{"id":2359,"date":"2011-09-01T09:36:53","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T23:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zenashapter.com\/blog\/?p=2359"},"modified":"2011-09-01T09:36:53","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T23:36:53","slug":"yay-i-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/yay-i-won\/","title":{"rendered":"Yay! I won!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>2011 Oberon Writing Competition<\/h3>\n<p>I&#8217;m thrilled to announce that I&#8217;ve just won first place in the 2011 Oberon Writing Competition, open prose section, with my short story <em>Invisible Dirt<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2392\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/happydance1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2392\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2392 \" title=\"happydance\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/happydance1-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/happydance1-300x201.jpg 300w, http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/happydance1.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2392\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hooooooray!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Yay! Woot woot!<\/p>\n<p>Distance thwarted my ability to attend the award ceremony, which took place\u00a0last Saturday in Oberon, over 200km away. But if I&#8217;d been there I would have thanked my hubbie for reading <em>Invisible Dirt<\/em> prior to my entering it in the competition and of course the organisers and judges of the competition. Competitions such as these mean the world to us writers. So thank you and&#8230; yay!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a full list of the results:<\/p>\n<p>PROSE<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2937\" style=\"width: 224px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/oberoncomp1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2937\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2937\" title=\"oberoncomp\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/oberoncomp1-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/oberoncomp1-214x300.jpg 214w, http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/oberoncomp1.jpg 357w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2937\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My fab certificate!<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>1st \u2013 Zena Shapter<\/strong><\/span><strong>, <em>Invisible Dirt<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n2nd \u2013 Bea Norrie, <em>1992<\/em><br \/>\nHighly Commended \u2013 M E (Leigh Glascott), <em>Rounders<\/em><\/p>\n<p>POETRY<\/p>\n<p>1st \u2013 George Clark, <em>Childhood Memories<\/em><br \/>\n2nd \u2013 Michele Fermanis-Winward, <em>Tailor Made<\/em><\/p>\n<p>JUNIOR PROSE<\/p>\n<p>1st \u2013 Chloe Swannel<br \/>\n2nd \u2013 Josie Schmitz<br \/>\nHighly Commended \u2013 Zoe Robinson and William Wilson<\/p>\n<p>JUNIOR POETRY<\/p>\n<p>1st \u2013 Jackson Denham<br \/>\n2nd \u2013 Rachael Swannell<br \/>\nHighly Commended \u2013 John Swannell and Trent Dwyer<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations everyone! Lets all do a happy dance together!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2011 Oberon Writing Competition I&#8217;m thrilled to announce that I&#8217;ve just won first place in the 2011 Oberon Writing Competition, open prose section, with my short story Invisible Dirt. Yay! Woot woot! Distance thwarted my ability to attend the award ceremony, which took place\u00a0last Saturday in Oberon, over 200km away.\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/yay-i-won\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[70,461,700],"class_list":["post-2359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-news","tag-award","tag-oberon-writing-competition","tag-win"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}