Self-published author longlisted for Miles Franklin<\/b><\/p>\n
Michael Winkler has been <\/span>longlisted for the Miles Franklin<\/span><\/a> Literary Award for <\/span>Grimmish<\/span><\/i>, a novel he self-published before it <\/span>found a commercial home<\/span><\/a> with Puncher & Wattman.<\/span><\/p>\n Winkler has written an <\/span>opinion piece for the <\/span>Age<\/span><\/i>\/<\/span>SMH<\/span><\/i><\/a>, outlining the journey from being a writer whose book no one wanted to publish to being the first self-published author <\/span>longlisted for Australia\u2019s most prestigious literary award.<\/span><\/p>\n Miles Franklin longlistee apologises for plagiarism\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n In other Miles Franklin related news, the author John Hughes, who was longlisted for his novel <\/span>The Dogs <\/span><\/i>(Upswell), has <\/span>apologised<\/span><\/a> for multiple instances of plagiarism found in his book.<\/span><\/p>\n Hughes apologised after <\/span>the <\/span>Guardian<\/span><\/i> said it found<\/span><\/a> 58 \u2018similarities and some identical sentences\u2019 in a comparison of <\/span>The Dogs<\/span><\/i> and the English translation of Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich\u2019s nonfiction book <\/span>The Unwomanly Face of War<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n Hughes\u2019 publisher <\/span>made a statement<\/span><\/a> distancing herself from the author after <\/span>more instances of plagiarism<\/span><\/a> came to light, and Hughes, also <\/span>in the <\/span>Guardian<\/span><\/i><\/a>, sought to defend himself on the grounds of artistic practice.<\/span><\/p>\n Upcoming writers festivals<\/b><\/p>\n NT Writers Festival runs 23\u201326 June in Garrmalang\/Darwin under the theme \u2018balarr | catching the light\u2019. Guests include Sarah Holland-Batt, Jazz Money, Jackie Huggins, Hannah Kent, Larissa Behrendt, John Safran, Lee Kofman, Christopher Raja, Delia Falconer, Thomas Mayor, Teela Reid and Jasmin McGaughey. For tickets and more information, click <\/span>here<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Self-published author longlisted for Miles Franklin Michael Winkler has been longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award for Grimmish, a novel he self-published before it found a commercial home with Puncher & Wattman. Winkler has written an opinion piece for the Age\/SMH, outlining the journey from being a writer whose book no one wanted to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3080,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3067","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3067"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3103,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3067\/revisions\/3103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}