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Literature in the 21st Century: Understanding Models of Support for Literary Fiction
There were 19 women and 15 men amongst the group of interviewees.
A large proportion of the group wished to remain anonymous, or have
parts of the discussion kept off the record. Once this was assured, it
does not seem to have impeded free and frank discussion. Interviews
were conducted in person, over the phone or via email, with a
preference for the first two. The approach was to start with the set of
questions of the survey to offer consistency across the methods but
then broaden the discussion from there in line with the interviewees
personal knowledge and take on the subject. The base questions are
listed again below:
1.) Are sales of literary fiction rising or falling in your view?
2.) Is there less appetite for risk/marketing resource in the market
today than there was?
3.) Are advances falling and are writers taking on more financial risk
themselves?
4.) Is there a particular concern for writers from a BAME or any other
background?
5.) What other models of support are available to writers – what
grants, funding or sources of income might be on offer?
6.) Are there new opportunities for writer support? Are there new
business models, organisations, companies or technologies that
might help?
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