{"id":947,"date":"2015-03-05T00:21:38","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T00:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fictioninternational.sdsu.edu\/wordpress\/?page_id=947"},"modified":"2016-07-28T19:12:12","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T19:12:12","slug":"contest","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fictioninternational.sdsu.edu\/wordpress\/contest\/","title":{"rendered":"contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"cover\" src=\"http:\/\/fictioninternational.sdsu.edu\/VirusPage.jpg\" alt=\"VirusImage\" width=\"299\" height=\"448\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 0px;\">Short Short Fiction Contest<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Submission Period<\/strong>: <s>January 15-April 22<\/s> CLOSED<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fee:<\/strong>\u00a0$10<\/li>\n<li>First prize is $500, publication on our website, and a free issue of\u00a0<i>Fiction International<\/i>.<br \/>\nSecond and third prize winners will be published on our website and receive a free issue of<br \/>\n<i>Fiction International<\/i>. Please submit online through\u00a0<strong>Submittable\u00a0<\/strong>at\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fictioninternational.submittable.com\/submit\">https:\/\/fictioninternational.submittable.com\/submit<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 0px;\"><b>2015 Theme: \u201cVirus\u201d<\/b><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>From biological entities to cultural memes to activist movements, viruses are everywhere. Submissions were\u00a0<strong>exactly<\/strong>\u00a0300 words (not including the title).<\/li>\n<li><b><br \/>\nFirst Place:<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Andrea Witzke Slot,\u00a0<a title=\"Talking Trojans\" href=\"https:\/\/fictioninternational.sdsu.edu\/wordpress\/contest\/talking-trojans\/\">\u201cTalking Trojans\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cTalking Trojans\u201d melds compression, humor, keen intelligence, and social awareness into a savory 300 words. The references to Roland Barthes and his fetishization of language, especially his\u00a0<i>Lover\u2019s Discourse<\/i>, is cunning and comical. Where is the virus? Perhaps it is in the lover\u2019s \u201cdiscourse,\u201d the language, however refined, which obscures the virulent spaces eroding between the words and all about us.<\/li>\n<li>\u2014Harold Jaffe, editor-in-chief,\u00a0<b><i>Fiction International<\/i><\/b><\/li>\n<li><b><br \/>\nSecond Place:<\/b><\/li>\n<li>James D Ellis,\u00a0<a title=\"It Went Viral\" href=\"https:\/\/fictioninternational.sdsu.edu\/wordpress\/contest\/it-went-viral\/\">\u201cIt Went Viral\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li><b><br \/>\nThird Place:<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Adam O&#8217;Fallon Price,\u00a0<a title=\"Mulewhipper Blues\" href=\"https:\/\/fictioninternational.sdsu.edu\/wordpress\/mulewhipper-blues\/\">\u201cMulewhipper Blues\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Short Short Fiction Contest Submission Period: January 15-April 22 CLOSED Fee:\u00a0$10 First prize is $500, publication on our website, and a free issue of\u00a0Fiction International. Second and third prize winners will be published on our website and receive a free issue of Fiction International. Please submit online through\u00a0Submittable\u00a0at\u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/fictioninternational.submittable.com\/submit &nbsp; 2015 Theme: \u201cVirus\u201d From biological entities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"issue_page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-947","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fictioninternational.sdsu.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fictioninternational.sdsu.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fictioninternational.sdsu.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fictioninternational.sdsu.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fictioninternational.sdsu.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=947"}],"version-history":[{"count":52,"href":"https:\/\/fictioninternational.sdsu.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1773,"href":"https:\/\/fictioninternational.sdsu.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/947\/revisions\/1773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fictioninternational.sdsu.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}