Key Issues in Creative Writing

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-84769-846-9
Verlag: Multilingual Matters

Buch, Englisch, 182 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 279 g

Key Issues in Creative Writing explores a range of important issues that inform the practice and understanding of creative writing. The collection considers creative writing learning and teaching as well as creative writing research. Contributors target debates that arise because of the nature of creative writing. These experts – from the UK, USA and Australia – specifically examine creative writing as a subject in universities and colleges and discuss both the creative knowledge and the critical understanding informing the subject and its future. Finally, this volume suggests ways in which addressing current issues will produce significant disciplinary knowledge that will contribute to the success of creative writing in current and future academic environments.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Donnelly, Dianne

Harper, Graeme

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Schreiben und Publizieren, Kreatives Schreiben

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Dianne Donnelly and Graeme Harper: Key Issues and Global Perspectives in Creative Writing

Part I

Chapter 1: Dianne Donnelly: Reshaping Creative Writing: Power and Agency in the Academy

Chapter 2: Mimi Thebo: Hey, Babe, Take a Walk on the Wild Side—Creative Writing in Universities

Chapter 3: Graeme Harper: Creative Writing Habitats

Chapter 4: Steve Healey: Beyond the Literary: Why Creative Literacy Matters

Chapter 5: Katharine Haake: To Fill with Milk: Or, the Thing and Itself

Chapter 6: Graeme Harper: Research in Creative Writing

Chapter 7: Dianne Donnelly: Creative Writing Knowledge

Part II

Chapter 8: Stephanie Vanderslice: Teaching Toward the Future

Chapter 9: Indigo Perry: Holding on and Letting Go

Chapter 10: Program Design and the Making of Successful Programs

10.1 Nigel McLoughlin: Building a Better Elephant Machine: A Case Study in Creative Writing Program Design

10.2 Patrick Bizzaro: The Future of Graduate Studies in Creative Writing: Institutionalizing Literary Writing Conclusion: Dianne Donnelly and Graeme Harper: Investigating Key Issues in Creative Writing

Über Autor(innen)

Harper, Graeme
Graeme Harper is Professor of Creative Writing and Dean of The Honors College, Oakland University, USA. He has published numerous books on creative writing, as well as novels under the name Brooke Biaz. He is Chair of the Creative Writing Studies Organization and edits New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing (Routledge).

Donnelly, Dianne
Dr. Dianne Donnelly is the associate director of the CCCC-Award winning composition program at the University of South Florida. In addition to her interests in rhetoric & composition and writing program administration, she is a creative writer and craft critic who addresses the theory and pedagogy of creative writing. Her pedagogical works include Does the Writing Workshop Still Work? (2010), The Emergence of Creative Writing Studies as an Academic Discipline (2011), and Key Issues in Creative Writing (with Graeme Harper, 2012). She is a frequent presenter at the creative writing pedagogy forums at CCCC and AWP; reviewer for Pedagogy, TEXT, and multiple presses; senior creative writing editor for Writing Commons; and editorial board member for New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing.

Dianne Donnelly, PhD, is the author of Establishing Creative Writing Studies as an Academic Discipline (2011) and the editor of Does the Writing Workshop Still Work? (2010). She is a regular contributor to the theory and pedagogy of creative writing and a frequent presenter at CCCC and AWP on creative writing pedagogy. She is on the editorial board for New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing and Writing Commons, referees for the online peer-reviewed journal TEXT, and teaches writing at the University of South Florida.

Graeme Harper, DCA PhD, is Professor and Director of The Honors College at Oakland University, Michigan. He has held professorships in the UK, USA and Australia, is an honorary professor in the UK and the Editor-in-Chief of New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing. He recently also published On Creative Writing (2010), and is currently working on Creative Writing Challenges. A winner of the National Book Council Award for New Fiction (Aust.), and a Commonwealth Scholarship, he is Editor of the New Writing Viewpoints book series.