{"id":41,"date":"2011-10-04T15:08:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T15:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/ct-society-of-genealogists-literary-awards-contest\/"},"modified":"2013-07-06T18:28:40","modified_gmt":"2013-07-06T23:28:40","slug":"ct-society-of-genealogists-literary-awards-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/ct-society-of-genealogists-literary-awards-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"CT Society of Genealogists Literary Awards Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/-tRMITzIZWiY\/UOZSDGjDqtI\/AAAAAAAAHS0\/e9eShtjzbC0\/s1600-h\/WritingCompetition%25255B4%25255D.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"WritingCompetition\" alt=\"WritingCompetition\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/-KXCP-LDGjkQ\/UOZSDot7icI\/AAAAAAAAHS8\/CpakSfil4vY\/WritingCompetition_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800\" width=\"125\" height=\"153\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csginc.org\/index.php\">Connecticut Society of Genealogists<\/a> literary contests are underway.\u00a0 There are two different contests.\u00a0 Entries for both contests are due by February 15, 2011.\u00a0 Winners for both contests will be notified by April 1, 2012.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tell Your Family Story Essay Contest<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This contest is open to anyone; winner receives $250.\u00a0 Entries must be related to New England and not more than 10 pages (double-spaced).\u00a0 Entries could include family stories, oral histories, diary\/journal excerpts, family histories or traditions, or socioeconomic conditions affecting the life on an ancestor.\u00a0 These essays must convey how it pertains to the author.\u00a0 Full contest rules and entry form for this contest are available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csginc.org\/Literary_Files\/csg_fledging_essay_2012.pdf\">http:\/\/www.csginc.org\/Literary_Files\/csg_fledging_essay_2012.pdf<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>25th Annual Literary Awards Contest<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This contest is open to anyone, the entry fee is $20.\u00a0 Entries must be related to New England and have been published in the past five years.\u00a0 Categories for this contest are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Genealogy<\/strong> (begins with someone in the past and works forward in time) \u2013 Awarded $1,000<\/li>\n<li><strong>Family History<\/strong> (begins with someone living today or recently and works backward in time) \u2013 Awarded $500<\/li>\n<li><strong>Genealogical Resource<\/strong> (could include cemetery abstracts, compilations, court records, etc.) \u2013 Awarded $500<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All entries should include a title page, table of contents, and index.\u00a0 Books should be bound.\u00a0 CDs are acceptable provided they have a fully searchable and easy-to-follow name index with page numbers.\u00a0 Full contest rules and entry form for this contest are available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csginc.org\/Literary_Files\/csg_contest_entry_2012.pdf\">http:\/\/www.csginc.org\/Literary_Files\/csg_contest_entry_2012.pdf<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Connecticut Society of Genealogists literary contests are underway.\u00a0 There are two different contests.\u00a0 Entries for both contests are due by February 15, 2011.\u00a0 Winners for both contests will be notified by April 1, 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-competitions","category-writing-your-way-to-the-past","cat-22-id","cat-17-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3HcLI-F","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3328,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/3328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}