{"id":11109,"date":"2013-08-19T00:20:04","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T00:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/?p=11109"},"modified":"2013-08-19T00:20:04","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T00:20:04","slug":"debut-litzer-fiction-prize-nomination-for-malarky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/2013\/08\/19\/debut-litzer-fiction-prize-nomination-for-malarky\/","title":{"rendered":"Debut-Litzer Fiction prize nomination for Malarky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a lovely surprise on landing at YVR to learn Malarky has been nominated for the Debut-Litzer\u00a0\u00a0Fiction Prize along with two very interesting sounding short story collections: <em>Garbage Night at the Opera\u00a0<\/em>by Valerie Fioravanti and\u00a0<em>Favorite Monster<br \/>\n<\/em>by Sharma Shields.\u00a0A shortlist of three women writers. Yippee!<\/p>\n<p>I am not entirely sure what the Debut-Litzer\u00a0Prize is (a play on Pulitzer) but I am never fluent in book prizes. I am fluent in weather speculation and inadvertent ways to kill my dill plant.<\/p>\n<p>I understand it&#8217;s given out by a wonderful sounding arts organization in Portland and Brooklyn called <a href=\"http:\/\/latenightlibrary.org\/\">Late Night Library<\/a>. We salute anything with the word library in the title and is awarded to &#8220;talented writers early in their careers&#8221;. Late Night Library also organize multi-genre events, reading series and most importantly have a national campaign to support\u00a0independent bookstores and publishers. (sound the trumpets! + again!)<\/p>\n<p>Thank you Late Night Library for this lovely surprise of a nomination and your splendid work to support bookstores and publishers and writers. Congratulations to all the writers nominated in the different categories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a lovely surprise on landing at YVR to learn Malarky has been nominated for the Debut-Litzer\u00a0\u00a0Fiction Prize along with two very interesting sounding short story collections: Garbage Night at the Opera\u00a0by Valerie Fioravanti and\u00a0Favorite Monster by Sharma Shields.\u00a0A shortlist of three women writers. Yippee! I am not entirely sure what the Debut-Litzer\u00a0Prize is [&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-11109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11109","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=11109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}