1st Edition
New Writing Scholarship Studying Creative Writing
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 book explores investigative methods and pedagogical thinking that has excitingly shaped and is shaping the critical and practice-led study of creative writing, particularly in higher education.
This volume is relevant for both students and scholars interested in creative writing, particularly those who are interested in creative writing teaching and learning. The chapters in the book were originally published as articles and editorials in the New Writing journal and are accompanied by a new Introduction and Conclusion and a Foreword by well-known Creative Writing Studies scholar Dianne Donnelly.
Foreword
Dianne Donnelly
Introduction: Speculative Learning in Creative Writing
Graeme Harper
1. The Resurrected Author: Creative Writers in 21st-century Higher Education
Jeri Kroll
2. The Creative Writing Doctorate: Creative Trial or Academic Error?
Graeme Harper
3. The Value of Creative Writing Assignments in English Literature Courses
Veronica J. Austen
4. Responsive Critical Understanding: Towards a Creative Writing Treatise
Graeme Harper
5. Establishing a Metanarrative in Creative/Academic Writing: An Exercise to Help Students with Writing
Ian Pople and Livi Michael
6. Creative Writing: 40 Years, 400 Years, 4000 Years . . .
Graeme Harper
7. The Student Muse: Creative Ways of Teaching Talent
Alison Habens
8. A Typology of Creative Writing
Graeme Harper
9. From Enjoyment to Critical Thinking: A Journey of Developing Creativity and Critical Awareness in Story Writing in a Melanesian Community
Yasuko Nagai
10. Creative Writing: The Human Event
Graeme Harper
11. Interactive Narrative Pedagogy as a Heuristic for Understanding Supervision in Practice-led Research
Dominique Hecq
12. Several Faces of Creative Writing
Graeme Harper
13. Heidegger, Creativity, and what Poets do: On Living in a Silent Shack for Three Months and not Going Mad
Dan Disney
14. Bookstores, a Celebration
Graeme Harper
15. On Learning, Teaching and the Pursuit of Creative Writing in Singapore and Hong Kong
Eddie Tay and Eva Leung
16. The Danger of the Sanitary
Graeme Harper
17. A Shaggy Beast from a Baggy Monster
Eric Bennett
18. In Celebration of Names
Graeme Harper
19. ‘Finding the Through-line’: A Portrait of an Innovative Creative Writing Organisation
Rebecca Givens Rolland
20. How Does Creative Writing Sound?
Graeme Harper
Conclusion: Possibility
Graeme Harper
Biography
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.
