{"id":791,"date":"2014-03-27T10:44:25","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T10:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/?p=791"},"modified":"2014-03-27T10:57:05","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T10:57:05","slug":"romy-thomas-wins-flash-fiction-mini-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/?p=791","title":{"rendered":"Romy Thomas wins flash fiction mini-competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Romy Thomas&#8217;s short story &#8216;Wings&#8217;\u00a0is the joint winner of the recent Cinnamon Press mini-competition &#8211; based on the theme of &#8216;changes&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The competition judges described Romy&#8217;s story as follows: &#8216;Romyanna Thomas&#8217;s piece is a succinct and powerful narrative; from its shocking first sentence to the raw poignancy of the ending the whole piece sustains a single metaphor with superb control.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>You can read Romy&#8217;s story here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinnamonpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/wings-by-Romyanna-Thomas.pdf\">http:\/\/www.cinnamonpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/wings-by-Romyanna-Thomas.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinnamonpress.com\/\">http:\/\/www.cinnamonpress.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/romywood.co.uk\/\">http:\/\/romywood.co.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romy Thomas&#8217;s short story &#8216;Wings&#8217;\u00a0is the joint winner of the recent Cinnamon Press mini-competition &#8211; based on the theme of &#8216;changes&#8217;. The competition judges described Romy&#8217;s story as follows: &#8216;Romyanna Thomas&#8217;s piece is a succinct and powerful narrative; from its &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/?p=791\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[128],"class_list":["post-791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards-and-prizes","tag-flash-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=791"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":795,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions\/795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}