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Decolonising creative writing: It’s about not conforming to techniques of the western canon The universal rules of ‘good’ or ‘bad’ writing are turning out to be colonial relics. Pixabay I started teaching creative writing in 2017, and all this while I’ve been grappling with something that, until now, I couldn’t quite name. I felt it when I opened a textbook that purported to teach me how to teach the subject, or perused a sample syllabus lent to me by a colleague. There seemed to be a disconnect – between my experience of learning how to write fiction and what lay within these pages.

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