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Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 The Ideal Reader
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'NEARLY 30 YEARS have passed since I took my last class as a teacher of fiction-writing at tertiary level. I was employed as such a teacher for 16 years, and during that time I presided over more than 2000 classes. (I’m trying to avoid reporting that I actually taught fiction-writing. I certainly helped many people to write better fiction, but I doubt whether I taught anyone who had never attempted fiction how to write the stuff that we call by that name.)' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon The Monthly October 2022 25247542 2022 periodical issue 2022 pg. 28-32
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