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Teaching creative writing a ‘waste of time’

Creative writing professor and acclaimed writer Hanif Kureishi says such courses are a “waste of time”. He says students can’t be taught how to tell a story. But is he right? Adam Foulds is a novelist who took a creative writing course, Hannah J Parkinson is a journalist and poet who dropped out of a creative writing course.

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