{"id":13263,"date":"2014-06-20T14:00:53","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T18:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=13263"},"modified":"2014-06-20T14:00:53","modified_gmt":"2014-06-20T18:00:53","slug":"2014-frank-oconnor-international-short-story-award-finalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2014\/06\/20\/2014-frank-oconnor-international-short-story-award-finalists\/","title":{"rendered":"2014 Frank O&#8217;Connor International Short Story Award Finalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tiled-gallery type-rectangular tiled-gallery-unresized\" data-original-width=\"1200\" data-carousel-extra='{&quot;blog_id&quot;:1,&quot;permalink&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/mookseandgripes.com\\\/reviews\\\/2014\\\/06\\\/20\\\/2014-frank-oconnor-international-short-story-award-finalists\\\/&quot;,&quot;likes_blog_id&quot;:&quot;6298455&quot;}' itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\" > <div class=\"gallery-row\" style=\"width: 1200px; 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height: 900px;\" \/> <\/div> <\/div> <!-- close group --> <\/div> <!-- close row --> <\/div>\n<p>While I was on holiday, they announced the shortlist for this year&#8217;s Frank O&#8217;Connor International Short Story Award. Here is the list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>Young Skins<\/em><\/strong>, by Colin Barrett<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>All the Rage<\/strong><\/em>, by A.L. Kennedy<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Redeployment<\/strong><\/em>, by Phil Klay<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Leaving the S<\/strong><\/em>ea, by Ben Marcus<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Bark<\/strong><\/em>, by Lorrie Moore<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>The Isle of Youth<\/strong><\/em>, by Laura Van Den Berg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While I have read (and we&#8217;ve covered) some of the stories in Moore&#8217;s and Marcus&#8217;s collections, I have not read any of these. I&#8217;d love to hear your thoughts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The six finalists have been announced. We&#8217;d love to hear your thoughts! <a href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2014\/06\/20\/2014-frank-oconnor-international-short-story-award-finalists\"><u>Read the full post<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"libsyn-item-id":0,"libsyn-show-id":0,"libsyn-post-error":"","libsyn-post-error_post-type":"","libsyn-post-error_post-permissions":"","libsyn-post-error_api":"","playlist-podcast-url":"","libsyn-episode-thumbnail":"","libsyn-episode-widescreen_image":"","libsyn-episode-blog_image":"","libsyn-episode-background_image":"","libsyn-post-episode-category-selection":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_thumbnail":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_theme":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_height":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_width":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_placement":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_download_link":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_download_link_text":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_custom_color":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-explicit":"","libsyn-post-episode":"","libsyn-post-episode-update-id3":"","libsyn-post-episode-release-date":"","libsyn-post-episode-simple-download":"","libsyn-release-date":"","libsyn-post-update-release-date":"","libsyn-is_draft":"","libsyn-new-media-media":"","libsyn-post-episode-subtitle":"","libsyn-new-media-image":"","libsyn-post-episode-keywords":"","libsyn-post-itunes":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-number":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-season-number":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-type":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-title":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-author":"","libsyn-destination-releases":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data-enabled":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data-input-enabled":false,"libsyn-post-episode-premium_state":"","libsyn-episode-shortcode":"","libsyn-episode-embedurl":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[532],"tags":[560],"coauthors":[505],"class_list":["post-13263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-prize-news","tag-short-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqqvZ-3rV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Frank-OConnor.png?fit=151%2C200&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13263"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13273,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13263\/revisions\/13273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13263"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=13263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}