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For 21 years I have been working in creative writing classrooms in schools, colleges and universities, both in the United States and Canada; if I don’t think that creative writing can be taught, I’m either a charlatan or an idiot. Now it is quite likely that persons (perhaps even academics) exist who believe me to be either, or both, but I would here like to explain that the teacher — who showed me it could be taught was Dr F. M. Salter, for some time the head of the English Department at this university.
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Wiebe, R. (1986). Creative Writing: Can It Be Taught?. In: Demers, P. (eds) The Creating Word. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07954-4_8
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