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Issue Details: First known date: 2019... 2019 Creative Writing
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'When I arrived at the University of California at Santa Barbara to teach creative writing, I had no idea of how to go about it. I had my own experience of writing novels and stories. But how was that to be translated into teaching practice? I tentatively asked some of the staff there how they did it. ‘Oh, we were hoping you would be able to tell us,’ said Edgar Bowers. He was a poet whose most recent collection was called Living Together. That was the title of my first novel. I think we viewed each other with some suspicion about this coincidence. But he did offer me one piece of advice. ‘I tell them they can write anything they like, as long as it’s not science fiction or about death.’ After that I was plunged into it.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Wild about Books : Essays on Books and Writing Michael Wilding , Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing , 2019 17393108 2019 selected work essay

    'Wild About Books – essays on books and writing, about reading them and writing them, and publishing them and collecting them and preserving them in libraries. Essays about the shared experience of literature, the art and craft of writing, the pleasures of reading, the survival of five hundred years of print culture, together with reflections and suggestions on creative writing, on what to do, and how to do it, and on what I’ve done, and why I wrote this book and how I wrote that one, together with anecdotes from other writers’ experiences, from writers in person, and from the books they have written.'

    Source: Publisher's blurb.

    Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing , 2019
    pg. 66-71
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