{"id":4824,"date":"2025-07-01T02:04:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T02:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-oldgirls\/?post_type=article&#038;p=4824"},"modified":"2025-07-01T02:04:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T02:04:50","slug":"congratulations-to-dr-fiona-mcfarlane-1995","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-oldgirls\/article\/congratulations-to-dr-fiona-mcfarlane-1995\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Dr Fiona McFarlane (1995)!\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are thrilled to share that MLC School Old Girl, Dr Fiona McFarlane (1995), has been shortlisted for the <b>2025 Miles Franklin Literary Award<\/b>\u00a0with her novel <i>Highway 13<\/i>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, Dr McFarlane was honoured with the <b>MLC School Alumnae Award for Cultural Contribution<\/b>, and this latest recognition is a testament to her continued impact on Australian literature.<\/p>\n<p>The winner will be announced on <b>24 July<\/b>\u00a0\u2014 the MLC School community is cheering for you, Fiona!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are thrilled to share that MLC School Old Girl, Dr Fiona McFarlane (1995), has been shortlisted for the 2025 Miles Franklin Literary Award\u00a0with her novel Highway 13\u00a0 In 2023, Dr McFarlane was honoured with the MLC School Alumnae Award for Cultural Contribution, and this latest recognition is a testament to her continued impact on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","article_category":[7],"article_tag":[],"class_list":["post-4824","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_category-old-girls-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-oldgirls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/4824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-oldgirls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-oldgirls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-oldgirls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-oldgirls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-oldgirls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-oldgirls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_category?post=4824"},{"taxonomy":"article_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-oldgirls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_tag?post=4824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}