{"id":33683,"date":"2016-11-24T06:30:52","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T17:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=33683"},"modified":"2016-11-23T22:57:08","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T09:57:08","slug":"the-ockham-nz-book-awards-longlist-is-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/11\/24\/the-ockham-nz-book-awards-longlist-is-out\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ockham NZ Book Awards&#8217; Longlist Is Out!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?attachment_id=33685\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33685\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-33685\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Ockham_NZ-book-awards-trust_logo-79x150.png\" alt=\"ockham_nz-book-awards-trust_logo\" width=\"79\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Ockham_NZ-book-awards-trust_logo-79x150.png 79w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Ockham_NZ-book-awards-trust_logo.png 84w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 79px) 100vw, 79px\" \/><\/a>It feels weird to say this when it still feels very much like 2016, but the Ockham NZ Book Awards&#8217; longlist for <em>2017<\/em> has just come out.<\/p>\n<p>When I saw the list I did a wee Snoopy dance because my friend Frankie McMillan&#8217;s <em>My Mother and The Hungarians<\/em> is on it!<\/p>\n<p>Frankie and HUNGARIANS are in the hunt for the Ockham Award for fiction; they&#8217;re in pretty fine company, too, including <em>Love As A Stranger<\/em> by Owen Marshall (who was my mentor in the NZ Society of Authors Mentorship Programme in 2005. )<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/08\/23\/my-mother-and-the-hungarians-by-frankie-mcmillan-a-tuesday-feature\/my-mother-and-the-hungarians_-cover-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-32975\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-32975\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/My-Mother-and-The-Hungarians_-cover-3-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"My Mother and The Hungarians_ cover (3)\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/My-Mother-and-The-Hungarians_-cover-3-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/My-Mother-and-The-Hungarians_-cover-3-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/My-Mother-and-The-Hungarians_-cover-3.jpg 761w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>One interesting thing about <em>My Mother and The Hungarians<\/em> is that it&#8217;s a collection of flash fiction (I think that&#8217;s 500 words or less &#8212; very short stories indeed, at any rate) so it will be interesting to see how it fares against the novel-length works.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I think it has a very good chance of making the short list so now I shall just have to wait and see whether the judges agree, a wait I suspect will be far less nerve-wracking for me than for all the longlisted authors!<\/p>\n<p>I featured an excerpt from <strong><em>My Mother and the Hungarians<\/em><\/strong> here on August 23. To read it, click on:<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/08\/23\/my-mother-and-the-hungarians-by-frankie-mcmillan-a-tuesday-feature\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">The house on Holloway Street<\/span><\/a><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It feels weird to say this when it still feels very much like 2016, but the Ockham NZ Book Awards&#8217; longlist for 2017 has just come out. When I saw the list I did a wee Snoopy dance because my friend Frankie McMillan&#8217;s My Mother and The Hungarians is on it! Frankie and HUNGARIANS are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-other-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33683"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33688,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33683\/revisions\/33688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}