ABSTRACT
Creative writing, however, is in essence playful, not least in its use of language but more widely in its employing, touting and extending of creativity in writing. Significantly, creative writing is defined by the application of our imaginations and its composing and receiving is dependent on our imaginations. The nation also influences, if not entirely determines, the nature and style of creative writing education. This is evidenced in the varied histories of creative writing in schools, internationally, histories that have often been determined by how creative writing has been nationally viewed – for example, whether as fundamental to individual language learning or as peripheral to developing literacy. While the core techniques associated with the well-established creative writing genre (the novel, the poem, the stage play) might have been only partly influenced by the technological change, the access to information and readers or the audience has influenced all kinds of creative writing.
