We're thrilled to announce some exciting news from across the seas this week, as the long-list for the 2021 DUBLIN Literary Award is released. Amongst a host of stellar books sits our very own Stephen Orr and his marvellous This Excellent Machine. Read on to find out what the judges are saying ...
Continue readingWakefield Press is thrilled to announce that Carol Lefevre's Quiet City: Walking through West Terrace Cemetery has been shortlisted in the Non-Fiction category of the 2018 Adelaide Festival Awards for literature. Winners in each category will be announced on Saturday 3 March in 2018 during Writers' Week. Visit the Arts SA website to see the other shortlisted titles, and for more information on SA Writers' Week. About Quiet City: I do not think that I believe…
Continue readingThe Miles Franklin announcement is not far away. This award is arguably the most important on the Australian literary scene. In his Brief Take on the Australian Novel, Jean François-Vernay structures his approach by borrowing from another popular art form: film. Here we have his 'Low-angle shot of the Miles Franklin Award'. In line with the wishes of Stella Franklin, who bequeathed almost all of her estate estimated at £8,996 to establish this literary prize, the Miles Franklin…
Continue readingMargaret 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 'women and girls in a positive way or otherwise empowers the status of women and girls in society'. Read an extract of The First Week here or skip that and buy a copy here.You can read more about the award here and see…
Continue readingLet the awards for Nature's Line begin. The shortlist for the very highly respected Ernest Scott Prize was announced today, and Janis Sheldrick's amazing George Goyder biography is top of the list! With some spot on judges' comments, too. We're incredibly proud of this book, and the mammoth amount of work, love and dedication put into by Janis. We're definitely expecting more from where this came from. Congratulations Janis!
Continue readingAm I repeating myself? Because they're ace. We've always known it, but it's nice when they get the recognition they deserve, as is happening at the moment -- Hard on the heels of Margaret Merrilees's shortlisting for the Glenda Adams Prize for New Writing, we now have not one but two longlistings from the Nita B. Kibble Awards as well! The first is Rachel Hennessy, whose novel The Heaven I Swallowed was runner-up for the Australian/Vogel…
Continue readingGuess who has just been shortlisted for the Glenda Adams Prize for New Fiction? CONGRATULATIONS MARGARET! Not that anyone here at Wakefield HQ is surprised. The First Week is gripping, beautifully written, and stays with you for a long time after you've finished reading. Click here to read an extract.
Continue readingThe cost of implementing an ERP system is easily eclipsed by the ROI of a more efficient, fully optimized business environment. How is ERP different? ERP is a method of organizing and managing systems of information. Most businesses have a web-based or networked IT infrastructure (or both). ERP was developed as a way of using existing information systems to organize and manage existing information. ERP consists of two main components: the management system and the…
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