{"id":1461,"date":"2025-05-28T12:39:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T12:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ac\/HarlawAcademyLibraryBlog\/?p=1461"},"modified":"2025-05-28T13:00:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T13:00:03","slug":"gothic-aberdeen-short-story-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ac\/HarlawAcademyLibraryBlog\/2025\/05\/28\/gothic-aberdeen-short-story-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Gothic Aberdeen&#8221; short story competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writers aged 16+ are invited to write a gothic story inspired by the city of Aberdeen, with the chance to win \u00a3300.<br \/>\nThe competition winner and runner-up(s) will be announced at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waywordfestival.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2025 WayWORD Festival<\/a> in October.<\/p>\n<p>To enter, short stories between 3,000-4,000 words should be submitted as Word Documents or PDFs by the <strong>31st of July 2025<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for inspiration, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abdn.ac.uk\/collections\/whats-on\/22347\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fear and Fascination exhibition<\/a> at the University of Aberdeen&#8217;s Sir Duncan Rice Library.<\/p>\n<p>For more details, go to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waywordfestival.com\/aberdeen-gothic-competition-25\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">competition website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writers aged 16+ are invited to write a gothic story inspired by the city of Aberdeen, with the chance to win \u00a3300. The competition winner and runner-up(s) will be announced at the 2025 WayWORD Festival in October. To enter, short stories between 3,000-4,000 words should be submitted as Word Documents or PDFs by the 31st &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ac\/HarlawAcademyLibraryBlog\/2025\/05\/28\/gothic-aberdeen-short-story-competition\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Gothic Aberdeen&#8221; short story competition<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":971,"featured_media":1462,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1178,3198,7432],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-competitions","category-creative-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ac\/public\/HarlawAcademyLibraryBlog\/uploads\/sites\/685\/2025\/05\/28123404\/Capture.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ac\/HarlawAcademyLibraryBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ac\/HarlawAcademyLibraryBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ac\/HarlawAcademyLibraryBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ac\/HarlawAcademyLibraryBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/971"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ac\/HarlawAcademyLibraryBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1461"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ac\/HarlawAcademyLibraryBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1469,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ac\/HarlawAcademyLibraryBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461\/revisions\/1469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ac\/HarlawAcademyLibraryBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ac\/HarlawAcademyLibraryBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ac\/HarlawAcademyLibraryBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ac\/HarlawAcademyLibraryBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}