This paper will present the preliminary findings of our research project, Creative Writing
and the Enterprise University, aimed at identifying and analysing the implications of the
growth of creative writing programs in Australia on Australian literary culture. Through
in-depth interviews with key stakeholders (educators, students) from three Victorian
universities and those working in the industry, this research project explores the impact of
the new political economy of higher education on creative writing programs. In this
paper, we examine some of the specific issues for creative writing and creative writing
programs emerging from the research and the way they replicate broader arguments
taking place within higher education in the context of neoliberalism and the enterprise
university.
The 14th conference of the AAWP held in Hamilton, New Zealand in November 2009