{"id":113,"date":"2013-04-07T22:07:19","date_gmt":"2013-04-07T22:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gooseberryseason.com\/wp\/?p=113"},"modified":"2016-04-17T16:11:58","modified_gmt":"2016-04-17T16:11:58","slug":"broadcast-on-arena-on-rte-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gooseberryseason.com\/wp\/?p=113","title":{"rendered":"Broadcast on Arena on RTE Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Arena program on RTE radio is running a series of pieces as a kind of &#8220;Creative Writing Class&#8221; and each month the public is invited to submit short fiction on a particular theme. I submitted a piece for the February program but heard nothing back so assumed I was out of the race. I was somewhat surprised when I went to listen to the program to find I was one of two stories read out by Dave Lordan. Even better some of the descriptions: &#8220;an absolutely brilliant piece of writing, it\u2019s one of the best pieces I\u2019ve got in.\u00a0When I read it first I liked it, when I read it a second time I loved it, it really blew everybody away who read it including the actors.&#8221; &#8220;This story illustrates the reason we have fiction.&#8221; Very happy indeed. The program is online here<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rte.ie\/radio\/radioplayer\/rteradiowebpage.html#type=radio&amp;rii=9%3A20182045%3A1526%3A02%2D04%2D2013%3A\">http:\/\/www.rte.ie\/radio\/radioplayer\/rteradiowebpage.html#type=radio&amp;rii=9%3A20182045%3A1526%3A02%2D04%2D2013%3A<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My story starts about 10:23 into the excerpt.<\/p>\n<p>Other good news, though perhaps a little pale in the light of the above, I have a fifth story, &#8220;IED&#8221; shortlisted by Writers Forum magazine, plus I got an Honourable Mention in the &#8220;String-of-10&#8221; flash fiction competition on EveryDayFiction.com.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everydayfiction.com\/flashfictionblog\/string-of-10-five-winner-announced-and-an-interview-with-guest-judge-kathy-fish\/\">http:\/\/www.everydayfiction.com\/flashfictionblog\/string-of-10-five-winner-announced-and-an-interview-with-guest-judge-kathy-fish\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Arena program on RTE radio is running a series of pieces as a kind of &#8220;Creative Writing Class&#8221; and each month the public is invited to submit short fiction on a particular theme. I submitted a piece for the February program but heard nothing back so assumed I was out of the race. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gooseberryseason.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gooseberryseason.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gooseberryseason.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gooseberryseason.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gooseberryseason.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/gooseberryseason.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205,"href":"http:\/\/gooseberryseason.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gooseberryseason.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gooseberryseason.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gooseberryseason.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gooseberryseason.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}