'When Muriel Spark met Shirley Hazzard, in the early 1960s, both were rising stars at The New Yorker. Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie was published almost in full just weeks after Hazzard’s first submission, a short story, had been plucked out of the slush pile in April of 1961.' (Introduction)
'Eight years ago, I wrote a short piece for Overland called ‘Pay the Writers’. I was fed up with being asked to work for ‘exposure’. It was a time when a lot of writing work was moving online, and this work was often unpaid. Writers were at risk of losing our incomes entirely. If anything needed some exposure, it was the working conditions of freelancers.' (Introduction)
