{"id":1435,"date":"2026-08-30T06:07:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T06:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?p=1435"},"modified":"2026-10-01T05:40:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T05:40:59","slug":"ros-spencer-shortlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?p=1435","title":{"rendered":"Ros Spencer Poetry Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?attachment_id=1461\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1461\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1461\" src=\"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-10-01-at-15-25-28-Instagram-240x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-10-01-at-15-25-28-Instagram-240x300.png 240w, https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-10-01-at-15-25-28-Instagram-819x1024.png 819w, https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-10-01-at-15-25-28-Instagram-768x960.png 768w, https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-10-01-at-15-25-28-Instagram.png 958w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>My poem &#8220;Imago&#8221; won second prize in the 2026 Ros Spencer Poetry Prize. Of the poem, judge Jaya Penelope said &#8220;Subtle and generous, the poem offers something approaching consolation to those who are walking in liminal spaces of grief and loss.&#8221; The winner was Fiona Burrows for &#8220;Microchimeric&#8221; and all of Jaya&#8217;s beautiful comments can be read at the link below.<\/p>\n<p>The two winners, highly commended and commended poems will all be included in the anthology\u00a0<em>Brushstrokes<\/em> which is due for release in August and all winning poems can be read on the website: <a href=\"https:\/\/wapoets.com\/ros-spencer-prize-winners\/\">https:\/\/wapoets.com\/ros-spencer-prize-winners\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My poem &#8220;Imago&#8221; won second prize in the 2026 Ros Spencer Poetry Prize. Of the poem, judge Jaya Penelope said &#8220;Subtle and generous, the poem offers something approaching consolation to those who are walking in liminal spaces of grief and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?p=1435\">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-1435","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\/1435","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=1435"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1464,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions\/1464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}