{"id":499,"date":"2014-07-20T14:36:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-20T06:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.haguepublishing.com\/?p=499"},"modified":"2014-07-20T14:42:09","modified_gmt":"2014-07-20T06:42:09","slug":"frontier-incursion-nominated-for-the-2014-barbara-jefferis-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/frontier-incursion-nominated-for-the-2014-barbara-jefferis-award\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Frontier Incursion&#8217; nominated for the 2014 Barbara Jefferis Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.haguepublishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/BarbaraJefferisAward.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-500\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.haguepublishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/BarbaraJefferisAward-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Barbara Jefferis Award\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/BarbaraJefferisAward-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/BarbaraJefferisAward-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/BarbaraJefferisAward.jpg 625w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Just been told that our nomination of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/sample\/FrontierIncursion-Sample.html\">Frontier Incursion<\/a><\/em>\u00a0for the 2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asauthors.org\/the-barbara-jefferis-award-1\">Barbara Jefferis Award<\/a> has been accepted.<\/p>\n<p>The Barbara Jefferis Award is offered for &#8216;the best novel written by an Australian author that depicts women and girls in a positive way or otherwise empowers the status of women and girls in society&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Barbara Jefferis was a feminist, a founding member of the Australian Society of Authors, its first woman President and, in the words of Thomas Keneally, &#8216;a rare being amongst authors, being both a fine writer but also organisationally gifted. She was a professional and internationally published writer long before most of us dreamed of such things.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The Award is paid from the Barbara Jefferis Literary Fund, which has been established as a result of a\u00a0bequest from Barbara Jefferis\u2019s husband, ABC film critic John Hinde, who died in 2006. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asauthors.org\/\">Australian Society of Authors<\/a> is Trustee of the Fund.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014 the Award is valued at $55,000, including a $50,000 prize for the winner.\u00a0This year&#8217;s Award will be assessed by Margaret Barbalet, Georgia Blain and Dorothy Johnston.<\/p>\n<p>Fingers crossed we make the short-listing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just been told that our nomination of Frontier Incursion\u00a0for the 2014 Barbara Jefferis Award has been accepted. The Barbara Jefferis Award is offered for &#8216;the best novel written by an Australian author that depicts women and girls in a positive &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/frontier-incursion-nominated-for-the-2014-barbara-jefferis-award\/\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[63,68,67],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-award","tag-barbara-jefferis","tag-frontier-incursion"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":503,"href":"https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions\/503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}