Creative Writing Innovations - Breaking Boundaries in the Classroom

When teachers experiment, students benefit. When students gain confidence to pursue their own literary experiments, creative writing can become a life-changing experience.With chapters written by experienced teachers and classroom innovators, builds on these principles to uncover the true potential of the creative writing classroom. Rooted in classroom experience, this book takes teaching beyond the traditional workshop model to explore topics such as multi-media genres, collaborative writing and field-based work, as well as issues of identity. Taken together, this is an essential guide for teachers of creative writing at all levels from the authors and editors of Creative Writing in the Digital Age.

About the author

Michael Dean Clark is Associate Professor of Writing at Azusa Pacific University, USA. Formerly an award-winning journalist, his fiction and non-fiction work has appeared in Pleiades, Fast Forward, Relief, and a number of other periodicals.Trent Hergenrader is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the Rochester Institute of Technology, USA. His fiction writing has appeared in such places as Fantasy & Science Fiction, The Mammoth Book of Dieselpunk, and Best Horror of the Year #1. He is co-editor of Creative Writing in the Digital Age (Bloomsbury, 2015) and Creative Writing Innovations (Bloomsbury, 2017).Joseph Rein is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin, River Falls, USA. He is the editor of Dispatches from the Classroom and his fiction, poetry and essays have appeared in such publications as The Pinch Literary Magazine, Iron Horse Literary Review, and Ruminate Magazine. He is also an award-winning short-film screenwriter.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Dean Clark, Michael Dean (Associate Professor Clark, Michael Dean Hergenrader Clark, Trent Hergenrader, Jos Rein
• Assisted by: Dr Michael Dean (Associate Professor Clark (Editor), Michael Dean Clark (Editor), Michael Dean (Associate Professor Clark (Editor), Dr Trent (Rochester Institute of Technology Hergenrader (Editor), Trent Hergenrader (Editor), Trent (Rochester Institute of Technology Hergenrader (Editor), Joseph Rein (Editor), Joseph (University of Wisconsin Rein (Editor), Rein Joseph (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2017
• EAN: 9781474297172
• ISBN: 978-1-4742-9717-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Training, job, career; Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; English, Teaching of a specific subject, Educational: English language: reading & writing skills, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / General