As Eva Sallis, she is an award -
winning writer of literary fiction and criticism: her first novel Hiam won The Australian / Vogel Literary Award in 1997 and the Nita May Dobbie Award in 1999.
According to this rule, the large majority
of writers of literary fiction aren't «authors,» because they make a significant portion of their livings by teaching, and not solely from their book sales.
As a reader and
writer of literary fiction, I want to see more great literary work published and more writers of those books earning a fair share of the profits those novels generate.
However,
writers of literary fiction can be their own worst enemy and tend to be the authorial sub-population most averse to change: digital, self - publishing, the internet, Amazon, subscription services, social media, cheap / free e-books — pick the reader - friendly innovation of your choice from the last five years and literary writers will often be (proudly) against it.
Robert Boswell is known to some fans as
the writer of literary fiction, including Tumbledown, which was just released by Graywolf Press.
I'm happy to define myself as both a writer of genre fiction with literary elements and
a writer of literary fiction with speculative fiction elements.
Why do we have to have this arbitrary divide that causes
some writers of literary fiction to deny their works are speculative fiction and leads literary critics to look down on genre writing?
So, the question is this: Where will
writers of literary fiction and their readers find safe haven, and how will they get there?