"There is nothing insulting in that line at all," Lexia says. "But it is in its composite. And that's a crime." She was asked to judge an inconsequential short story contest, and then told she had been stood down.
If offence is against the rules, what hope is there for radical writing? Join world-famous author Lionel Shriver to discuss the decline of in-your-face fiction and the sinister rise of sensitivity readers.
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