{"id":305,"date":"2026-09-18T18:32:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T18:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kieranmarsh.art\/?p=305"},"modified":"2026-09-18T18:32:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T18:32:38","slug":"winner-of-the-2026-molly-keane-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kieranmarsh.art\/?p=305","title":{"rendered":"Winner of the 2026 Molly Keane Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Delighted to share that my story The Singers (After Turgenev) has been awarded first prize in the Molly Keane Short  Story award from Waterford County Council and a lovely reading of it was posted online to celebrate Culture Night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-waterford-arts wp-block-embed-waterford-arts\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"34fs8Hkai9\"><a href=\"https:\/\/waterfordarts.com\/molly-keane-creative-writing-award-2026-2\/\">Molly Keane Creative Writing Award 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cMolly Keane Creative Writing Award 2026\u201d \u2014 Waterford Arts\" src=\"https:\/\/waterfordarts.com\/molly-keane-creative-writing-award-2026-2\/embed\/#?secret=SFZOM60JJR#?secret=34fs8Hkai9\" data-secret=\"34fs8Hkai9\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delighted to share that my story The Singers (After Turgenev) has been awarded first prize in the Molly Keane Short Story award from Waterford County Council and a lovely reading of it was posted online to celebrate Culture Night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phjJjS-4V","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kieranmarsh.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Untitled-design-1.png.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kieranmarsh.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kieranmarsh.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kieranmarsh.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kieranmarsh.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kieranmarsh.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kieranmarsh.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310,"href":"https:\/\/kieranmarsh.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions\/310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kieranmarsh.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kieranmarsh.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kieranmarsh.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kieranmarsh.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}