A touch of hope after the doom? Your guide to the Miles Franklin 2022 shortlist
- Written by Jen Webb, Dean, Graduate Research, University of Canberra

This year’s Miles Franklin shortlist is lyrical in voice, complex in form, and perhaps a little more hopeful than usual. The threads of shared concern across the volumes leave me wondering whether there is something in the zeitgeist.
Maybe it’s writers, publishers and judges reacting to the doom of the past two years, and the dread of...
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