{"id":4051,"date":"2017-11-30T20:23:55","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T20:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/?p=4051"},"modified":"2017-11-30T20:23:55","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T20:23:55","slug":"uog-novel-contest-2017-shortlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/2017\/11\/30\/uog-novel-contest-2017-shortlist\/","title":{"rendered":"UoG Novel Contest 2017 Shortlist!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-2889 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2019\/01\/static1-squarespace-com.gif?resize=620%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"static1.squarespace.com\" width=\"620\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Following on from our previous announcement about this year\u2019s anthology launch, we\u2019re pleased to follow it up with equally exciting news: the shortlist for this year\u2019s UoG Novel Writing Contest is here.\u00a0 The six worthy contenders have had their submissions forwarded anonymously to literary agent Becky Thomas, of the Johnson and Alcock Agency in London.\u00a0 Becky will pick our 1<sup>st<\/sup>, 2<sup>nd<\/sup>, and 3<sup>rd<\/sup> prize winners, who will receive cashes prizes of \u00a3100, \u00a350, and \u00a325 respectively.\u00a0 These will be announced at the launch of Shadows: New Writing VI, on Wednesday December 13<sup>th<\/sup>, in Week 12.\u00a0 In alphabetical order (by name) the shortlisted entrants are\u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2018Siren Call\u2019 by Rachel Clements (MA)<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Neon Princess\u2019 by Oli Cowmeadow (BA)<\/li>\n<li>\u2018I Am Not Naked: A Novel of Lebanon and Syria\u2019 by Sleiman El Hajj (PhD)<\/li>\n<li>\u2018The Prodigal Adventures of Medard and Levine\u2019 by Sam James (BA)<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Coffee and Midnight\u2019 by Jemma O\u2019Donovan (BA)<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Gerald Comes of Age\u2019 by Mark Webber (MA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Congratulations to all the shortlisted entrants, and thank you very much to everybody who entered.\u00a0 We look forward to launch night, and the announcement of the winners!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following on from our previous announcement about this year\u2019s anthology launch, we\u2019re pleased to follow it up with equally exciting news: the shortlist for this year\u2019s UoG Novel Writing Contest is here.\u00a0 The six worthy contenders have had&#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-4051","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\/4051","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=4051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}