{"id":70,"date":"2015-01-12T17:25:54","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T17:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melvinburgess.net\/news\/?p=70"},"modified":"2015-01-12T17:26:51","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T17:26:51","slug":"writerly-quartet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/melvinburgess.net\/news\/writerly-quartet\/","title":{"rendered":"Writerly Quartet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At Huddersfield Uni last week with First Story North West, who do such great work getting writers into schools, and getting young people to produce wonderful compilations &#8211; one of the very few chances students get to work over a long period with writers, which shows in the work, incidentally &#8230;!<\/p>\n<p>You can find out more about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firststory.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">First Story here<\/a> &#8211; and do get in touch if you&#8217;re in the North west and are interested. \u00a0Meanwhile, here&#8217;s a bit of Phone camera fun &#8211; myself with Ian McMillan, Lemn Sissay, who gave the keynote speech, and Andy McMilla &#8211; with Kevin Duffy, publisher at Bluemoose Books, lurking in the background. Nice day out!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/melvinburgess.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/writerly-quartet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-71 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/melvinburgess.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/writerly-quartet-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"writerly quartet\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"http:\/\/melvinburgess.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/writerly-quartet-300x226.jpg 300w, http:\/\/melvinburgess.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/writerly-quartet.jpg 415w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This was the first time I heard Lemn give one of his legendary presentations. Great stuff!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Huddersfield Uni last week with First Story North West, who do such great work getting writers into schools, and getting young people to produce wonderful compilations &#8211; one of the very few chances students get to work over a long period with writers, which shows in the work, incidentally &#8230;! You can find out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-70","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/melvinburgess.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/melvinburgess.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/melvinburgess.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melvinburgess.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melvinburgess.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/melvinburgess.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73,"href":"http:\/\/melvinburgess.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/melvinburgess.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melvinburgess.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melvinburgess.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}