{"id":52456,"date":"2014-10-21T00:09:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T07:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=52456"},"modified":"2014-10-21T00:09:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T07:09:00","slug":"the-kirkus-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/52456","title":{"rendered":"The Kirkus Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tYou know I can\u2019t resist a good book, and with the shorter days upon us, I\u2019ve been on the lookout for an engaging story to snuggle into for some fall reading. On my quest for something brilliant and extraordinary, I stumbled upon 18 new writers whose work is being considered for the first-ever <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/\">Kirkus Prize<\/a>, one of the newest literary awards for fiction, non-fiction, and young adult writers that pays a whopping $50,000 to the winner in each category.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image aligncenter size-full wp-image-52457\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/kirkus-prize-170x170.jpg\" alt=\"kirkus-prize-170x170\" width=\"170\" height=\"170\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I have to admit, I was intrigued to see what a book of that caliber might look like. I discovered that the <em>Kirkus Reviews<\/em> magazine has been reading and reviewing submissions since 1933, and their magazine, website, and e-mail newsletter act together as a sort of marketing liaison between writers, industry professionals, and readers.<\/p>\n<p>To become shortlisted for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/\">Kirkus Prize<\/a>, authors had to have a starred review from one of the magazine\u2019s reviewers to be passed on to judges for further consideration. The judges have narrowed it down to the top six in each category, and the winners will be announced on October 23, preceding the start of the Texas Book Festival in Austin. In the spirit of the universal team of book lovers, I\u2019ll happily volunteer to explore the winner in the fiction category and report back.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-52488 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/gene-books.jpg\" alt=\"gene-books\" width=\"360\" height=\"504\" \/>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know I can\u2019t resist a good book, and with the shorter days upon us, I\u2019ve been on the lookout for an engaging story to snuggle into for some fall reading. On my quest for something brilliant and extraordinary, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/52456\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/52456\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-glitterati"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}