your guide to the 2023 Miles Franklin shortlist
- Written by Julienne van Loon, Associate Professor in Creative Writing, School of Culture & Communication, The University of Melbourne

This year’s Miles Franklin shortlist takes us from Sydney’s criminal underclass in the 1930s and the quiet waters of rural Tasmania in the 1940s to shopping for design objects in contemporary Japan.
Its styles range from the sparse, economical prose of the experimental novella to an intricately plotted page-turner.
And the six...