There has been almost as much editorial comment on the proliferation of creative writing courses as there has been the production of these 'dream factories'.The latest in Overland by Rjurik Davidson.
There's been a converse reduction in the number of literary novels published in Australia in comparison with the number of creative writing PhD's being published.
What does this mean for reading and writing? What does this mean for a shared culture?
I am not anxious about the number of people writing books, nor reduction in books being published. These acts of literacy and literature perhaps balance each other out in a way.
It's the commodification of education that is troubling. It seems the consumer mindset has beset everyone even students of 'creative' writing.
