of six is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Eva<\/em> by Phil Bowne<\/li>\n<li><em>Year<\/em> <em>One<\/em> by Heather Cripps<\/li>\n<li><em>The Masterpiece<\/em> by Rod Griffiths<\/li>\n<li><em>Paper Boats<\/em> by Keely O&#8217;Shaughnessy<\/li>\n<li><em>Claro<\/em> by Meg Paul<\/li>\n<li><em>All the Things We Knew<\/em> by Senja <span id=\"spnFrom\" class=\"rwRRO\" title=\"senja.liverpool@yahoo.co.uk\">Andrejevic<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Congratulations to all who entered, and in particular our shortlisted entrants.\u00a0 The three winners will be announced at this year&#8217;s anthology launch, for <em>Compass: New Writing IV<\/em>, on Tuesday October 27th at 6.45 p.m. in TC001\/TC002A.\u00a0 So come along to what&#8217;s shaping up to be a brilliant event.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2019\/01\/book.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1784 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2019\/01\/book.png?resize=660%2C232&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"book\" width=\"660\" height=\"232\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, the much anticipated shortlist for the 2015 UoG Novel Writing Contest has been revealed.\u00a0 It was a competitive field and the judges did not approach it lightly: it required much deliberating and soul-searching and debating before&#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":[87,88,245,255],"class_list":["post-2453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-competitions","tag-contests","tag-new-writing","tag-novel-writing"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453","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=2453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}