{"id":2945,"date":"2016-10-15T16:04:34","date_gmt":"2016-10-15T11:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/?p=2945"},"modified":"2017-08-21T18:14:48","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T13:14:48","slug":"story-contest-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/2016\/10\/story-contest-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2016 DWL Short Story Contest: Winners Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The results of the 2016 DWL Short Story Contest were announced on October 10.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand-based Indian writer Rijula Das, Pakistani writer Anam Sufi and US writer John Maki won the three overall $100 prizes for the contest.\u00a0Find out more about the authors and their winning entries on <a href=\"http:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/contests\/short-story-contest-2016\/\" target=\"_blank\">our 2016 contest page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rijula Das was also awarded the <a href=\"http:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/dastaan-award\/#Dastaan16\" target=\"_blank\">PKR 50,000 annual Dastaan Award<\/a> for her outstanding story.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to the winners and a big thank you to all the participating writers for their wonderful entries! We hope to see you again in 2017 with details about the sixth edition of our annual contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DWL Short Story Contest 2016 winners have been announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":2884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[359,374],"tags":[55,727],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2946,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945\/revisions\/2946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}