{"id":365,"date":"2008-06-16T13:36:17","date_gmt":"2008-06-16T17:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/sideshow\/?p=19"},"modified":"2022-11-09T15:10:11","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T20:10:11","slug":"space-western-senryu-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/sideshow\/space-western-senryu-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Space Western Senryu&nbsp;Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/\">SpaceWesterns.com<\/a> is holding another poetry contest. This time we\u2019re looking for your <em>Space Western Senry\u00c5\u00ab<\/em>! All submissions must be sent electronically via our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/contest\/\">contest form<\/a> by July 15th, 2008. The winners will be published on August 6th, 2008.<\/p>\n<p>This time the three celebrity judges are:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alana Joli Abbott<\/strong> is the author of two fantasy novels, <em>Into the Reach<\/em> and <em>Departure<\/em>, the writer for the web-comic <em>Cowboys and Aliens 2<\/em>, the co-writer for <em>Steampunk Musha<\/em> RPG, and contributor to several gaming resources, including <em>Serenity Adventures<\/em>. Ms. Abbott lives near New Haven, CT, where she often partakes of the city\u2019s famous thin crust pizza.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark L. Van Name<\/strong> is former Executive Vice President for Ziff-Davis Media, and the head of a technology assessment company in the Triangle. He\u2019s authored or co-authored over a thousand computer-related articles and one technical book, co-founded the Sycamore Hill Writer\u2019s Workshop, co-edited Intersections: The Sycamore Hill anthology, and has sold over a dozen SF short stories. His fiction has appeared in such places as <em>Isaac Asimov\u2019s Science Fiction Magazine<\/em>, <em>The Year\u2019s Best Science Fiction<\/em> (Ninth Edition), <em>Jim Baen\u2019s Universe<\/em>, and multiple anthologies. He is the author of the Jon &amp; Lobo series of novels: <em>One Jump Ahead<\/em> (2007), <em>Slanted Jack<\/em> (2008), and <em>Overthrowing Heaven<\/em> (due in June 2009).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Seamus Kevin Fahey<\/strong> was working as a Writer\u2019s Assisant on <em>Battlestar Galactica<\/em> for two years before being promoted to staff writer. Meanwhile he helped create a story arc for the <em>Battlestar Galactica: Origins<\/em> comic series based on the show, and also won the Slamdance teleplay competition for his script \u201cGhost Town\u201d. In 2007, after he was promoted to Staff Writer, he wrote his first script for the series\u2019 fourth season, which is also his first professional screen-writing credit.<\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/contest\/\">https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/contest\/<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceWesterns.com is holding another poetry contest. This time we\u2019re looking for your Space Western Senry\u00c5\u00ab! All submissions must be sent electronically via our contest form by July 15th, 2008. The winners will be published on August 6th, 2008. This time the three celebrity judges are: Alana Joli Abbott is the author of two fantasy novels, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[256,252],"tags":[],"media":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1472,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions\/1472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"media","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}