{"id":1931,"date":"2013-05-17T21:40:04","date_gmt":"2013-05-18T01:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calla2.com\/?p=1931"},"modified":"2020-05-23T22:02:44","modified_gmt":"2020-05-23T22:02:44","slug":"winning-the-silver-birch-fiction-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/winning-the-silver-birch-fiction-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Winning the Silver Birch Fiction Award!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What a lovely surprise it was to WIN the Silver Birch Fiction Award this year! The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessola.org\/OLAWEB\/Forest_of_Reading\/Awards_Nominees\/Silver_Birch_Fiction_Nominees.aspx\">SB roster of authors<\/a> was company I was honoured to be included in, and quite frankly, it never occurred to me that I might win. Just to be nominated was a dream come true. My signing session was scheduled before the announcements. On the students&#8217; autograph sheets was a spot set aside for the &#8220;winner&#8221;. One young lady insisted that I sign there. I told her that we didn&#8217;t know who had won yet. She gave me a pitying stare and said, Puleeze, you&#8217;ve won it. Sign it on the winner&#8217;s spot. I did, with trepidation.<\/p>\n<p>The pic, from <a href=\"http:\/\/canlitforlittlecanadians.blogspot.ca\/\">Helen Kubiw<\/a>\u00a0 shows me in a complete state of shock, thanking the audience.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/win.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6967\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/win.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/win.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/win-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/win-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 85vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a lovely surprise it was to WIN the Silver Birch Fiction Award this year! The SB roster of authors was company I was honoured to be included in, and quite frankly, it never occurred to me that I might win. Just to be nominated was a dream come true. My signing session was scheduled &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/winning-the-silver-birch-fiction-award\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Winning the Silver Birch Fiction Award!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[262],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6968,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions\/6968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}