{"id":1128,"date":"2025-05-06T08:20:58","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T07:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unamccormack.co.uk\/?p=1128"},"modified":"2025-10-08T03:36:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T02:36:59","slug":"august-2022-join-una-at-a-speculative-fiction-writers-retreat-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unamccormack.co.uk\/?p=1128","title":{"rendered":"An Award! And My Column at Interzone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s 2025, where does the time go! I am honoured to say that one of my books recently won an award. My <em>Doctor Who <\/em>novel<em> <a href=\"https:\/\/unamccormack.co.uk\/?books=doctor-who-caged\" data-type=\"books\" data-id=\"1257\">Caged<\/a><\/em> won the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.starburstmagazine.com\/2025-bsfa-award-winners-announced\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fiction for Younger Readers award from the British Science Fiction Association.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p>A project I particularly want to flag up is my ongoing column with <a class=\"x_link\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" title=\"Protected by Outlook: https:\/\/link.mail.beehiiv.com\/ss\/c\/u001.U9R5J2NrZSpAJfVBTCu58JWAd-_GgVdvmPV_2LldiZ-bagF_3eU7djVAkQHgT-x96JjJfvnkI0hlzKd3EsvOxFJGWO-49rfD-YJvmyhIePJRL2F5d8nlqpA2Nfykyqe3goegW6MxlduyPQUlwDx_nL3WBheaaaWj_NYg8efmFS_wPXDsY8nbhRI2gh3g4J8oYdH_u5one6dDas8lDukEdMosJKsKmfI9E27_BMlHYZFjsaqUvb-xppwfRphGLW2f\/4fy\/9hXDEn_MQMCJUk351o2OCQ\/h8\/h001.6yBYdO7W79M6bzoa7U-M2kzVLKpwXYt0HahI7k9g1Xw. Click or tap to follow the link.\" data-linkindex=\"8\" href=\"https:\/\/na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flink.mail.beehiiv.com%2Fss%2Fc%2Fu001.U9R5J2NrZSpAJfVBTCu58JWAd-_GgVdvmPV_2LldiZ-bagF_3eU7djVAkQHgT-x96JjJfvnkI0hlzKd3EsvOxFJGWO-49rfD-YJvmyhIePJRL2F5d8nlqpA2Nfykyqe3goegW6MxlduyPQUlwDx_nL3WBheaaaWj_NYg8efmFS_wPXDsY8nbhRI2gh3g4J8oYdH_u5one6dDas8lDukEdMosJKsKmfI9E27_BMlHYZFjsaqUvb-xppwfRphGLW2f%2F4fy%2F9hXDEn_MQMCJUk351o2OCQ%2Fh8%2Fh001.6yBYdO7W79M6bzoa7U-M2kzVLKpwXYt0HahI7k9g1Xw&amp;data=05%7C02%7C%7C58beb6a71fc44fb8d46908dd83dfebb3%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638811719945821596%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=vYH8VKzXfLO4PBukTS3nQV%2BXQ9g2f1tdORjq9elwyeE%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><span>Interzone<\/span><\/a>. It\u2019s called <i>Dancing in the Library<\/i>, and its my reflections on my reread of Ursula K Le Guin, as I make my way through the volumes published by the <a class=\"x_link\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" title=\"Protected by Outlook: https:\/\/link.mail.beehiiv.com\/ss\/c\/u001.-uFf4PMmZq62s26nO0x7vw5uTyOV1ewebC9ju8otSsfzJPfGjRtQTyGtMeEQInsruhQPYaOYJSoQTQY41WE59fv2FaAy0e-Fmk-56oyWgzYAnqDwDt6VXIvTwogwwlS-JdW2jv5f8OPTfOHqtdNbrZRNBawjybWsOu7j7-9IdxfWl0L1AFOlqdK6qGBQZlSfefs_ur_Kgp8xFww41h10wYLSQzps4IOlDQeGTGxYxBpZBQwaBLpm2-cjWMFPf3JbOGvwy0QBgsKP6J1e8whyiw\/4fy\/9hXDEn_MQMCJUk351o2OCQ\/h9\/h001.CUCQEZYKSKiirERzYZhgOjOr3DWvOQ8k8-ZDMvdzEDE. Click or tap to follow the link.\" data-linkindex=\"9\" href=\"https:\/\/na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flink.mail.beehiiv.com%2Fss%2Fc%2Fu001.-uFf4PMmZq62s26nO0x7vw5uTyOV1ewebC9ju8otSsfzJPfGjRtQTyGtMeEQInsruhQPYaOYJSoQTQY41WE59fv2FaAy0e-Fmk-56oyWgzYAnqDwDt6VXIvTwogwwlS-JdW2jv5f8OPTfOHqtdNbrZRNBawjybWsOu7j7-9IdxfWl0L1AFOlqdK6qGBQZlSfefs_ur_Kgp8xFww41h10wYLSQzps4IOlDQeGTGxYxBpZBQwaBLpm2-cjWMFPf3JbOGvwy0QBgsKP6J1e8whyiw%2F4fy%2F9hXDEn_MQMCJUk351o2OCQ%2Fh9%2Fh001.CUCQEZYKSKiirERzYZhgOjOr3DWvOQ8k8-ZDMvdzEDE&amp;data=05%7C02%7C%7C58beb6a71fc44fb8d46908dd83dfebb3%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638811719945832380%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=mjjL%2BHv4Oow%2Fb7qlOwIFRW2yrki7YDhT8UhPwxpCy%2FE%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><span>Library of America<\/span><\/a>. I\u2019ve written two so far (the first on the Orsinian stories, the second on the early Hainish stories), and the rest will be coming over the next few months. So do a good deed for the day and subscribe to Interzone!<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s 2025, where does the time go! I am honoured to say that one of my books recently won an award. My Doctor Who novel Caged won the Fiction for Younger Readers award from the British Science Fiction Association. A project I particularly want to flag up is my ongoing column with Interzone. It\u2019s called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[98,97,95],"class_list":{"0":"post-1128","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-whatsnew","7":"tag-additional-writing","8":"tag-awards","9":"tag-doctor-who","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unamccormack.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unamccormack.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unamccormack.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unamccormack.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unamccormack.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1128"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/unamccormack.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1293,"href":"https:\/\/unamccormack.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions\/1293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unamccormack.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unamccormack.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unamccormack.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}