"The biggest con job in academia" - that is how Lucy Ellmann has famously described creative writing degrees. Hanif Kureishi said (ironically, given that he was a teaching writing at Kingston University at the time) that "most [teachers] are going to teach you stuff that is a waste of time". Creative writing courses have always been viewed sceptically, and yet more than 100 universities in the UK now offer them. If it is a con job, it's certainly a popular and effective one.
Creative writing: a 'con job'?
9 August 2021
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