{"id":2055,"date":"2012-04-02T16:55:23","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T15:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/?p=2055"},"modified":"2020-04-22T02:44:55","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T01:44:55","slug":"james-white-judging-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/?p=2055","title":{"rendered":"JAMES WHITE JUDGING COMPLETE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am very pleased to be able to say that the judging process for this year\u2019s James White Award has now been completed and the winner chosen \u2013 to be announced at the BSFA Awards ceremony on Sunday 8 April.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime I can now announce the full shortlist with the names of the authors.<\/p>\n<p>The shortlisted authors for this year\u2019s James White Award are:<\/p>\n<p>Gaea Denker-Lehrman \u2013 \u201cSolvers\u201d<br \/>\nDarren Goossens \u2013 \u201cCircle<br \/>\nDavid McGroarty \u2013 \u201cA Traveller from an Antique Land\u201d<br \/>\nCJ Paget \u2013 \u201cInvocation of the Lurker\u201d<br \/>\nSarah Stanton \u2013 \u201cChrysanthemum\u201d<br \/>\nTori Truslow \u2013 \u201cTrain in Vain\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to the JWA judges \u2013 Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Juliet E McKenna and Andy Cox and Andy Hedgecock from <em>Interzone<\/em> and to all the authors who took part. Everyone always says in these things that picking the winner was very difficult, and no one really believes them, but this was a proper, close competition and the final decision really was difficult.<\/p>\n<p>If you go over to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jameswhiteaward.com\/archives\/215\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">James White website<\/a>, you can read the opening passages of all six stories and learn a bit more about the shortlisted authors.<\/p>\n<p>The winners will be announced over on the James White Award website on Sunday, or hear it first at the BSFA Awards&#8217; Ceremony if you&#8217;re at Eastercon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am very pleased to be able to say that the judging process for this year\u2019s James White Award has now been completed and the winner chosen \u2013 to be announced at the BSFA Awards ceremony on Sunday 8 April. In the meantime I can now announce the full shortlist with the names of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[20,67],"tags":[70],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p27AP7-x9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2055"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3049,"href":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055\/revisions\/3049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}