{"id":35,"date":"2007-06-12T05:25:53","date_gmt":"2007-06-12T12:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/specfic.philsites.net\/2007\/06\/12\/philippine-genre-stories-calls-for-christmas-themed-fiction\/"},"modified":"2007-06-12T05:33:51","modified_gmt":"2007-06-12T12:33:51","slug":"philippine-genre-stories-calls-for-christmas-themed-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philsites.net\/specfic\/2007\/06\/12\/philippine-genre-stories-calls-for-christmas-themed-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippine Genre Stories Calls for Christmas-Themed Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m afraid I&#8217;m running a bit late on updating the blogroll, but I hope next weekend will leave me more time for that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a few days late spreading the word about this too &#8211; an event like this is best announced as early as possible!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/philippinegenrestories.blogspot.com\/\">Philippine Genre Stories<\/a> is planning a Christmas theme for its December 2007 issue, and is looking for contributors. Excerpted from their <a href=\"http:\/\/philippinegenrestories.blogspot.com\/2007\/06\/still-open.html\">official announcement<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Send us a Christmas-themed genre story for the 2007 Yuletide season. Consider it a challenge to write a horror, crime, suspense, humor, fantasy, alternate-history, sci-fi, speculative, ghost, romance, or mystery tale around the Yuletide season. Just to put some additional seed to thought: how would you weave the usual traditions we see, hear, and experience around Christmas into a genre story? You can use the holiday setting and place a crime in a department store at the height of Christmas rush for a detective story, for example, or you can even turn this on its head and place the crime in Santa&#8217;s workshop (&#8220;Ho Ho&#8230;Hey! Who stole all the toys?&#8221;) where the Detective who has to solve it is some diminutive, smart-aleck elf, or perhaps some sentient P.I. doll. Or how about: what would zombies eat for noche buena?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Time to start thinking Christmas, and start working on your submission\/s for this special issue!<\/p>\n<p>PS: Added a favicon: the Philippine flag, in honor of Philippine Independence Day. My <a href=\"http:\/\/tbr.philsites.net\">younger sister<\/a>, the artist, said the scrolling text is tacky. But I&#8217;m kind of getting used to it, so unless I find a compelling number of objections, I&#8217;m keeping it :P<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230; does the favicon scrolling text disturb you? Does it make your day? Is it just &#8220;okay&#8221;? Speak your mind!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m afraid I&#8217;m running a bit late on updating the blogroll, but I hope next weekend will leave me more time for that&#8230; I&#8217;m a few days late spreading the word about this too &#8211; an event like this is best announced as early as possible! Philippine Genre Stories is planning a Christmas theme for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-container-style":"default","site-container-layout":"default","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-transparent-header":"default","disable-article-header":"default","disable-site-header":"default","disable-site-footer":"default","disable-content-area-spacing":"default","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-special-announcements","category-writing-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philsites.net\/specfic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philsites.net\/specfic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philsites.net\/specfic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philsites.net\/specfic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philsites.net\/specfic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philsites.net\/specfic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philsites.net\/specfic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philsites.net\/specfic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philsites.net\/specfic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}