{"id":1034,"date":"2016-05-10T10:58:12","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T22:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dramamagic.com\/?p=1034"},"modified":"2016-05-10T10:58:12","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T22:58:12","slug":"susan-battyes-short-story-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/?p=1034","title":{"rendered":"Susan Battye&#8217;s  Short Story Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Page-and-Blackmore.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1035\" title=\"Page and Blackmore\" src=\"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Page-and-Blackmore.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"164\" height=\"207\" \/><\/a>At an event held in Nelson on 8 May 2016 Drama Magic&#8217;s managing director and writer, Susan Battye \u00a0was awarded \u00a0third place in the Top of the South,\u00a0New Zealand Society of Authors short story\u00a0competition for her \u00a0story, <em>Mocked<\/em>. \u00a0The 2016 competition which was \u00a0sponsored by Nelson booksellers,Page and Blackmore attracted around 90 entries. The story will be included in anthology of short stories to be published by Page and Blackmore in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Judge, Tina Shaw commented: \u00a0\u2018The ten stories that I read showed skill and humanity, excellent use of storytelling techniques, and strong characterisation. They ran the gamut from teen relationships to the expectations of older generations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The best stories pushed the subject matter in some way, taking an idea in a new direction or trying out a different kind of structure; or did something fresh with language, giving voice to the main character. Several of the stories highlighted a disconnect between generations, and curiously it was often the older person who was depicted as being in the right. There seemed to be a lack of understanding between the generations that insinuated itself through many of these stories. All of the stories showed a fine understanding of human nature.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It\u2019s so important that writers have opportunities like this to submit their work, and Page &amp; Blackmore is to be congratulated on continuing to support this excellent initiative from the Top of the South branch.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At an event held in Nelson on 8 May 2016 Drama Magic&#8217;s managing director and writer, Susan Battye \u00a0was awarded \u00a0third place in the Top of the South,\u00a0New Zealand Society of Authors short story\u00a0competition for her \u00a0story, Mocked. \u00a0The 2016 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/?p=1034\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1036,"href":"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions\/1036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}