{"id":2523,"date":"2016-01-14T08:17:15","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T08:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/?p=2523"},"modified":"2016-01-14T08:17:15","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T08:17:15","slug":"catching-up-on-student-achievements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/2016\/01\/14\/catching-up-on-student-achievements\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching Up On 2015 Student Achievements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a new year, and the new Semester is looming.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll soon be posting about some exciting Semester 2 events and opportunities for UoG writing students, and in the meantime we thought it would be a good time to take stock, and look back on a few student achievements from 2015 that haven&#8217;t yet been announced on our blog.\u00a0 First up, the poets have been as busy and successful as ever, with both Amy Ford and Taylor Edmonds having had their work published on <a href=\"https:\/\/iamnotasilentpoet.wordpress.com\/\">I Am Not a Silent Poet<\/a>, so a big congrats to them both.\u00a0 Not to be outdone, the prose writers have had success as well: MA student Rod Griffiths was selected as one of the winners in WordFactory&#8217;s Neil Gaiman Fable Competition, which was judged by Toby Litt.\u00a0 Rod&#8217;s story is now available on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewordfactory.tv\/site\/winning-stories\/\">competition winners page<\/a>.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re feeling inspired by these successes, why not try your hand at submitting your work?\u00a0 A perfect opportunity is forthcoming, in the next <a href=\"http:\/\/stroudshortstories.blogspot.co.uk\/\">Stroud Short Stories Competition<\/a>, where our students (including Rod) have had success in the past.\u00a0 The deadline is March 19th, the word cap is 1,500, and full details are available <a href=\"http:\/\/stroudshortstories.blogspot.co.uk\/\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 Happy New Year, and welcome back to the fray &#8211; it&#8217;s time to get writing again!<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1920\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2019\/01\/stroud-short-stories-image-2.jpg?resize=820%2C545&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"stroud short stories image 2\" width=\"820\" height=\"545\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a new year, and the new Semester is looming.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll soon be posting about some exciting Semester 2 events and opportunities for UoG writing students, and in the meantime we thought it would be a good time&#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-2523","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\/2523","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=2523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}