{"id":1314,"date":"2025-08-18T10:57:54","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T10:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?p=1314"},"modified":"2025-08-18T10:57:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T10:57:54","slug":"ros-spencer-poetry-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?p=1314","title":{"rendered":"Ros Spencer  Poetry Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?attachment_id=1315\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1315\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1315 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/534782100_18402883267113721_5961873789425880500_n-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/534782100_18402883267113721_5961873789425880500_n-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/534782100_18402883267113721_5961873789425880500_n-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/534782100_18402883267113721_5961873789425880500_n-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/534782100_18402883267113721_5961873789425880500_n.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a> Keeping the Western Australia theme going, I&#8217;m so pleased to have been longlisted by judge Kevin Gillam for this year&#8217;s Ros Spencer Poetry Prize with a bunch of other terrific poets. All longlisted poems will be included in the Brushstrokes Anthology being publisher later this year. The shortlist will be revealed soon and the winners announced at WA Poets Presents on Thursday August 28th from 6-8pm at The City of Perth Library, as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/perthpoetryfestival.com\">2025 Perth Poetry Festival<\/a>, which, of course, I&#8217;m delighted to be taking part in as an interstate guest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keeping the Western Australia theme going, I&#8217;m so pleased to have been longlisted by judge Kevin Gillam for this year&#8217;s Ros Spencer Poetry Prize with a bunch of other terrific poets. All longlisted poems will be included in the Brushstrokes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?p=1314\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[49,12,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-news","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1316,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314\/revisions\/1316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}