{"id":630,"date":"2008-12-02T04:03:34","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T08:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=630"},"modified":"2008-12-02T01:04:29","modified_gmt":"2008-12-02T05:04:29","slug":"more-awards-and-nominations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=630","title":{"rendered":"More Awards and Nominations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just found out about a relatively new award for prose fiction under 1000 words written in English.\u00c2\u00a0 It is called the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microaward.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Micro Award<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 The nominations for the 2nd Annual Micro Award are due by December 31st, 2008.\u00c2\u00a0 Only short stories (no poems, non-fiction pieces, or translations) are accepted.\u00c2\u00a0 The author of the winning story receives a trophy and $50.\u00c2\u00a0 The winner of the 1st Annual Micro Award was Bruce Holland Rogers with his piece titled &#8220;Reconstruction Work&#8221; which was in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flashfictiononline.com\/issue200712.html\" target=\"_blank\">December 2007<\/a> issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flashfictiononline.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Flash Fiction Online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Last year&#8217;s grand prize winner of the 2008 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award was Bill Loehfelm with his novel titled <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fresh-Kills-Bill-Loehfelm\/dp\/0399155317\" target=\"_blank\">Fresh Kills<\/a><\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 Amazon and Penguin Group (USA) are going to launch the 2009 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award on February 2, 2009.\u00c2\u00a0 Between February 2nd and February 9th, up to 10,000 novelists can enter their unpublished novels on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/abna\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon&#8217;s site<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 If you are a writer this may be a good contest to motivate you to re-edit and polish the novel that has been sitting on your hard drive untouched for the last six months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just found out about a relatively new award for prose fiction under 1000 words written in English.\u00c2\u00a0 It is called the Micro Award.\u00c2\u00a0 The nominations for the 2nd Annual Micro Award are due by December 31st, 2008.\u00c2\u00a0 Only short stories (no poems, non-fiction pieces, or translations) are accepted.\u00c2\u00a0 The author of the winning story&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=630\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More Awards and Nominations<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-award","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":633,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions\/633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}