{"id":7229,"date":"2012-04-27T08:15:09","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T13:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=7229"},"modified":"2012-04-29T02:12:16","modified_gmt":"2012-04-29T07:12:16","slug":"star-wanderers-on-hold-with-wtof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/star-wanderers-on-hold-with-wtof\/","title":{"rendered":"“On hold” with WOTF"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have some interesting news. \u00a0My first quarter submission to the Writers of the Future contest<\/a> has been put “on hold,” following the untimely passing<\/a> of the contest’s coordinating judge, K.D. Wentworth. \u00a0Here’s the email I received this morning:<\/p>\n

Dear Entrant,<\/p>\n

I wanted to let you know that we have a delay in the handling of the 1st quarter due to the loss of our coordinating judge, K.D. Wentworth to cancer last week. Please bare with us while we get over this difficult time and organize the continuance of the contest. We do have another judge that is taking over and will make that annoucement soon.<\/p>\n

Your story was placed in the hold category while K.D. was reading the hard copy submissions. You will be notified in the next month where you stand.<\/p>\n

I’m sure you can understand the delay and thank you for being patient.<\/p>\n

Best,<\/p>\n

Joni Labaqui- Contest Director<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From what I understand, this means that K.D. read my story and didn’t assign it a rejection or honorable mention, but put it in a pile of stories to read leader. \u00a0It’s possible, of course, that the story could still receive a flat rejection, but it appears that most of the rejections have already gone out, so that’s probably unlikely.<\/p>\n

The story I submitted is the first part of a novel\u00a0which I hope to publish as soon as I hear back from the contest. \u00a0If it wins or makes published finalist, however, those plans might be put on hold. \u00a0I’ll let you know more as it happens.<\/p>\n

If I do win, I’ll probably end up spending all the prize money just to come back to the States to accept the award. \u00a0My Georgian co-teachers think that’s hilarious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have some interesting news. \u00a0My first quarter submission to the Writers of the Future contest has been put “on hold,” following the untimely passing of the contest’s coordinating judge, K.D. Wentworth. \u00a0Here’s the email I received this morning: Dear Entrant, I wanted to let you know that we have a delay in the handling… Continue reading “On hold” with WOTF<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[857],"tags":[164,46,247],"class_list":["post-7229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sw","tag-contests","tag-goals-and-plans","tag-writers-of-the-future","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-1SB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7229"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7232,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7229\/revisions\/7232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}