{"id":812,"date":"2012-07-14T13:01:37","date_gmt":"2012-07-14T12:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/?p=812"},"modified":"2012-07-14T13:01:37","modified_gmt":"2012-07-14T12:01:37","slug":"nick-wood-julyaug-2012-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/?p=812","title":{"rendered":"Nick Wood &#8211; July\/Aug 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have another short story accepted for publication this past month, this time \u2018<em>Azania\u2019<\/em>, which will be published in <strong>Ivor Hartmann\u2019s<\/strong> forthcoming anthology \u2018<em>Afrofutures\u2019<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afrofutures.com\/magazine\/2012\/01\/a-new-anthology-of-science-fiction-by-african-writers\/\">http:\/\/www.afrofutures.com\/magazine\/2012\/01\/a-new-anthology-of-science-fiction-by-african-writers\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For those of you interested in African science fiction, there is an excellent BBC podcast hosted by <strong>Lauren Beukes<\/strong> here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p00t4yn2\">http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p00t4yn2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I will be in Cape Town for 2 weeks overlapping July and August, presenting with colleagues on a Symposium at the <em>International Congress of Psychology<\/em> around peace and violence in Africa. Our symposium is scheduled for Monday 23<sup>rd<\/sup> July, with topics being Child survivors of armed conflict and violence in Africa; Women who bear children through rape in Goma, Eastern Congo; Justice and health responses for survivors of sexual violence: A case study of Northern Uganda and Narrative analysis of loss of limb experiences within a Sierra Leone amputee football team. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icp2012.com\/index.php?bodyhtml=home.html\">http:\/\/www.icp2012.com\/index.php?bodyhtml=home.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Something Wicked<\/em> magazine from South Africa are looking for funds to launch their inaugural anthology. Please think about donating \u2013 they have only a week left to meet their target. The proposed book is rich with talented writers and great stories: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/Something-Wicked-volume-one\">http:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/Something-Wicked-volume-one<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finally and certainly not least, my wonderful cousin (<strong>Rachel Stafford)<\/strong> is renewing her battle with cancer and any help would be appreciated:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/fundrazr.com\/campaigns\/3Ksta\">https:\/\/fundrazr.com\/campaigns\/3Ksta<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Nick Wood<\/p>\n<p>July\/Aug 2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have another short story accepted for publication this past month, this time \u2018Azania\u2019, which will be published in Ivor Hartmann\u2019s forthcoming anthology \u2018Afrofutures\u2019: http:\/\/www.afrofutures.com\/magazine\/2012\/01\/a-new-anthology-of-science-fiction-by-african-writers\/ For those of you interested in African science fiction, there is an excellent BBC podcast hosted by Lauren Beukes here: http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p00t4yn2 I will be in Cape Town for 2 weeks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2012blogs","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}