{"id":118,"date":"2025-11-19T06:06:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T12:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theliteraryunderground.org\/fugett\/?p=118"},"modified":"2025-11-19T06:08:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T12:08:38","slug":"the-1st-annual-brian-fugett-memorial-prize-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theliteraryunderground.org\/fugett\/2025\/11\/19\/the-1st-annual-brian-fugett-memorial-prize-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"the 1st Annual Brian Fugett Memorial Prize Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year, &#8220;A Matter of Taste: Poems of Hunger and Thirst&#8221; by Deborah Ketai was chosen as the winning manuscript. This will be Deborah&#8217;s first ever published collection at the age of 72. Thank you again to all the entrants for participating this year.<\/p>\n<p>Deborah Ketai (she\/her) writes from the intersection of bipolarity, bisexuality, and creative self-doubt, leavened with humor and wordplay. Her work has appeared in <em>Rattle, Think,<\/em> and many other venues. She and her wife live in Connecticut&#8217;s Naugatuck River Valley. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-119\" src=\"http:\/\/theliteraryunderground.org\/fugett\/files\/2025\/11\/winner-announce-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theliteraryunderground.org\/fugett\/files\/2025\/11\/winner-announce-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theliteraryunderground.org\/fugett\/files\/2025\/11\/winner-announce-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/theliteraryunderground.org\/fugett\/files\/2025\/11\/winner-announce-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/theliteraryunderground.org\/fugett\/files\/2025\/11\/winner-announce-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theliteraryunderground.org\/fugett\/files\/2025\/11\/winner-announce-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/theliteraryunderground.org\/fugett\/files\/2025\/11\/winner-announce-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/theliteraryunderground.org\/fugett\/files\/2025\/11\/winner-announce-750x750.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year, &ldquo;A Matter of Taste: Poems of Hunger and Thirst&rdquo; by Deborah Ketai was chosen as the winning manuscript. This will be Deborah&rsquo;s first ever published collection at the age of 72. Thank you again to all the entrants for participating this year. Deborah Ketai (she\/her) writes from the intersection of bipolarity, bisexuality, and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/theliteraryunderground.org\/fugett\/2025\/11\/19\/the-1st-annual-brian-fugett-memorial-prize-winner\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theliteraryunderground.org\/fugett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theliteraryunderground.org\/fugett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theliteraryunderground.org\/fugett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theliteraryunderground.org\/fugett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theliteraryunderground.org\/fugett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theliteraryunderground.org\/fugett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121,"href":"https:\/\/theliteraryunderground.org\/fugett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theliteraryunderground.org\/fugett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theliteraryunderground.org\/fugett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theliteraryunderground.org\/fugett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}