{"id":5160,"date":"2009-09-08T10:02:08","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T09:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=5160"},"modified":"2010-08-23T10:15:38","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T09:15:38","slug":"war-of-the-words-shortlist-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/war-of-the-words-shortlist-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"War Of The Words shortlist announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/warofthewords2-300x1911.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5161\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"warofthewords2-300x1911\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/warofthewords2-300x1911.jpg\" alt=\"warofthewords2-300x1911\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The War Of The Words competition has closed, the hundreds of entries have been read, and finally, Tor UK and SciFiNow are happy to announce that the shortlist has been drawn up for who will go ahead to the final stages of the contest.<\/p>\n<p>Although the original plan for War Of The Words was to have a shortlist of only five, the quality that we received from all corners of the world prompted us to expand that to ten, to accurately represent the best of the many stories we\u2019ve had the pleasure of reading. What this competition has demonstrated to us, more than anything else, is that the spirit of science fiction and fantasy is still very much alive and kicking, and the literary scene for both genres still has incredible potential to offer. It wasn\u2019t easy to narrow our choices down to just ten, but after weeks of deliberation, it\u2019s ready.<\/p>\n<p>The shortlist for the 2009 War Of The Words competition is, in no particular order:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">1. The Sun Song \u2013 Andrew Tisbert<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">2. The Nemesis List \u2013 RJ Frith<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">3. Mech \u2013 Jim Keen<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">4. Children Of Yaltza \u2013 Kerrie Maxwell<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">5. Pale Queen\u2019s Courtyard \u2013 Marcin Wrona<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">6. Evacuee \u2013 Paula Hadlum<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">7. Thorn \u2013 Steff Green<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">8. The Darkness Kept \u2013 Lamar Giles<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">9. The Barocles Codicil \u2013 Susan Sarapuk<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">10. Creations \u2013 William Mitchell<\/p>\n<p>The shortlisted entrants have already been notified, and we at SciFiNow and Tor UK would like to offer our heartfelt congratulations for reaching it this far, against incredible odds. We\u2019d also like to offer our thanks to those who entered but didn\u2019t make the shortlist \u2013 it takes great courage to put your work to an audience, and the level of quality that we encountered while reading through the entries was astounding.<\/p>\n<p>The final stage of the competition is now underway, and the winner of War Of The Words will be announced on 25 November 2009 both on <a href=\"..\/\">www.scifinow.co.uk<\/a> and in the pages of the magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten authors in the running for publishing prize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[1624,140,3],"tags":[1034,722],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/warofthewords2-300x1911.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}