{"id":1059,"date":"2009-05-07T16:57:13","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T16:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/07\/win-a-trip-to-the-orange-prize-for-fiction-awards-ceremony\/"},"modified":"2009-08-15T15:47:05","modified_gmt":"2009-08-15T15:47:05","slug":"win-a-trip-to-the-orange-prize-for-fiction-awards-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/07\/win-a-trip-to-the-orange-prize-for-fiction-awards-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"win a trip to the orange prize for fiction awards ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian asks you to write the first 150 words of a novel for the chance to win a hotel stay in London with Orange award ceremony tickets, books and a Blackberry<\/p>\n<p>The Guardian has teamed with Kate Mosse, the author of Labyrinth and co-founder and honorary director of the Orange prize, to offer budding writers the chance to win a top prize in the Guardian Orange First Words competition.<\/p>\n<p><center><img src='http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/orange-2009-shortlist.jpg' alt='Orange Prize for Fiction 2009 Shortlist' \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Kate has come up with the title of a new novel &#8211; The Letting Go. All you need to do is write the first paragraph (up to 150 words) before the closing date of midnight on Monday May 18 2009. The Guardian will whittle down a shortlist of 10 intros and Kate will pick the winner and two runners-up, which will be published on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/\"target=_blank>Guardian website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>First prize is two tickets to the Orange prize for fiction awards ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall on June 3, with travel to London (from the UK) and an overnight stay in a luxury central London hotel, a Blackberry Pearl 8120 and a complete set of the Orange award for new writers 2009 shortlist. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/competition\/2009\/may\/05\/orange-prize-for-fiction\"target=_blank>Enter Now<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian asks you to write the first 150 words of a novel for the chance to win a hotel stay in London with Orange award ceremony tickets, books and a Blackberry The Guardian has teamed with Kate Mosse, the author of Labyrinth and co-founder and honorary director of the Orange prize, to offer budding<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hum-drum","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}