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This book provides engaging insights into the evolution and scope of the critical study of creative writing. The wide range of chapters included reveals analyzes done as the field of Creative Writing Studies further emerged and grew across the world. The chapters in the book were originally published in the
New Writing journal.
List of contents
Foreword
Introduction: Speculative Learning in Creative Writing
1. The Resurrected Author: Creative Writers in 21st-century Higher Education
2. The Creative Writing Doctorate: Creative Trial or Academic Error?
3. The Value of Creative Writing Assignments in English Literature Courses
4. Responsive Critical Understanding: Towards a Creative Writing Treatise
5. Establishing a Metanarrative in Creative/Academic Writing: An Exercise to Help Students with Writing
6. Creative Writing: 40 Years, 400 Years, 4000 Years . . .
7. The Student Muse: Creative Ways of Teaching Talent
8. A Typology of Creative Writing
9. From Enjoyment to Critical Thinking: A Journey of Developing Creativity and Critical Awareness in Story Writing in a Melanesian Community
10. Creative Writing: The Human Event
11. Interactive Narrative Pedagogy as a Heuristic for Understanding Supervision in Practice-led Research
12. Several Faces of Creative Writing
13. Heidegger, Creativity, and what Poets do: On Living in a Silent Shack for Three Months and not Going Mad
14. Bookstores, a Celebration
15. On Learning, Teaching and the Pursuit of Creative Writing in Singapore and Hong Kong
16. The Danger of the Sanitary
17. A Shaggy Beast from a Baggy Monster
18. In Celebration of Names
19. 'Finding the Through-line': A Portrait of an Innovative Creative Writing Organisation
20. How Does Creative Writing Sound?
Conclusion: Possibility
About the author
Graeme Harper is Editor of
New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing. He is author of such books as
Critical Approaches to Creative Writing (2018) and
Creative Writing Analysis (2022) and, as Brooke Biaz, the novel
Releasing the Animals (2023), among many others.
Summary
This book provides engaging insights into the evolution and scope of the critical study of creative writing. The wide range of chapters included reveals analyzes done as the field of Creative Writing Studies further emerged and grew across the world. The chapters in the book were originally published in the New Writing journal.
