Abstract
The aim of this article is reconstructing the historical narrative of Creative Writing (CW) course at University of East Anglia (UEA). UEA at Norwich was one of new universities found-ed in Britain in the 1960s to response to the increasing need for higher education. Angus Wil-son and Malcolm Bradbury were both professors of literature there, and in 1970 they found the first CW course for postgraduates in the UK. CW was established as an academic subject in the US from the early 20th century, so not a few UK academics assumed skeptical attitudes for this cultural intervention. They thought writing couldn’t or shouldn’t be taught. Now CW course at UEA is famous for its graduates and Writers Centre Norwich leads the UNESCO City of Literature. This article examines how CW program was accepted as an aca-demic subject or discipline and why this specific university was suitable for new educational program from historical view. Reconstructed narrative of beginning story provides several ways of looking at the characteristic of university as educational system.
