Teaching Creative Writing in Canada

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-61410-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 517 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Creative Writing

Teaching Creative Writing in Canada maps the landscape of Creative Writing programmes across Canada. Canada’s position, both culturally and physically, as a midpoint between the two major Anglophone influences on Creative Writing pedagogy—the UK and the USA—makes it a unique and relevant vantage for the study of contemporary Creative Writing pedagogy.

Showcasing writer-professors from Canada’s major Creative Writing programmes, the collection considers the climate-crisis, contemporary workshop scepticism, curriculum design, programme management, prize culture, grants and interdisciplinarity. Each chapter concludes with field-tested writing advice from many of Canada’s most influential professors of fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction and drama.

This authoritative volume offers an important national perspective on contemporary and timeless issues in Creative Writing pedagogy and their varied treatment in Canada. It will be of valuable to other creative teachers and practitioners, those with an interest in teaching and learning a creative art and anyone working on cultural and educational landscapes.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Adult education, and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Whetter, Darryl

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Schreiben und Publizieren, Kreatives Schreiben

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: On Teaching Creative Writing in Canada without Teaching “How to Make Love in a Canoe”

Part I Workshopping the (Canadian) Workshop

1. Can’tLit: (Anglophone) Canada’s Anomalous Disinterest in Creative Writing Doctoral Programs

2. The (Funding) Stories We Tell: Faculty Creative Writing as Nationally Funded University Research

3. Can the Workshop Be Saved? Notes from a Writing-School Dropout—and Former Department Chair

4. Origin Stories, Watersheds and Gendered Politics: On Launching a New Creative Writing MFA

5. Postcards from the Edge: On Launching Canada’s Most Recent MFA Creative Writing Program from a School of Journalism

6. Why, and How, Literary Prizes Matter

7. Supporting First-Time Workshop Leaders in Large Introductory Courses

Part II The Canadian CW Playground: Writing-as-Knowing (in Canada and beyond)

8. Poetry as Play: Teaching Poetry to Not-Yet-Poets

9. A Writer in Art School: Fostering Interdisciplinary Experiences in Postsecondary Art & Design Education

10. In Tranquillity: Writing through and beyond Ekphrasis

11. Listening Out and In

12. Generous Writing: Teaching the Avant-Garde

Part III Letters Home

13. MFA vs. NYC vs. MBA

14. From the Pool to the Page: What Coaching Swimming Taught Me about Teaching Creative Writing

15. The Climate Crisis in the Creative Writing Classroom

16. Shaggy Dog Queer Comedies, Handshake Deals and Speaking Back to Power: An Interview with Multi-Genre, LBGTIQA+ Writer Prof. Natalie Meisner

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Darryl Whetter is Professor of English Literature and Creative Writing at Université Sainte-Anne, Canada. He is the author of four books of fiction and three poetry collections, including the climate-crisis novel Our Sands (2020). He is also the editor of The Best Asian Short Stories 2022 (2023) and Teaching Creative Writing in Asia (2021).