'So, what difference does it make?' A collective interview

In this collective interview, more than thirty academics and industry professionals discuss the dramatic changes that have taken place in the production, distribution, reception and consumption of literature over the last few years. Writing teachers, agents, publishers, arts administrators, reviewers, academics, translators, festival organisers, book designers, prize judges, novelists, memoirists and poets offer their reflections on (among other topics) the effect of university writing programmes, new technologies for writing and reading, and the transformation of the publishing and bookselling trades. They also consider the impact these broad institutional and technological changes might have had on writing itself - on the kinds of books that get published, reviewed and read, and their subject matter, genre and form.