Monday, October 06, 2008

Creative Craving

There's a hunger out there ... People don't feel satisfied in their day jobs, they feel spiritually impoverished and they want to do something creative. Not everybody wants to publish a book but they want to make a change in their lives, make a break with the past.
Lecturer Antoni Jach talks to Jane Sullivan in the Age about the huge increase in the number of creative writing courses in Australia and the number of students taking them. The TAFE courses have been particularly successful and Jach reckons its students have produced about 100 published books. The impressive list of alumni includes Miles Franklin winner Alexis Wright.

And next year RMIT is launching its bachelor in creative writing.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

WAW..BACHELOR OF CREATIVE WRITING!
Creative writing is a gift that can be developed by cources and can not be taught for a person who don't have this gift.
Dr.Mustafa Awadelkarem
Creative writing Course BKL 2007-2008
Sudan
002499123680

Anonymous said...

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bibliobibuli said...

hi mustafa!!! how are you and how is the writing going? lovely to see you here. glad to see that you are reading me all the way from sudan.

Chet said...

Hmm ... your blog's becoming a place to advertise, Sharon! You need to draw up an advertising rate sheet.

bibliobibuli said...

mustapha was one of my creative writing course participants, Chet.

Anonymous said...

Spiritually impverished or physically impoverished, what a choice to have to make :P

"Creative writing is a gift that can be developed by cources and can not be taught for a person who don't have this gift."

One of your students wrote this? um, not that I'm saying it's a badly written sentence, mind, but if one had successfully undertaken a creative language course, shouldn't one be writing a little more consequentially?

(how's my sense of understatement, Bib ? :) )