{"id":1710,"date":"2012-03-28T10:11:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T00:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1710"},"modified":"2023-08-30T10:12:09","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T00:12:09","slug":"woman-wins-republican-short-story-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1710","title":{"rendered":"Woman Wins Republican Short Story Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Writer Valda Marshall, born in Adelaide now living in Sydney, wins the third Republican Short Story Competition\u00a0for &#8220;The Child of the Holocaust&#8221; on the theme of Citizen or Subject.\u00a0 Valda describes herself as a longstanding,\u00a0staunch republican, &#8220;At the movies in the 50s, when they played God Save the Queen, even then I thought, why are we doing this?&#8221;.\u00a0 This is Valda&#8217;s second foray into writing about the republic.\u00a0 Her novel &#8220;The First President&#8221; about a woman running for and becoming\u00a0the Australian republic&#8217;s\u00a0first\u00a0head of state in 2016 was published\u00a0two years ago\u00a0(see our News Item of 18 December 2009).\u00a0 In contrast, the three\u00a0winners of the Inaugural Young Republicans National Essay Competition,\u00a0also run by ARM,\u00a0were all young men.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writer Valda Marshall, born in Adelaide now living in Sydney, wins the third Republican Short Story Competition\u00a0for &#8220;The Child of the Holocaust&#8221; on the theme of Citizen or Subject.\u00a0 Valda describes herself as a longstanding,\u00a0staunch republican, &#8220;At the movies in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-20","wpcat-20-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1711,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710\/revisions\/1711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}