{"id":5468,"date":"2015-11-14T14:28:52","date_gmt":"2015-11-14T20:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/?p=5468"},"modified":"2015-11-14T14:28:52","modified_gmt":"2015-11-14T20:28:52","slug":"scgs-geneii-writing-contest-underway-for-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/scgs-geneii-writing-contest-underway-for-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"SCGS GENEii Writing Contest Underway for 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0px 0px 0px 5px; display: inline\" src=\"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/images\/WritingCompetition.jpg\" align=\"right\">It\u2019s that time again!&nbsp; The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scgsgenealogy.com\/geneii\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Southern California Genealogical Society\u2019s Annual GENEii Writing Contest<\/a> is now underway.&nbsp; Entries will be accepted from now until December 31, 2015.&nbsp; You do not have to be a member of SCGS to enter, nor does your submission have to relate to California.&nbsp; Entries must be family or local history articles, memoirs, or character sketches, which may or may not have been previously published.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The length of the article will determine the category it fits in: <\/p>\n<p><strong>Category 1<\/strong><br \/>1,000-2,000 words<br \/><em>Prizes<\/em><br \/>First Place \u2013 $200<br \/>Second Place \u2013 $100<br \/>Third Place \u2013 $50 <\/p>\n<p><strong>Category 2<\/strong><br \/>Less than 1,000 words<br \/><em>Prizes<\/em><br \/>First Place \u2013 $100<br \/>Second Place \u2013 $50<br \/>Third Place \u2013 $25 <\/p>\n<p>Winners will be notified by May 1, 2016.&nbsp; Winning entries may be published on the SCGS website, in their journal, or in an anthology of winners.  <\/p>\n<p>For complete rules and how to enter, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scgsgenealogy.com\/geneii\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.scgsgenealogy.com\/geneii\/index.html<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>Good luck!! <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><em>Need some convincing to write about your genealogy research?&nbsp; See my post <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/4-reasons-to-convert-your-genealogy-research-into-writing\/\" target=\"_blank\">4 Reasons to Convert Your Genealogy Research Into Writing<\/a><em><\/em><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s that time again!&nbsp; The Southern California Genealogical Society\u2019s Annual GENEii Writing Contest is now underway.&nbsp; Entries will be accepted from now until December 31, 2015.&nbsp; You do not have to be a member of SCGS to enter, nor does your submission have to relate [&hellip;]<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25,22,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genblog","category-writing-competitions","category-writing-your-way-to-the-past","cat-25-id","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-1qc","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5468","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=5468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5469,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5468\/revisions\/5469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}