{"id":11107,"date":"2013-08-18T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-18T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/?p=11107"},"modified":"2013-08-18T23:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-18T23:59:00","slug":"irish-times-article-book-prizes-are-a-fishy-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/2013\/08\/18\/irish-times-article-book-prizes-are-a-fishy-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Times article: Book Prizes are a fishy business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a short piece I wrote for Saturday&#8217;s Irish Times on the matter of trying to stuff my dinner under a chair at the First Novel Prize event at the Four Seasons in TO.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/culture\/books\/word-for-word-book-prizes-can-be-a-fishy-business-1.1494189\">&#8220;When I learned I\u2019d been shortlisted for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award for my debut novel,\u00a0<em>Malarky<\/em>, and would be travelling to Toronto for the award event, I immediately invited everyone in Toronto who had ever done me a favour.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/culture\/books\/word-for-word-book-prizes-can-be-a-fishy-business-1.1494189\">As I don\u2019t know many people in Toronto, this included a woman working in the Bloor Street Mac makeup shop I\u2019d met once. Sadly, she did not reply.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/culture\/books\/word-for-word-book-prizes-can-be-a-fishy-business-1.1494189\">Happily, I gathered a further four women to join me. My entire focus for that event was on the snacks we would be served on the night. I would anticipate them, study them and live tweet them.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a short piece I wrote for Saturday&#8217;s Irish Times on the matter of trying to stuff my dinner under a chair at the First Novel Prize event at the Four Seasons in TO. &#8220;When I learned I\u2019d been shortlisted for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award for my debut novel,\u00a0Malarky, and would be travelling to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}