{"id":1528,"date":"2018-08-31T13:52:24","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T02:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/?p=1528"},"modified":"2018-08-31T13:52:24","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T02:52:24","slug":"uk-awards-organisation-builds-digital-hub-for-emerging-writers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/articles\/2018\/08\/31\/1528\/uk-awards-organisation-builds-digital-hub-for-emerging-writers\/","title":{"rendered":"UK awards organisation builds digital hub for emerging writers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the UK, the Young Writer of the Year Award (YWYA) has launched a free online hub for emerging and aspiring writers, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebookseller.com\/news\/young-writer-year-award-extends-digital-offer-aspiring-authors-843561\">reports the <em>Bookseller<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>YWYA is\u00a0hosting free content on its website\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youngwriteraward.com\">youngwriteraward.com<\/a>\u00a0to help writers at the beginning of their careers. The website features monthly \u2018how-to\u2019 guides, articles by well-known UK authors such as\u00a0Paul Beatty,\u00a0Anne Enright,\u00a0Ian Rankin\u00a0and\u00a0Nick Hornby, \u2018top tips\u2019 posts<em>\u00a0<\/em>by experts including journalists from\u00a0<em>The Sunday Times<\/em>, and guest posts from\u00a0publishers, writers and literary experts from the British Council.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by literary agency\u00a0Peters Fraser and Dunlop, YWYA rewards the best work of fiction, nonfiction or poetry by a British or Irish author aged between 18 and 35 years. The 2018 winner will be announced at the London Library on\u00a06 December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the UK, the Young Writer of the Year Award (YWYA) has launched a free online hub for emerging and aspiring writers, reports the Bookseller. YWYA is\u00a0hosting free content on its website\u00a0youngwriteraward.com\u00a0to help writers at the beginning of their careers. The website features monthly \u2018how-to\u2019 guides, articles by well-known UK authors such as\u00a0Paul Beatty,\u00a0Anne Enright,\u00a0Ian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1528","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-international-news"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}