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Message: <blockquote data-quote="arwink" data-source="post: 2242529" data-attributes="member: 2292">Writing in Australia, as it currently exists, is largely focused on creative writing with some time devoted to the realities of working as a freelancer or professional writer (that is, training in technical writing and touching on areas such as journalism and finding work).  The buzzword in favor with the faculties at the moment is the notion of the professional "portfolio writer" that moves easily between the two.  The theory is partially literaterary theory and partially practiced based - studying texts from a writers perspective and learning how it works.My areas largely tend to be poetry, scriptwriting and radical narrative (which, strangely, includes a lot of stuff about gaming and writing for computers), and my initial degree included a lot fo film and TV journalism in addition to studying novels.  It covers a lot of ground and they don't really know where I fit in, so I usually get thrown to the wolves every semester when they need someone to fill spaces in the teaching team <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>