{"id":5597,"date":"2017-01-09T12:48:33","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T18:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/?p=5597"},"modified":"2018-01-05T22:52:28","modified_gmt":"2018-01-06T04:52:28","slug":"western-michigan-genealogical-society-2017-writing-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/western-michigan-genealogical-society-2017-writing-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Michigan Genealogical Society 2017 Writing Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; display: inline\" src=\"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/images\/WritingCompetition.jpg\" align=\"right\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wmgs.org\/pdf\/2017-WMGSWritingContest-FINAL.pdf\">Western Michigan Genealogical Society 2017 Writing Contest<\/a> kicked off on January 1, 2017 and will run through <strong>March 30, 2017<\/strong>.&nbsp; You do not have to be a WMGS member to enter and there is no entry fee.&nbsp; Entries must be 1,500 to 3,000 and center around the theme \u201cA Sense of Place,\u201d particularly the Great Lakes Region.  <\/p>\n<p>Winning entries will be published in <em>Michigana<\/em>.&nbsp; Winning authors will be awarded a monetary prize as follows:  <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1st place \u2013 $100 and an annual WMGS membership\n<li>2nd place \u2013 $75 and an annual WMGS membership\n<li>3rd place \u2013 $50\n<li>4th place \u2013 $25 <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Winners will be announce in May.  <\/p>\n<p>Full details on the contest can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wmgs.org\/pdf\/2017-WMGSWritingContest-FINAL.pdf\">here<\/a> (opens a PDF).  <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><em>Need some convincing to write about your genealogy research?&nbsp; See my post <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/julietarr.blogspot.com\/2011\/11\/putting-pen-to-paper-or-fingers-to.html\">4 Reasons to Convert Your Genealogy Research Into Writing<\/a><em><\/em><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Western Michigan Genealogical Society 2017 Writing Contest kicked off on January 1, 2017 and will run through March 30, 2017.&nbsp; You do not have to be a WMGS member to enter and there is no entry fee.&nbsp; Entries must be 1,500 to 3,000 and [&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-5597","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-1sh","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5597","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=5597"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5713,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5597\/revisions\/5713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}