{"id":41891,"date":"2015-10-09T06:00:39","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T13:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=41891"},"modified":"2015-10-08T13:49:25","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T20:49:25","slug":"trek-writing-contest-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2015\/10\/trek-writing-contest-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"Trek Writing Contest Returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attention <em>Star Trek<\/em> writer wannabes, the <em>Star Trek Strange New Worlds<\/em> writing contest is back!<\/p>\n<p><em>Pocket Books<\/em> is bringing back the contest in celebration of<em> Star Trek<\/em>&#8216;s fiftieth Anniversary next year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Star Trek: Strange New Worlds<\/em> was an annual collection of short stories that ran from 1998 to 2007 set in the<em> Star Trek<\/em> universe, written by amateur writers chosen through an open submissions process. Now, under license from <em>CBS Consumer Products, Pocket Books<\/em> is reviving the contest in 2016. Ten grand prize winners will have their stories published as part of an all-new official anthology in print and eBook formats. Additionally, two first prize winners will receive a free self-publishing package from <em>Archway Publishing<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Star Trek<\/em> fans were some of the original pioneers of fan fiction, and <em>Strange New Worlds<\/em> introduced powerful voices to the community \u2014 several of whom went on to become bestselling authors,&#8221; said <strong>Louise Burke<\/strong>, President of the<em> Gallery Books Group <\/em>and<em> Publisher of Pocket Book<\/em>. &#8220;We are excited to be able to give fans a fresh platform on which to express themselves.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The deadline for submissions will be January 15, 2016, and winners will be announced on March 31, 2016. Stories will be selected by a panel to be named shortly. The 2016 <em>Star Trek: Strange New Worlds<\/em> will be a fully fan-created package, and soon fans will be asked to submit their artwork for cover consideration. For further details, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.StarTrekBooks.com\">StarTrekBooks<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The contest is only open to US residents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attention Star Trek writer wannabes, the Star Trek Strange New Worlds writing contest is back!&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2416],"tags":[2530,8641,8642],"class_list":["post-41891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fandom","tag-contest","tag-strange-new-worlds","tag-writing"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/SNW2015-100915.gif",580,225,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/SNW2015-100915-150x150.gif",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/SNW2015-100915.gif",580,225,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/SNW2015-100915.gif",580,225,false],"large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/SNW2015-100915.gif",580,225,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/SNW2015-100915.gif",580,225,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/SNW2015-100915.gif",580,225,false],"newsphere-slider-full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/SNW2015-100915.gif",580,225,false],"newsphere-featured":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/SNW2015-100915.gif",580,225,false],"newsphere-medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/SNW2015-100915.gif",580,225,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/fandom\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Fandom<\/a>","tag_info":"Fandom","comment_count":"6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41891"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41895,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41891\/revisions\/41895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}