{"id":825,"date":"2008-12-13T19:23:45","date_gmt":"2008-12-14T00:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/?p=825"},"modified":"2008-12-13T19:23:45","modified_gmt":"2008-12-14T00:23:45","slug":"2008-ghost-story-contest-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2008\/12\/13\/2008-ghost-story-contest-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"2008 Ghost Story contest winners!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The winner and an honorable mention for this year&#8217;s ghost story contest have been selected!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the report from the judge, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandraworth.com\/\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sandra Worth<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So nice to see so much talent! The stories were an amazingly good crop of entries and it was difficult to choose from amongst them, especially for Honorable Mention. I feel they were so good, they all deserved that. The winner of the contest wrote a story that was gripping the first time I read it, and also when I re-read it and knew what to expect. The winner also displayed a flawless grasp of fundamentals such as dialogue, structure, word choices, characters, point of view, all of which were expertly handled in a complex and tense story of time travel.<\/p>\n<p>The winner is <a href=\"http:\/\/thehistorybookshop.org\/2009_tudor_ghost_story_winner.htm\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Innocent Ghost<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have also chosen <a href=\"http:\/\/thehistorybookshop.org\/Tudor%20Ghost%20Story%20Honorable%20Mention.htm\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Why, This is Hell<\/a> for Honorable Mention.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read the stories at the links above on <a href=\"http:\/\/thehistorybookshop.org\/\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wendy&#8217;s site<\/a> or here on this site:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tudorhistory.org\/storycontest\/2008winner.html\">Innocent Ghost<\/a> by Madeline Martin<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tudorhistory.org\/storycontest\/2008runnerup.html\">Why, This is Hell<\/a> by Kathy Marcella<\/p>\n<p>Congrats to the winners and thanks to Wendy for organizing the contest and to Sandra for judging!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The winner and an honorable mention for this year&#8217;s ghost story contest have been selected! Here&#8217;s the report from the judge, Sandra Worth: So nice to see so much talent! The stories were an amazingly good crop of entries and it was difficult to choose from amongst them, especially for&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2008\/12\/13\/2008-ghost-story-contest-winners\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-site-updates-and-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}