{"id":288,"date":"2010-08-04T09:39:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T09:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/2010\/08\/04\/genomics_poetry_competition\/"},"modified":"2011-03-02T20:12:53","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T20:12:53","slug":"genomics_poetry_competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/2010\/08\/04\/genomics_poetry_competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Genomics poetry competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was delighted to see a new poetry competition announced. I must confess that I am not a big poetry afficionado, but I think on balance it is a good thing and deserves to be encouraged.<br \/>\nThe Scottish Poetry Library have teamed up with the ESRC&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.genomicsforum.ac.uk\/\">Genomic Forum<\/a> to establish a genomics poetry competition. The Scottish Poetry Library&#8217;s blog gives brief details:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Write a poem of no more than 50 lines on the theme of &#8216;improving the human&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li>First prize is \u00a3500, 2nd is \u00a3200 and 3rd is \u00a3100.<\/li>\n<li>Entry is free!<\/li>\n<li>The deadline for entries is 7 October 2010 (National Poetry Day)<\/li>\n<li>The judges are Gwyneth Lewis (Wales&#8217;s National Poet 2005-06), Peggy Hughes at the Scottish Poetry Library, and Professor Steve Yearley, (director of the Genomics Forum).<\/li>\n<li>Poems should not have been published or accepted for publication elsewhere.<\/li>\n<li>Entrants can be of any nationality. Entrants can only submit one poem.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Send your poems to pippa.goldschmidt@edinburgh.ac.uk<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.genomicsnetwork.ac.uk\/esrcgenomicsnetwork\/news\/latestnews\/title,23732,en.html\">Full information and rules<\/a> are on the Genomics Forum website.<br \/>\nI wonder how many poems they will receive that look like they were composed on <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/strippedscience\/2010\/05\/19\/keyboard-for-genetics-comic\">Viktor Poor&#8217;s genetics keyboard<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was delighted to see a new poetry competition announced. I must confess that I am not a big poetry afficionado, but I think on balance it is a good thing and deserves to be encouraged. The Scottish Poetry Library &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/2010\/08\/04\/genomics_poetry_competition\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}