{"id":78899,"date":"2016-08-03T10:30:04","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T14:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/?p=78899"},"modified":"2016-08-02T22:55:16","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T02:55:16","slug":"provenance-is-a-2016-wheatley-book-award-finalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/?p=78899","title":{"rendered":"PROVENANCE is a 2016 Wheatley Book Award Finalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_78900\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-78900\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-78900\" src=\"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/LOC-Phillis-Wheatley-image-cropped.jpg\" alt=\"Phillis Wheatley (Library of Congress) \" width=\"360\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/LOC-Phillis-Wheatley-image-cropped.jpg 360w, https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/LOC-Phillis-Wheatley-image-cropped-234x300.jpg 234w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-78900\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phillis Wheatley (Library of Congress)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I\u2019m so excited that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harlembookfair.com\/#!wheatleybookawards\/cjg9\">The Harlem Book Fair chose my novel, <em>Provenance<\/em>, as a First Fiction Finalist for the 2016 Wheatley Book Awards<\/a>. The Harlem Book Fair is the largest African American book fair in the United States and the Wheatley Awards are named in honor of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phillis_Wheatley\">American Poet Phillis Wheatley<\/a> (1752 \u2013 1784), the first published African-American female writer. The mission of the annual competition is to recognize literary work and advocacy that transcends culture, country and perception.<\/p>\n<p>While <em>Provenance<\/em> did not win, I was in great company and I am very honored to have my work recognized by this renowned national competition. Thank you, Harlem Book Fair!<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the winners and other finalists see the <a href=\"http:\/\/aalbc.com\/books\/pw-award-winning-books.php?year=2016\">Phillis Wheatley Book Award Winning Books feature<\/a> on the aalbc.com website. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phillis_Wheatley\">More information about Phillis Wheatley is available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m so excited that The Harlem Book Fair chose my novel, Provenance, as a First Fiction Finalist for the 2016 Wheatley Book Awards. The Harlem Book Fair is the largest African American book fair in the United States and the Wheatley Awards are named in honor of American Poet Phillis Wheatley (1752 \u2013 1784), the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177,166],"tags":[119,49,178,179],"class_list":["post-78899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-book-festivals","tag-african-american-authors","tag-donna-drew-sawyer","tag-harlem-book-fair","tag-phillis-wheatley-book-awards"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78899"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78902,"href":"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78899\/revisions\/78902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}