Evolving Strategies for Writing Feedback on Creative Manuscripts - A Multi-Genre Pedagogy Guide

A practical and essential resource for instructors of undergraduate and graduate creative writing courses, this book provides instructors actionable strategies for providing feedback to creative writing students, using sample student work and professors' actual written comments as models for study.

List of contents

Introduction I. POETRY 1. The Forest to Come: Notes on a Pedagogy of Process 2. "Notes from Sue": Commenting on Poetry 3. Seeing the Feedback for the Words: Reflecting on Feedback for Neurodivergent Students 4. Dowsing the Depths, Not Digging the Well 5. Practicalities, Physicalities: Alternative Ways of Giving Feedback (on Visual Poetry) II. FICTION 6. Rationale, in Conversation between Tarini Fernando and Heather Jessup 7. The Writing Workshop: Teaching Students to Rest Easy with Uncertainty 8. Pattern Recognition and the Art of Literary Craft 9. Historical Fiction and the Modern Workshop 10. There's Always a Reason Why III. NONFICTION 11. Asking Questions, Valuing Voices 12. Deepening and Complicating: The Creative Nonfiction Workshop 13. Workshops Without Real-Time: Fostering Craft-Critical Feedback in Online, Asynchronous Creative Writing Courses 14. A Comment on Comments 15. "Write What You Know": International Students, Acculturation Stress and Teaching Creative Nonfiction IV. APPENDICES Appendix A: A Scaffolded, Dramaturgical Approach Appendix B: Writing Identity and Difference

About the author

Leah McCormack is Associate Professor of English at the University of South Dakota, USA.

Product details

• Authors: Leah McCormack
• Assisted by: Leah McCormack (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 24.11.2025
• EAN: 9781032460734
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3246073-4
• No. of pages: 294
• Series: Routledge Studies in Creative Writing
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Training, job, career; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Literature: general, reference works; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literary studies: general, Literary theory, Creative writing & creative writing guides, Creative writing and creative writing guides, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Writing / General