{"id":3391,"date":"2016-11-21T21:15:24","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T21:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/?p=3391"},"modified":"2016-11-21T21:15:24","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T21:15:24","slug":"2016-uog-novel-writing-contest-shortlist-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/2016\/11\/21\/2016-uog-novel-writing-contest-shortlist-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 UoG Novel Writing Contest Shortlist Announced!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-2889 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2019\/01\/static1-squarespace-com.gif?resize=467%2C113&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"static1.squarespace.com\" width=\"467\" height=\"113\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right, folks.\u00a0 The long wait is over: our in-house judges have read through this year&#8217;s manuscript submissions to the UoG Novel Writing Contest and have whittled it down to a shortlist of six.\u00a0 Submissions were anonymous, and these six will be sent on to our external\u00a0judge,\u00a0literary agent Becky Thomas, of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnsonandalcock.co.uk\/\">Johnson &amp; Alcock Literary Agency <\/a>in London.\u00a0 This year&#8217;s shortlist includes a mix of undergraduate and postgraduate students.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll have our fingers crossed for everybody, and hope to announce the finalists and overall winner at this year&#8217;s anthology launch (more on this shortly!).<\/p>\n<p>For now, in alphabetical order by author (followed by year of study at time of submission)\u00a0 here is the <strong>The 2016 UoG Novel Writing Contest Shortlist:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>All The Things We Knew<\/em> by Senja Andrejevic (MA)<\/li>\n<li><em>The Enlightenment Effect<\/em> by Loz Apperly (2nd year)<\/li>\n<li><em>Half-Life<\/em> by Heather Cripps (3rd year)<\/li>\n<li><em>Winter and Spain<\/em> by Sam James (2nd year)<\/li>\n<li><em>Mayflies<\/em> by Pamela Keevil (MA)<\/li>\n<li><em>Mama<\/em> by Mark Webber (MA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s right, folks.\u00a0 The long wait is over: our in-house judges have read through this year&#8217;s manuscript submissions to the UoG Novel Writing Contest and have whittled it down to a shortlist of six.\u00a0 Submissions were anonymous, and&#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":[87,88,255,256],"class_list":["post-3391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-competitions","tag-contests","tag-novel-writing","tag-novel-writing-contest"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3391","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=3391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}