{"id":938,"date":"2022-12-22T01:44:34","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T01:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?p=938"},"modified":"2025-08-08T22:42:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T22:42:23","slug":"qld-ekphrasis-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?p=938","title":{"rendered":"QLD Ekphrasis Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/605d85f92ea1c36bf259971f\/1671603839234-WE5ULAN089DEZ55FCZN4\/image-asset.jpeg?format=750w\" width=\"246\" height=\"246\" \/>I&#8217;m stunned and delighted to report that my poem &#8220;Soil Horizon (O)&#8221; has been chosen as one of the winners of this year&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"caret-color: #444444; font-size: 16px;\" src=\"https:\/\/flyingarts.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/HELEN-DENNIS_Resilience_resized.jpg\" width=\"224\" height=\"278\" \/>Queensland Regional Art Awards (QRAA) Ekphrasis Challenge by\u00a0judge Marjon Mossammaparast. The poem was a response to Helen Deniss&#8217; beautiful award-winning artwork &#8220;Resilience&#8221;. All of the winners can be read and viewed at the Qld Poetry website: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qldpoetry.org\/qraa-ekphrasis-challenge-copy\">https:\/\/www.qldpoetry.org\/qraa-ekphrasis-challenge-copy<\/a> and my own piece can be read in full here: <a href=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/605d85f92ea1c36bf259971f\/t\/63951f56fdd1fe1c9049a8f7\/1670717270782\/Soil+Horizon+%28O%29_Magdelena+Ball.pdf\">https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/605d85f92ea1c36bf259971f\/t\/63951f56fdd1fe1c9049a8f7\/1670717270782\/Soil+Horizon+%28O%29_Magdelena+Ball.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m stunned and delighted to report that my poem &#8220;Soil Horizon (O)&#8221; has been chosen as one of the winners of this year&#8217;s Queensland Regional Art Awards (QRAA) Ekphrasis Challenge by\u00a0judge Marjon Mossammaparast. The poem was a response to Helen &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?p=938\">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":[12],"tags":[75,14,32],"class_list":["post-938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ekphrasis","tag-poetry","tag-prizes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938","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=938"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":940,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions\/940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}