Cirrus@Austlit

This paper reports on one strand of a research project conducted with prominenet writers who are also English teachers from around Australia. It asks what are the conditions that led these writers to come to establish and promote an enabling pedagogy for writing in their classes. It incorporates a consideration of questions of aesthetics and ethics in writing and English and concludes with some suggestions of writing pedagogies and understadings emerging from this research that might be taken up and incorporated into English classes in schools.