Read more
This stimulating edited collection focuses on the practice of revision across all creative writing genres, providing a guide to the modes and methods of drafting, revising and editing. Offering an overview of how creative writing is generated and improved, the chapters address questions of how creative writers revise, why editing is such a crucial part of the creative process and how understanding the theories underpinning revision can enhance writers' projects.
Innovative and thought-provoking, this book is ideal for undergraduate and postgraduate students of Creative Writing, along with all creative writers looking to hone and polish their craft.
List of contents
About the author
Michael Kardos is the Pushcart Prize-winning author of the novel The Three-Day Affair and the story collection One Last Good Time. Originally from the Jersey Shore, he currently lives in Starkville, Mississippi, where he teaches creative writing.Kim Wiltshire is a playwright and fiction writer, and is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Edge Hill University, UK.Professor Craig Batty is Head of Creative Writing at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia.Nigel McLoughlin is Professor of Creativity and Poetics at the University of Gloucestershire, UK.Graeme Harper is Professor of Creative Writing and Dean of The Honors College at Oakland University, Michigan, USA. He is Editor of the Approaches to Writing Series at Bloomsbury, Editor of the New Writing journal and is Chair of the Creative Writing Studies Organization (CWSO) in the USA. He was also inaugural Chair of HE at the UK's National Association of Writers in Education (NAWE) and is an award-winning fiction writer, Professor and Honorary Professor.Jeri Kroll is Emeritus Professor of English and Creative Writing at Flinders University, South Australia.
Summary
This stimulating edited collection focuses on the practice of revision across all creative writing genres, providing a guide to the modes and methods of drafting, revising and editing. Offering an overview of how creative writing is generated and improved, the chapters address questions of how creative writers revise, why editing is such a crucial part of the creative process and how understanding the theories underpinning revision can enhance writers' projects.
Innovative and thought-provoking, this book is ideal for undergraduate and postgraduate students of creative writing, along with all creative writers looking to hone and polish their craft.
Foreword
This edited collection focuses on the practice of revision across all creative writing genres, providing a guide to the modes and methods of drafting and editing. It offers an overview of the theories and practices grounding how creative and critical texts are generated and improved.
