{"id":1093,"date":"2024-03-13T20:16:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T20:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/?p=1093"},"modified":"2025-01-16T20:57:11","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T20:57:11","slug":"winner-university-of-michigan-press-millions-of-suns-writing-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/2024\/03\/13\/winner-university-of-michigan-press-millions-of-suns-writing-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Winner &#8211; University of Michigan Press&#8217; Millions of Suns Writing Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"384\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mikepiero.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Millions-of-Suns-Writing-Contest-Winners_rb_blogfeatured.png?resize=960%2C384&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1106\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mikepiero.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Millions-of-Suns-Writing-Contest-Winners_rb_blogfeatured.png?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mikepiero.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Millions-of-Suns-Writing-Contest-Winners_rb_blogfeatured.png?resize=300%2C120&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mikepiero.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Millions-of-Suns-Writing-Contest-Winners_rb_blogfeatured.png?resize=768%2C307&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mike Piero&#8217;s flash fiction story, &#8220;Rituals&#8221; won University of Michigan Press&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/press.umich.edu\/Blog\/2024\/03\/Millions-of-Suns-Writing-Contest-Winners\"><em>Millions of Suns<\/em> Writing Contest<\/a> in 2024 in the Fiction category. The story emerged from one of the excellent writing prompts in Sharon Fagan McDermott and M. C. Benner Dixon&#8217;s recent writing book, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/press.umich.edu\/Books\/M\/Millions-of-Suns2\">Millions of Suns: On Writing and Life<\/a><\/em>. Their book is available for purchase and would make a great gift for anyone in your life that writes fiction or poetry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Rituals&#8221; is still available for first-time publication. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Piero&#8217;s flash fiction story, &#8220;Rituals&#8221; won University of Michigan Press&#8217; Millions of Suns Writing Contest in 2024 in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1106,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[56,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards","category-publication-fiction"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mikepiero.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Millions-of-Suns-Writing-Contest-Winners_rb_blogfeatured.png?fit=960%2C384&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1093"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1116,"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions\/1116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}