I’m thinking of launching a new literary prize.<\/p>\n
It would be called The Green Literary Prize.<\/p>\n
The prize would be open to people* of all ages and cultures, regardless of the language choices of the candidates.<\/p>\n
The intention would be that The Green Literary Prize would celebrate the best of the art of writing.<\/p>\n
It would be a unique opportunity for candidates to express their skill, flair and even critical views.<\/p>\n
The aim of the prize would be to encourage the high art of producing innovative, educational literary work.<\/p>\n
(* = candidates must be male. Applications from female writers will not, under any circumstances, be permitted)<\/strong><\/p>\n [long long pause]<\/p>\n Obviously this is a wind up.<\/p>\n Because it would be wrong.<\/p>\n And yet the Orange prize for literary fiction is only open to women.<\/p>\n So, just as my spoof prize would be wrong – isn’t the Orange prize for literary fiction being only open to women wrong?<\/p>\n I mean, it’s not as if there’s some difference of physical strength or some kind of gender-related ability that needs to be protected in writing, is there?<\/p>\n Am I missing the point?<\/p>\n Do you feel that women writers are under represented?<\/p>\n And if you do, have you actually had a tour through WH Smith lately, and seen the proportion of titles authored by women?<\/p>\n B<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m thinking of launching a new literary prize. It would be called The Green Literary Prize. The prize would be open to people* of all<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}