{"id":2991,"date":"2006-06-08T00:40:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-08T00:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2991"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:25:27","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:25:27","slug":"go-kirkus-go-kirkus-its-your-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2991","title":{"rendered":"Go Kirkus! Go Kirkus! It&#8217;s Your Birthday!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/kirkusreviews\/awards\/index.jsp\">Kirkus website<\/a> (and thanks to the SCBWI e-newsletter for the tip):<\/p>\n<p>Kirkus Reviews, the leading pre-publication book-review journal, has officially launched its second year of the annual search for the Next Big Literary Star. &#8220;For this project, Kirkus has turned its well-known abilities in the area of literary criticism and analysis to finding a brand-new voice,&#8221; said Jerome Kramer, Kirkus Reviews Editor-in-Chief. &#8220;You might call it American Idol for the book world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kirkus is now accepting submissions for the 2006-2007 literary award, with the winning manuscript to be published by a major New York publisher. To enter your completed yet unpublished, full-length (45,000+ words) novel or short-story collection, please follow the submission guidelines for a chance to win a publishing contract.<\/p>\n<p>The early-bird deadline is October 31, and the fee until then is $135. So get cracking! The contest is open to anyone who has NOT yet published a novel or short-story collection. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/kirkusreviews\/awards\/index.jsp\">More details here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm&#8230;I sense a late-October personal deadline for my novel revision&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Kirkus website (and thanks to the SCBWI e-newsletter for the tip): Kirkus Reviews, the leading pre-publication book-review journal, has officially launched its&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2,10],"class_list":["post-2991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-af","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3545,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991\/revisions\/3545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}