{"id":3198,"date":"2005-07-05T15:36:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-05T15:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=3198"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:25:03","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:25:03","slug":"4th-of-july-also-known-as-chinese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=3198","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 4th of July (also known as Chinese Pyrotechnology Appreciation Day) is over, and now we&#8217;re sitting down all too early with afterimages of fireworks burned on our retinas. Well, the happy consolations for the writer are thus: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartwriters.com\/index.2ts?page=2005winners\">SmartWriter&#8217;s 2005 Write It Now Contest<\/a> has announced its winners &#8212; and, in a burst of ubercool, has announced a short story contest as well. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartwriters.com\/index.2ts?page=winshorts\">rules<\/a> are posted on the SmartWriters website, and read them <em>carefully<\/em>, possums.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.writersdigest.com\">Writer&#8217;s Digest<\/a> is pulling out a new short story contest, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.writersdigest.com\/contests\/PopFiction\/\">WD Popular Fiction Awards<\/a>.  Um, so &#8220;popular fiction.&#8221; The antithesis, I guess, of literary fiction? Anyway, they&#8217;re looking at five categories: Romance, Mystery\/Crime Fiction, Sci-Fi\/Fantasy, Thriller\/Suspense and Horror. The Grand-Prize Winner will receive $2,500 clams, $100 worth of Writer&#8217;s Digest books and paraphenalia, plus a manuscript critique and marketing advice from a Writer&#8217;s Digest editor or advisory board member. Everyone who places gets a mention in Writer&#8217;s Digest magazine, which is a good way to get your name out there to sharp editorial assistants. The deadline is a reasonable distance away, and the fee isn&#8217;t expensive, either, which is always good to hear.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Fiction Open at our dearly beloved <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glimmertrainpress.com\">Glimmer Train Press<\/a> has a July 15 deadline, so there&#8217;s still time to enter that fabulous story you know is within you. Courage, dear ones. Crank up the a\/c, and once more into the breach!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 4th of July (also known as Chinese Pyrotechnology Appreciation Day) is over, and now we&#8217;re sitting down all too early with afterimages of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-3198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3338,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198\/revisions\/3338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}