{"id":15373,"date":"2020-10-06T16:57:49","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T16:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/?p=15373"},"modified":"2020-10-06T17:01:50","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T17:01:50","slug":"a-welcome-interruption-winners-read-and-inter-university-contest-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/2020\/10\/06\/a-welcome-interruption-winners-read-and-inter-university-contest-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"A welcome interruption: Winners read and inter-university contest announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/files\/2020\/10\/home1-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-15376 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/files\/2020\/10\/home1-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"734\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/files\/2020\/10\/home1-2.jpg 734w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/files\/2020\/10\/home1-2-300x79.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/files\/2020\/10\/home1-2-500x132.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 734px) 100vw, 734px\" \/><\/a>On Tuesday, September 29, 2020, Temple University Libraries celebrated the winners of our second-ever creative writing contest, which explored the theme of \u201cInterruption.\u201d The contest winners and select finalists joined us virtually from around the city, region, and even the world to read their winning pieces via Zoom.<\/p>\r\n<p>The event featured readings by:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><strong>Jessie Doble<\/strong>, juried runner up for the poem<a href=\"https:\/\/short-edition.com\/en\/story\/poetry\/to-my-father\"> To my father<\/a><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Misty Sol<\/strong>, juried runner up for the short story<a href=\"https:\/\/short-edition.com\/en\/story\/short-fiction\/coif\"> Coif<\/a><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Nha Nguyen<\/strong>, public winner for the poem<a href=\"https:\/\/short-edition.com\/en\/story\/poetry\/an-ode-to-your-last-breath\"> An ode to your last breath<\/a><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Will Dean<\/strong>, finalist for the short story<a href=\"https:\/\/short-edition.com\/en\/story\/short-fiction\/frosting\"> Frosting<\/a>\u00a0<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Richard Zhu<\/strong>, finalist for the poem<a href=\"https:\/\/short-edition.com\/en\/story\/poetry\/the-orphaned-girl\"> The Orphaned Girl<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Debra Powell-Wright<\/strong>, finalist for the poem<a href=\"https:\/\/short-edition.com\/en\/story\/poetry\/sixteen-sign-o-the-times-haiku-by-debra-powell-wright\"> Sixteen &#8220;Sign &#8216;O&#8217; the Times&#8221;<\/a> \u00a0<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>The contest\u2019s overall juried winner, <strong>Kristen Loughlin<\/strong>, was unable to join us for the live event, but you can view a video of her reading her winning short story,<a href=\"https:\/\/short-edition.com\/en\/story\/short-fiction\/bar-lines\"> Bar Lines<\/a>, on the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCrH3g0dyKiBQfnBJqpArItg\"> Libraries\u2019 YouTube page<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p>And in case you missed the reading, you can check it out at any time on<a href=\"https:\/\/library.temple.edu\/watchpastprograms\/show?id=c2dc0910-63fb-48d2-83b2-c102214a5241\"> our website<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\r\n<h1>A new writing contest opportunity for Temple students<\/h1>\r\n<p>As we wrap up our own contest, we are excited to announce Temple Libraries\u2019 participation in <a href=\"https:\/\/short-edition.com\/en\/\">Short \u00c9dition<\/a>\u2019s first-ever inter-university contest. (Short \u00c9dition is the French publishing house who we partner with for our contests and who makes the short story dispenser we have in Charles Library).<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/short-edition.com\/en\/contest\/longstoryshortaward-fall-2020\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-15377 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/files\/2020\/10\/unnamed-300x96.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"96\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/files\/2020\/10\/unnamed-300x96.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/files\/2020\/10\/unnamed-500x159.jpg 500w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/files\/2020\/10\/unnamed.jpg 565w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The<a href=\"https:\/\/short-edition.com\/en\/contest\/longstoryshortaward-fall-2020\"> Long Story Short Award<\/a> writing contest is open to all students at university partners (that\u2019s us!), and submissions will be accepted from October 5 to November 19.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>Submissions are limited to 7,500 <em>characters<\/em> (not words, so take note!). There are cash prizes, and select submissions will be published across 300 Short \u00c9dition short story dispensers worldwide.<\/p>\r\n<p>Learn more at the <a href=\"https:\/\/short-edition.com\/en\/contest\/longstoryshortaward-fall-2020\">contest website<\/a>, and good luck! We hope to see an Owl take the top prize!<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, September 29, 2020, Temple University Libraries celebrated the winners of our second-ever creative writing contest, which explored the theme of \u201cInterruption.\u201d The contest winners and select finalists joined us virtually from around the city, region, and even the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/2020\/10\/06\/a-welcome-interruption-winners-read-and-inter-university-contest-announcement\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8613,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-15373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library-news","tag-top-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}