{"id":67,"date":"2020-09-24T12:32:33","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T11:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/kwacadlibrary\/?p=67"},"modified":"2020-11-13T08:58:39","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T08:58:39","slug":"robin-whyte-creative-writing-award-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/kwacadlibrary\/2020\/09\/24\/robin-whyte-creative-writing-award-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Robin Whyte Creative Writing Award 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writing Competition is now open!<\/p>\n<p>Robin Whyte, who sadly died in 2015, was a much respected Irvine lawyer and a creative writer of poetry, lyrics and prose, as well as being an erudite and witty after-dinner speaker, not least as a past president of the prestigious Irvine Burns Club.<\/p>\n<p>As a tribute to Robin&#8217;s creativity,\u00a0 a<strong> trophy<\/strong> in the form of an open book crafted locally in oak and ash plus a <strong>cash prize of \u00a3200<\/strong> will be awarded for a <strong>fictional piece of creative writing of 1000 to 1500 words or for a poem of no less than 24 lines.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Entries are invited from local writers, Ayrshire born or based, amateur or professional, of sixteen years of age and over. The <strong>closing date is November 30th 2020.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The theme this year is\u00a0<strong>The Declaration!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Please note:<\/strong> Entries need to be typed in <strong>Word and in double spacing<\/strong> then emailed to\u00a0dmrwla2020@gmail.com<\/p>\n<p>or by post to 28, Greenside, Bourtreehill, Irvine KA11 1LP<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-68\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/public\/kwacadlibrary\/uploads\/sites\/18661\/2020\/09\/24123016\/competition.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"272\" height=\"272\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing Competition is now open! Robin Whyte, who sadly died in 2015, was a much respected Irvine lawyer and a creative writer of poetry, lyrics and prose, as well as being an erudite and witty after-dinner speaker, not least as a past president of the prestigious Irvine Burns Club. As a tribute to Robin&#8217;s creativity,\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/kwacadlibrary\/2020\/09\/24\/robin-whyte-creative-writing-award-2020\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Robin Whyte Creative Writing Award 2020<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4897,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-competition","tag-competition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/kwacadlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/kwacadlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/kwacadlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/kwacadlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4897"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/kwacadlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/kwacadlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/kwacadlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/kwacadlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/kwacadlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/kwacadlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}