{"id":52616,"date":"2022-02-12T03:46:34","date_gmt":"2022-02-12T03:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jurn.org\/tentaclii\/?p=52616"},"modified":"2022-02-12T03:46:34","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T03:46:34","slug":"wilbur-smith-adventure-writing-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2022\/02\/12\/wilbur-smith-adventure-writing-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wilbur-niso-smithfoundation.org\/about\">Wilbur and Niso Smith Foundation<\/a> has inaugurated a new &#8216;Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize&#8217; 2022, for the &#8220;Author of Tomorrow&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The competition is open to young people across the world who have completed a short piece of adventure writing in English.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Free to enter. Deadline: 22nd April 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Wilbur Smith (1933-2021) was for many decades the author of bestselling adventure novels, which gave rise to seven movies. More recently he published a series of novels set in Ancient Egypt (1993-2021), one of which became a 1999 TV mini-series. But his later books show a decline and the best starting point to his work is often said to be the much earlier 17th century maritime trilogy, <em>Birds of Prey<\/em>, <em>Monsoon<\/em>, and then <em>Blue Horizon<\/em>. These prequels then lead naturally into one of his best series, the &#8216;Courtney&#8217; series set in Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wilbur and Niso Smith Foundation has inaugurated a new &#8216;Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize&#8217; 2022, for the &#8220;Author of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2022\/02\/12\/wilbur-smith-adventure-writing-prize\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-odd-scratchings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}