The Arts Council Of England Claims Literary Fiction Is In A Freefalling Crisis

Even genre fiction can't make up for the dramatic decline in reading. "It’s a much more unforgiving ecosystem for authors of literary fiction today. We inevitably end up with a situation where the people best positioned to write literary fiction are those for whom making a living isn’t an imperative. That has an effect on the diversity of who is writing – we are losing voices, and we don’t want to be in that position."

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