{"id":1642,"date":"2018-02-03T14:19:46","date_gmt":"2018-02-03T14:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/?p=1642"},"modified":"2018-02-03T14:33:03","modified_gmt":"2018-02-03T14:33:03","slug":"the-2018-wilbur-smith-adventure-writing-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2018\/02\/03\/the-2018-wilbur-smith-adventure-writing-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2018 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/files\/2018\/02\/WNSmithFoundation-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1644\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/files\/2018\/02\/WNSmithFoundation-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"728\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/files\/2018\/02\/WNSmithFoundation-1.jpg 728w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/files\/2018\/02\/WNSmithFoundation-1-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" \/><\/a>The Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize is an annual award for adventure writing. This award is split into two separate categories \u2013 a prize for the best published adventure novel and a prize for the best unpublished adventure manuscript submitted for consideration.<\/p>\n<p>The winner of the prize for a published novel will receive \u00a315,000. The winner of the prize for an unpublished manuscript will be offered the Writer\u2019s Adventure Research Award. The award is an exceptional opportunity in the form of a \u00a37,500 grant, enabling the winner to travel to undertake invaluable research for their next story. They will also be offered a mentoring relationship with Wilbur Smith&#8217;s literary agents at Tibor Jones &amp; Associates.<\/p>\n<p>More information about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wilbur-niso-smithfoundation.org\/index.php?p=page\/criteria-for-adventure-writing-prize\">Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Image: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wilbur-niso-smithfoundation.org\/\">The Wilbur and Niso Smith Founcation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize is an annual award for adventure writing. This award is split into two separate categories \u2013 a prize for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2018\/02\/03\/the-2018-wilbur-smith-adventure-writing-prize\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53063,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[62037,178181],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53063"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1642"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1646,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions\/1646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}