{"id":24718,"date":"2018-11-02T16:04:39","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T16:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=24718"},"modified":"2018-11-02T16:04:39","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T16:04:39","slug":"shortlist-released-for-prize-to-the-books-rejecting-violence-against-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/shortlist-released-for-prize-to-the-books-rejecting-violence-against-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortlist released for prize to the books rejecting violence against women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_24723\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24723\" class=\"size-large wp-image-24723\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2018\/11\/Stalker-1-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"493\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-24723\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patrik Nygren @Flickr<\/p><\/div>\n<p><b>The Staunch Book Prize is the first of a kind award that embraces the #metoo spirit<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Six works have been nominated, including Anna Porter\u2019s\u00a0The Appraisal,\u00a0If I Die Tonight\u00a0by A L\u00a0Gaylin,\u00a0East of Hounslow\u00a0by\u00a0Khurrum\u00a0Rahman,\u00a0On the Java Ridge\u00a0by Jock\u00a0Serong,\u00a0The Kennedy Moment\u00a0by Peter Adamson, and\u00a0Cops and Queens\u00a0by Joyce Thompson.<\/p>\n<p>Founder of the prize, Bridget Lawless, started it as a result of her frustration with the high number of books, films and TV programmes being awarded for their plots made up of gruesome scenes of women being beaten up, sexually assaulted and stalked. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Lawless argued that this practice normalises what happens every day in society. She is definitely not the only one to demand change. She strives to encourage a new wave of writers who can pen down engrossing stories, without exploiting violence against women.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The founder could not stress enough, when interviewed by the Independent, that: \u201cWhile real rape survivors struggle to be heard and counted, fictional rape victims take the stage \u2013 usually as two dimensional characters \u2013 in stories that celebrate the cunning (often, charming sexiness\/astonishing brutality)\u00a0of serial rapists and the dogged brilliance of detectives.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We wanted to show not only readers but producers, directors and actors that there are amazing, complex stories being written today by authors with truly fresh ideas, great imagination and brilliant plotting skill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The shortlisted titles will have a dedicated display at the Waterstones Piccadilly, as was revealed to the Voice of London.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Words: Federica Riondino | Subbing: Millie Richardson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Staunch Book Prize is the first of a kind award that embraces the #metoo spirit Six works have been nominated, including Anna Porter\u2019s\u00a0The Appraisal,\u00a0If I Die Tonight\u00a0by A L\u00a0Gaylin,\u00a0East of Hounslow\u00a0by\u00a0Khurrum\u00a0Rahman,\u00a0On the Java&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":24723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-entertainment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}