Save Creative Writing in TAFE

The great thing about TAFE creative PWE courses is that they enable a student to gain vocational skills yet give the student some space in which to think creatively, mix with like-minded creative people (to develop a network of peers) and experiment with many different kinds of writing styles. Diminishing the creative component in TAFE PWE means that less-privileged would-be fiction writers who cannot (for whatever reason) attend a high-level creative-writing course at a university will be left in the cold.
I am a published fiction writer, a working editor and a teacher of editing up to masters level. I was also kicked out of school at the age of sixteen. I can say with absolute confidence that if it weren't for the RMIT creative PWE course I did many years ago, my career in the writing arts would simply not have got started. Long live creative PWE!