{"id":1119,"date":"2014-10-13T13:13:04","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T02:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/?p=1119"},"modified":"2014-10-13T13:13:04","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T02:43:04","slug":"another-accolade-for-the-first-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/2014\/10\/another-accolade-for-the-first-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Another accolade for The First Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/files\/newsletters\/firstweek.jpg?resize=172%2C268\" alt=\"&lt;em&gt;The First Week&lt;em&gt; launch\" width=\"172\" height=\"268\" \/>Margaret Merrilees can add another feather to her cap*. Her debut novel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/product.php?productid=1117&amp;cat=0&amp;page=1\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The First Week<\/em><\/a> has been shortlisted for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asauthors.org\/the-barbara-jefferis-award-1\" target=\"_blank\">Barbara Jefferis Award<\/a>, a very cool award that celebrates work that depicts &#8216;women and girls in a positive way or otherwise empowers the status of women and girls in society&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Read an extract of <em>The First Week<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/files\/extracts\/First_Week_extract.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> or skip that and buy a copy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/product.php?productid=1117&amp;cat=0&amp;page=1\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.You can read more about the award <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asauthors.org\/the-barbara-jefferis-award-1\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and see the full (and awesome) shortlist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asauthors.org\/barbara-jefferis-award-shortlist-2014\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One of the judges, Dorothy Johnston, has written about the judging process <a href=\"http:\/\/dorothyjohnston.com.au\/barbara-jefferis-award-shortlist\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, and pointed out that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Another interesting point to note is that, out of seven shortlisted titles, four were published by small (or small to medium-sized) publishers, although by far the greatest number of entries were submitted by the \u2018big names\u2019 \u2013 Penguin, Random House, Allen &amp; Unwin and so on.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tiny but mighty, over here. And we couldn&#8217;t be prouder.<\/p>\n<p>*Is that the right saying? What does it even <em>mean<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Margaret Merrilees can add another feather to her cap*. Her debut novel The First Week has been shortlisted for the Barbara Jefferis Award, a very cool award that celebrates work that depicts &#8216;women and girls in a positive way or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/2014\/10\/another-accolade-for-the-first-week\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[295,296,58,59],"class_list":["post-1119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","tag-barbara-jefferis-award","tag-independent-publishing","tag-margaret-merrilees","tag-the-first-week"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4v1Of-i3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1119"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1155,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions\/1155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}