{"id":113,"date":"2010-02-06T08:17:30","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T08:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/?p=113"},"modified":"2010-02-06T08:17:30","modified_gmt":"2010-02-06T08:17:30","slug":"encouraging-alumnus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/?p=113","title":{"rendered":"Encouraging Alumnus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Later this term we&#8217;re having a visit from a &#8216;real-life&#8217; author but, as an encouraging testament, she is an alumnus of the Certificate in Novel Writing course itself. It is Kirstan Hawkins whose novel, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greeneheaton.co.uk\/pages\/authors\/title.asp?AuthorID=130&amp;TitleID=240\">Do\u00c3\u00b1a Nicanora\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Hat Shop<\/a>, is being published around now. There&#8217;s a <a title=\"Kirstan Hawkins\" href=\"http:\/\/www.greeneheaton.co.uk\/pages\/authors\/author.asp?AuthorID=130\" target=\"_blank\">short biography <\/a>on what seems to be her agent&#8217;s page and it&#8217;s quite re-assuring to see that she&#8217;s a veteran of various creative writing courses as well as having quite an extensive writing history related to her academic career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Later this term we&#8217;re having a visit from a &#8216;real-life&#8217; author but, as an encouraging testament, she is an alumnus of the Certificate in Novel Writing course itself. It is Kirstan Hawkins whose novel, Do\u00c3\u00b1a Nicanora\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Hat Shop, is being published around now. There&#8217;s a short biography on what seems to be her agent&#8217;s page &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/?p=113\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Encouraging Alumnus&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[94,93,92,91,1261],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publishing","tag-agents","tag-certificate-in-novel-writing-course","tag-dona-nicanoras-hat-shop","tag-kirstan-hawkins","tag-publishing"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114,"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}