Miles Franklin long list on Twitter THE Miles Franklin Award has announced its literary long list for 2013 in a drip-feed on Twitter that took about 30 minutes to complete. Instead of a list of books the award's trustees chose to share the 10 nominees on Tuesday via pictures of the book covers every three minutes, beginning at 9am (AEDT). Eight of the authors are women and five are first-time novelists, with Tom Keneally's World War I story Daughters of Mars bringing the veteran writer into contention for a possible third Miles Franklin award. Other well-known writers who made the long list include Drusilla Modjeska for The Mountain, set in late-60s Papua New Guinea, and New York-based Lily Brett's Lola Bensky, also set in the late 60s but in the very different surrounds of rock'n'roll journalism in London.