{"id":371,"date":"2015-08-17T16:49:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T16:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=371"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:43:09","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:43:09","slug":"cybils-call-for-judges-and-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=371","title":{"rendered":"Cybils Call for Judges AND Poetry Contest for NorCal Peeps!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time of year again&#8211;and while some of us are trying to ignore this godawful heat wave (it&#8217;s supposed to be 105 here today) there are indeed some welcome distractions out there, like the fact that it&#8217;s also CYBILS TIME!! The 2015 call for judges was just posted today, so if you are a children&#8217;s\/YA lit blogger and would like to join the first and most respected (I think) grassroots children&#8217;s book award in our (gasp) <b>10th year<\/b>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cybils.com\/2015\/08\/2015-cybils-call-for-judges.html\">go fill in the volunteer application form<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>The Northern California Women&#8217;s Music Festival is having a poetry contest in conjunction with the Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center, and the deadline is coming up soon&#8211;September 1. <b>ALL poets in Northern California are eligible<\/b> (dudes too) and entry for 2 poems is FREE! (Full disclosure: I&#8217;m involved in the contest behind the scenes, so you may hear about this again&#8230;) Anyway, if you fit the criteria, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mostpoetry.org\/contests\/northern-california-womens-music-festival\/\">here&#8217;s more information for you<\/a>. And check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northerncaliforniawomensmusicfestival.com\/\">Festival page<\/a>, too&#8211;it looks like it&#8217;ll be great, with headlining acts Tracy Bonham and Lita Ford.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s all I&#8217;ve got on this busy Monday. Some freelance work flooded in over the weekend, and I had a chapter to finish writing, so off I go to be industrious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time of year again&#8211;and while some of us are trying to ignore this godawful heat wave (it&#8217;s supposed to be 105 here&#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":[2,51,61,10],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-af","tag-contest-alert","tag-cybils-news","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","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=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8642,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions\/8642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}