{"id":2478,"date":"2018-02-05T11:52:51","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T16:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/?p=2478"},"modified":"2018-02-05T11:53:58","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T16:53:58","slug":"reedsy-short-story-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2018\/02\/05\/reedsy-short-story-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Reedsy Short Story Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2018\/02\/05\/reedsy-short-story-contest\/bu-blog-image\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2479\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/crwr\/files\/2018\/02\/BU-Blog-image.jpg\" alt=\"BU - Blog image\" width=\"495\" height=\"259\" class=\"wp-image-2479 alignleft\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2018\/02\/BU-Blog-image.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2018\/02\/BU-Blog-image-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2018\/02\/BU-Blog-image-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2018\/02\/BU-Blog-image-1024x536.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">We&#8217;ve partnered with<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/reedsy.com\/about\"><span>Reedsy<\/span><\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>for a short story contest! The three best submissions will win an editorial assessment from editor Laura Mae Isaacman, who has worked with T.C. Boyle, Lara Vapnyar, Joyce Carol Oates, Noam Chomsky, and many others. Read more about her<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/reedsy.com\/laura-mae-isaacman\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">To submit,<strong><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>write a short story that begins with the following sentence: \u201cFirst place isn&#8217;t always where you want to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">15,000 words max<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Email your submission to bu@<span>reedsy<\/span>.com.\u00a0 The<span>\u00a0<\/span><span>Reedsy<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span>Short Story Contest runs from today (February 5th)\u00a0through March 5, 2018.\u00a0 Open to BU MFA students and program alumni.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Good luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve partnered with\u00a0Reedsy\u00a0for a short story contest! The three best submissions will win an editorial assessment from editor Laura Mae Isaacman, who has worked with T.C. Boyle, Lara Vapnyar, Joyce Carol Oates, Noam Chomsky, and many others. Read more about her\u00a0here. To submit,\u00a0write a short story that begins with the following sentence: \u201cFirst place isn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[556,858,954],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2478"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2484,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478\/revisions\/2484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}