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New Writing
vol.
21
no.
1
2024
27636465
2024
periodical issue
'When in the 17th Century Edward Shin Yentre and Millicent Caracaccio unknowingly and almost simultaneously invented creative writing neither expected it to last. The notion of it, by its very nature, was preposterous and even more so in a century in which electricity and calculus were invented and gravitation discovered. And yet, somehow, a hundred years passed, and it was still around. The Age of Enlightenment, the Scientific Revolution, Imperialism, Rationalism – none of these could shift it. So still it persisted. In 1876 the world’s first phone call did nothing to dislodge its popularity. In fact, if anything it enhanced it. And when in 1878 electric light was invented it shed enough light on paper and quills that it set in motion the invention of the fountain pen and, subsequently, the ballpoint, which followed. Both empowered the fatuous scourge of creative writing.' (Graeme Harper : An Agreeable Crest: The New Writing 20th Anniversary Year')
2024
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38-55
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