30 October 2017
What a difference a decade or so makes. Not so long ago-2004, to be exact-journalist and author David Marr wrote that his main impression of judging that year's Miles Franklin Award, Australia's most prestigious literary prize, was "how very little good writing there is." He noted that Australia's already-small market for literary fiction was shrinking and that Australian outposts of multinational publishers were cutting back on fiction and ignoring unsolicited submissions.
