{"id":11468,"date":"2013-04-16T08:12:53","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T07:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=11468"},"modified":"2013-04-26T19:38:26","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T18:38:26","slug":"ratha-yatra-bhakti-writers-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=11468","title":{"rendered":"Ratha Yatra Bhakti Writers Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Krishna Priya Dasi: Jagannatha Ratha Yatra Writing Competition<\/p>\n

Ratha Yatra season arrives with the beginning of summer. It\u2019s a time when ISKCON introduces Srila Prabhupada, prasada, the holy name, and especially Lord Jagannatha to thousands of people worldwide! <\/p>\n

The Bhakti Writers Community is hosting a writing competition sponsored by the Philadelphia Ratha Yatra Committee. We\u2019re looking for fiction and nonfiction pieces that present Ratha Yatra, kirtan, or Srila Prabhupada. <\/p>\n

The winning submission will be published in Philadelphia\u2019s Annual Ratha Yatra souvenir magazine, and there will be other prizes.<\/p>\n

Want to build your confidence in your writing? The Bhakti Writers Community offers writers help and support from idea to polished piece. <\/p>\n

For submission guidelines and information on prizes: Bhaktiwriters.com\/competition<\/p>\n

Writing Prompt:<\/p>\n

Write a 500-word creative nonfiction piece on the meaning, importance, and\/or your experience of kirtan, Ratha Yatra or Srila Prabhupada. Your piece should be engaging, thought-provoking, and resonate with devotees and nondevotees alike. <\/p>\n

Creative nonfiction communicates factual information through the literary techniques common to fiction. Biography, personal essay, memoir, and travel writing are examples of creative nonfiction. Deadline: June 15<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Krishna Priya Dasi: Ratha Yatra season arrives with the beginning of summer. It\u2019s a time when ISKCON introduces Srila Prabhupada, prasada, the holy name, and especially Lord Jagannatha to thousands of people worldwide!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-message-board"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}