{"id":9801,"date":"2017-09-14T15:06:19","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T19:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/?p=9801"},"modified":"2017-09-14T15:10:41","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T19:10:41","slug":"2017-writing-divercity-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/2017-writing-divercity-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 Writing DiverCity Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With only 10 days left until our 28th festival, we are thrilled to announce the winners of our inaugural Writing DiverCity Contest, a competition for writers under 35 aimed at highlighting the diversity and vibrancy of emerging Canadian talent, awarding a total of $2,500.<\/p>\n<p>Winning Stories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>First Place<\/strong>: &#8220;The Night is Powerful&#8221; by Elham M. Ali<\/li>\n<li><strong>Second Place<\/strong>: &#8220;Miim&#8221; by Amanda Ghazale Aziz<\/li>\n<li><strong>Third Place<\/strong>: &#8220;Fences&#8221; by Aaron Kreuter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Congratulations to all the winners! Judges Phoebe Wang, Elyse Friedman, and Ian Williams chose the winning stories over the summer from a large selection of submissions and were amazed at the talent coming forward.<\/p>\n<p>In the lead up to the festival we will be publishing all of the winning stories on our blog, starting tomorrow with Aaron Kreuter&#8217;s third place winning story, &#8220;Fences.&#8221; With each story, we&#8217;ll be including a short interview with the author to really get a behind the scenes look.<\/p>\n<p>Also, be sure to see the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/events\/writing-divercity-competition-announcement\/\">special showcase of the contest<\/a><\/strong> with all three authors reading portions of their winning stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With only 10 days left until our 28th festival, we are thrilled to announce the winners of our inaugural Writing DiverCity Contest, a competition for writers under 35 aimed at highlighting the diversity and vibrancy of emerging Canadian talent, awarding a total of $2,500. Winning Stories: First Place: &#8220;The Night is Powerful&#8221; by Elham M. <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/2017-writing-divercity-winners\/\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":9802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9801"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9801"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9806,"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9801\/revisions\/9806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}