{"id":4994,"date":"2012-09-08T19:19:15","date_gmt":"2012-09-08T09:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zenashapter.com\/blog\/?p=4994"},"modified":"2012-09-08T19:19:15","modified_gmt":"2012-09-08T09:19:15","slug":"i-won-first-place-three-years-in-a-row-yay-hat-trick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/i-won-first-place-three-years-in-a-row-yay-hat-trick\/","title":{"rendered":"I won first place… three years in a row! Yay \u2013 hat trick!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Winner \u2013 2012 Fellowship of Australian Writers \u2013 Manly!<\/p><\/div>\n

Three years in a row!<\/p>\n

Three different judges.<\/p>\n

Three separate wins of ‘first place’.<\/p>\n

Hat trick!<\/p>\n

I couldn’t believe it earlier today when, at a meeting of Manly’s Fellowship of Australian Writers, acting President Beatrice Yell read out the results for their 2012 Short Story Competition and I realised I’d won, again, three years in a row!<\/p>\n

Of course I hoped to win, but seriously… who wins three years in a row?<\/p>\n

Squeee! Me!<\/p>\n

My winning short story The Something Said<\/em> will be read aloud (by me) at the awards ceremony on Saturday 13th October at 2pm in Warringah Mall Library. Why not come along?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Three years in a row! Three different judges. Three separate wins of ‘first place’. Hat trick! I couldn’t believe it earlier today when, at a meeting of Manly’s Fellowship of Australian Writers, acting President Beatrice Yell read out the results for their 2012 Short Story Competition and I realised I’d\u2026<\/p>\n

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