{"id":4951,"date":"2014-02-02T16:47:47","date_gmt":"2014-02-02T16:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.victoriahislop.com\/?p=4951"},"modified":"2016-09-15T17:42:40","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T17:42:40","slug":"the-costa-book-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/the-costa-book-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"The Costa Book Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/www.victoriahislop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/costas.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-4973\" alt=\"costas\" src=\"\/\/www.victoriahislop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/costas.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"613\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/costas.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/costas-163x250.jpg 163w, https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/costas-326x500.jpg 326w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a> &#8220;The Costa Short Story Awards were announced on 28th January.\u00a0 Victoria was a judge for the short story award for the second year.\u00a0 This is a competition open to everyone, from established writers to those who have never been published. This year there were approximately 1500 entries and the shortlisted six were then voted on by the public to establish the final winner.<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: right;\">Winners<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4964\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4964\" style=\"width: 273px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4964 \" alt=\"Winners and judges for the short story competition\" src=\"\/\/www.victoriahislop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DSC_8029a.jpg\" width=\"273\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DSC_8029a.jpg 341w, https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DSC_8029a-250x246.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 273px) 100vw, 273px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4964\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Winners and judges for the short story competition<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>The winner<\/strong> of this year&#8217;s Costa Short Story award was: Angela Readman for <em>The Keeper of the Jackalopes<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Two runners-up were also announced:<br \/>\nKit de Waal for <em>The Old Man and the Suit<\/em><br \/>\nTony Bagley for <em>The Forgiveness Thing<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On the Costa book Awards website you can r<a href=\"http:\/\/www.costa.co.uk\/media\/117842\/CSSAWinner2013.pdf\">ead more about the winner and runners-up<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can also enjoy all of the six stories by downloading them here: <a href=\"https:\/\/s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/costa-book-awards\/2014-Costa-Short-Stories.zip\">DOWNLOAD AND LISTEN TO THIS YEAR&#8217;S STORIES (.ZIP)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Costa Short Story Awards were announced on 28th January.\u00a0 Victoria was a judge for the short story award for the second year.\u00a0 This is a competition open to everyone, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4962,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[189,60,446],"tags":[190,303,192,191],"class_list":["post-4951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards","category-event","category-news","tag-costa-book-awards","tag-en","tag-judge","tag-short-story","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}