{"id":2547,"date":"2021-04-27T13:14:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T19:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/?p=2547"},"modified":"2021-06-18T11:00:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T17:00:12","slug":"alumnus-receives-2021-cuirt-new-writing-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/blog\/2021\/04\/27\/alumnus-receives-2021-cuirt-new-writing-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumnus Receives 2021 C\u00fairt New Writing Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>David Morgan O&#8217;Conner, MFA Graduate in Fiction was announced as the winner of the 2021 C\u00fa\u00edrt New Writing Prize in the short story category for his story, &#8220;Antoine Solomon Takes a Job.&#8221;\u00a0Sponsored by Tigh Neachtain and in memory of Lena McGuire, the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cuirt.ie\/winners-of-the-2021-cuirt-new-writing-prize\/\" target=\"_blank\">C\u00fa\u00edrt New Writing Prize<\/a> is a poetry and short story competition which encourages entries from writers all over the world. The judges for 2021 were Colin Barrett, winner of Penguin Ireland Prize, who judged the short stories category and Poet Stephen Sexton who judged the poetry category.\u00a0Judge Colin Barrett praised O&#8217;Connor&#8217;s story\u2019s \u2018formally inventive, effervescent and mischievous\u2019 take on race and cultural dislocation.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Morgan O&#8217;Conner, MFA Graduate in Fiction was announced as the winner of the 2021 C\u00fa\u00edrt New Writing Prize in the short story category for his story, &#8220;Antoine Solomon Takes a Job.&#8221;\u00a0Sponsored by Tigh Neachtain and in memory of Lena McGuire, the C\u00fa\u00edrt New Writing Prize is a poetry and short story competition which encourages [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2549,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2547"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2635,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2547\/revisions\/2635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}