How climate anxiety is changing the face of Australian fiction

Jennifer Mills says she
 hopes fiction can help
 people work through
their fear and anger
over climate change. 

When Jennifer Mills began writing her Miles Franklin longlisted book Dyschronia in 2011, there weren't a great deal of Australian novels grappling with a post-climate change world.

Fast forward several years and a large number of critically-acclaimed works have featured some sort of environmental catastrophe. Australian publishers and booksellers have even adopted a term to help classify the string of books blurring the lines between genre and literary fiction: cli-fi.

"It's an exciting time to be a novelist," Mills says. "But in some ways I wish it wasn't."

Read the story from The Age by Broede Carmody - “How climate anxiety is changing the face of Australian fiction.”