{"id":2501,"date":"2014-06-17T13:49:38","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T13:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/?p=2501"},"modified":"2014-06-17T13:49:38","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T13:49:38","slug":"jennifer-makumbi-wins-commonwealth-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/jennifer-makumbi-wins-commonwealth-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Makumbi wins Commonwealth Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Jennifer-Nansubuga-Makumbi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2502\" alt=\"Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Jennifer-Nansubuga-Makumbi-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi has won\u00a0the Commonwealth short story prize for a piece praised by judges for its &#8220;risk-taking, grace and breadth&#8221;.\u00a0Jennifer is a Ugandan who recently completed her PhD in Creative Writing at Lancaster University. \u00a0She beat contenders from around the world to win\u00a0the \u00a35,000 award\u00a0for &#8216;Let&#8217;s Tell This Story Properly&#8217;. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2014\/jun\/13\/commonwealth-short-story-prize-uganda-reputation?CMP=twt_gu\">Read the\u00a0<i>Guardian<\/i>\u00a0article on Jennifer&#8217;s Commonwealth prize<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi has won\u00a0the Commonwealth short story prize for a piece praised by judges for its &#8220;risk-taking, grace and breadth&#8221;.\u00a0Jennifer is a Ugandan who recently completed her PhD in Creative Writing at Lancaster University. \u00a0She beat contenders from around the world to win\u00a0the \u00a35,000 award\u00a0for &#8216;Let&#8217;s Tell This Story Properly&#8217;. \u00a0Read the\u00a0Guardian\u00a0article on Jennifer&#8217;s&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/jennifer-makumbi-wins-commonwealth-prize\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jennifer Makumbi wins Commonwealth Prize<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,13,41,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-competitions","category-news","category-short-stories","category-writing","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2503,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501\/revisions\/2503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}