{"id":790,"date":"2008-06-09T23:40:36","date_gmt":"2008-06-09T23:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/09\/the-orange-prize-and-other-things-i-keep-up-with\/"},"modified":"2010-09-24T16:30:20","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T16:30:20","slug":"the-orange-prize-and-other-things-i-keep-up-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/09\/the-orange-prize-and-other-things-i-keep-up-with\/","title":{"rendered":"the orange prize.  and other things i keep up with."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week the winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction was announced &#8211;  British author Rose Tremain&#8217;s novel <em>The Road Home<\/em>.  Other shortlisted nominees: Nancy Huston, <em>Fault Lines<\/em>; Sadie Jones, <em>The Outcast<\/em>; Charlotte Mendelson, <em>When We Were Bad<\/em>; Heather O&#8217;Neill, <em>Lullibies for Little Criminals<\/em>; and Patricia Wood, <em>Lottery<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>The Bridgeport Prize International Creative Writing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bridportprize.org.uk\/index.htm\"target=_blank>Competition<\/a> closes at the end of the month.  <\/p>\n<p>Joyce Carol Oates&#8217; new <a href=\"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/books\/9780061547485\/My_Sister_My_Love\/index.aspx\"target=blank>novel<\/a> is out on 24th June.  My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skylar Rampike, is a satirical, fictionalised re-telling of the Jon Benet Ramsey case. <\/p>\n<p>Vote for the Best of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themanbookerprize.com\/news\/vote\"\"target=_blank>Booker Prize<\/a>.  But do it before 8th July.  On the shortlist: Pat Barker\u2019s <em>The Ghost Road<\/em>; Peter Carey\u2019s <em>Oscar and Lucinda<\/em>; JM Coetzee\u2019s <em>Disgrace<\/em>; J G Farrell\u2019s <em>The Siege of Krishnapur<\/em>; Nadine Gordimer\u2019s <em>The Conservationist<\/em>; and Salman Rushdie\u2019s <em>Midnight\u2019s Children<\/em>. <\/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>Last week the winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction was announced &#8211; British author Rose Tremain&#8217;s novel The Road Home. Other shortlisted nominees: Nancy Huston, Fault Lines; Sadie Jones, The Outcast; Charlotte Mendelson, When We Were Bad; Heather O&#8217;Neill, Lullibies for Little Criminals; and Patricia Wood, Lottery. The Bridgeport Prize International Creative Writing<!-- 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],"tags":[62,33],"class_list":["post-790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hum-drum","tag-joyce-carol-oates","tag-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790","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=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3141,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions\/3141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}