Save Creative Writing in TAFE

Mari Lourey
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/ #76 You must reconsider this

2010-11-29 05:14

As an award winning playwright who studied at RMIT between 2000 and 2003, I wish to reiterate that the importance of the current Tafe Prof Writing and Editing Course cannot be underestimated in terms of the industry based practice and training it offers.

Creative writing is not a hobby! It leads to all manner of concrete outcomes, from the people who write our TV shows, plays and films, to the myriad of freelance writers who make their living as I do, from a variety of freelance activities, both creative writing (plays), editing, teaching and facilitating. The accessability of the Tafe environment along with industry based teachers mean that real, concrete skills are developed. Do not shorten this course. It will be to the detriment of our cultural and social capital.