{"id":577,"date":"2012-01-18T16:43:07","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T16:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/?p=577"},"modified":"2012-01-18T16:43:07","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T16:43:07","slug":"contest-for-young-writers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/2012\/01\/18\/contest-for-young-writers\/","title":{"rendered":"Contest For Young Writers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those students who&#8217;ve just handed in stories for assignments, and are feeling particularly confident, you might consider taking it further and submitting your work to the contest being run by Gentlemen Press &#8211; a small press publisher based in Birmingham.  They aren&#8217;t offering payment, but winners will be published in their anthology, and receive free copies of the publication &#8211; as well as being invited to attend the launch.  However, <strong>the contest is limited to writers 21 and under<\/strong> (based anywhere in the UK).  It also has specific guidelines regarding subject matter.  They say:<\/p>\n<p>The title of the anthology is <em>Objection to Perfection<\/em> and entrants are encouraged to use this title as a starting point for their pieces. Below you will find a list of topics that you can focus on for your short story. The winners will be the most creative writers whether it\u2019s writing in email or texting format or submitting a story that is backwards this is a chance to play with your words.<\/p>\n<p>Body image<br \/>\nPuberty<br \/>\nFriends and relationships<br \/>\nBeliefs and tradition<br \/>\nValues and expectations<br \/>\nBullying and repression\/oppression<br \/>\nSchool and education<br \/>\nRebellion<\/p>\n<p>You can find out more on the Gentlemen Press website here: <a href=\"http:\/\/gentlemenpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/gentlemenpress.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those students who&#8217;ve just handed in stories for assignments, and are feeling particularly confident, you might consider taking it further and submitting your work to the contest being run by Gentlemen Press &#8211; a small press publisher&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[87,293,331],"class_list":["post-577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-competitions","tag-publishing-opportunities","tag-short-fiction"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577","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=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}