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Eat your words: can young Australian writers afford to keep creating?

Producer: Ash Shirvington

Is the starving artist really a myth?

This question is becoming harder to answer as Australian publishing takes blows to funding and support.

Ash Shirvington interrogates this industry from the perspective of emerging writers.

Featured in this story:

Dr Ella Jeffery, Lecturer, Griffith University

Svetlana Sterlin, founding editor, swim meet lit mag

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