{"id":331,"date":"2013-10-10T17:39:25","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T06:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/?p=331"},"modified":"2013-10-10T17:39:25","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T06:39:25","slug":"the-2013-newcastle-poetry-prize-award-night-confirmed-for-october-12th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/2013\/10\/10\/the-2013-newcastle-poetry-prize-award-night-confirmed-for-october-12th\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2013 Newcastle Poetry Prize award night confirmed for October 12th."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma;\">The Newcastle Poetry Prize 2013 will be held on Saturday, 12<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0October at The Lock-Up Cultural Centre, 90 Hunter Street, Newcastle commencing at 4.00pm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma;\">The celebration, in its 32<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0year is a free event and welcomes individuals of all ages for an afternoon of conversation, canap\u00e9&#8217;s, and celebration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma;\">The Newcastle Poetry Prize is the longest running and most prestigious poetry award in the country, gaining over 600 submissions each year and offering an amazing first place prize of $12,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma;\">Winners will be announced on the night accompanied by a reading of the wining poems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma;\">Hosted by Hunter Writers Centre in partnership with major sponsor the University of Newcastle, the competition calls for submissions in March each year and is judged anonymously in July.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma;\">This year&#8217;s judges include nationally acclaimed author and poet Jean Kent and Professor of\u00a0English, Communications &amp; Cultural Studies\u00a0Dennis Haskell who is also a notable poet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma;\">Providing a valuable platform for writers to broaden readership and gain audiences from all around the country, a hardcopy anthology will also be unveiled and available for purchase on the night.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma;\">If you share a love of writing, language and all things literary you will not want to miss this major event.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma;\">For further information visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newcastlepoetryprize.com\/\">www.newcastlepoetryprize.com<\/a>\u00a0or phone Hunter Writers Centre on 02 49263485.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Newcastle Poetry Prize 2013 will be held on Saturday, 12th\u00a0October at The Lock-Up Cultural Centre, 90 Hunter Street, Newcastle commencing at 4.00pm. The celebration, in its 32nd\u00a0year is a free event and welcomes individuals of all ages for an afternoon of conversation, canap\u00e9&#8217;s, and celebration. The Newcastle Poetry Prize is the longest running and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/2013\/10\/10\/the-2013-newcastle-poetry-prize-award-night-confirmed-for-october-12th\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The 2013 Newcastle Poetry Prize award night confirmed for October 12th.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radio16"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}