1st Edition
Evolving Strategies for Writing Feedback on Creative Manuscripts A Multi-Genre Pedagogy Guide
Introduction
LEAH MCCORMACK
UNITED STATES
I: Poetry
1 The Forest to Come: Notes on a Pedagogy of Process
MICHAEL LEONG
UNITED STATES
2 “Notes From Sue”: Commenting on Poetry
SUE SINCLAIR
CANADA
3 Seeing the Feedback for the Words: Reflecting on Feedback for Neurodivergent Students
VANA MANASIADIS
NEW ZEALAND
4 Dowsing the Depths, Not Digging the Well
RUTH WILLIAMS
UNITED STATES
5 Practicalities, Physicalities: Alternative Ways of Giving Feedback (on Visual Poetry)
KIMBERLY CAMPANELLO
ENGLAND
II: Fiction
6 Rationale, a Conversation between Tarini Fernando and Heather Jessup
TARINI FERNANDO AND HEATHER JESSUP
CANADA
7 The Writing Workshop: Teaching Students to Rest Easy with Uncertainty
KAREN STEVENS
ENGLAND
8 Pattern Recognition and the Art of Literary Craft
RONE SHAVERS
UNITED STATES
9 Historical Fiction and the Modern Workshop
NAOMI WOOD
ENGLAND
10 There’s Always a Reason Why
CHIKA UNIGWE
UNITED STATES
III
Nonfiction 157
11 Asking Questions, Valuing Voices
CLAIRE HYNES
ENGLAND
12 Deepening and Complicating: The Creative Nonfiction Workshop 171
MICHAEL D. BURKE
UNITED STATES
13 Workshops Without Real-Time: Fostering Craft-Critical Feedback in Online, Asynchronous Creative Writing Courses
TARA PROPPER
UNITED STATES
14 A Comment on Comments
ROBERT ANTHONY SIEGEL
SINGAPORE / UNITED STATES
15 “Write What You Know”: International Students, Acculturation Stress, and Teaching Creative Nonfiction
KERRIE M. DAVIES
AUSTRALIA
IV: Appendices
Appendix A: A Scaffolded, Dramaturgical Approach
MARITA DACHSEL
CANADA
Appendix B: Writing Identity and Difference
JEANINE LEANE
AUSTRALIA
Biography
Leah McCormack is Associate Professor of English at the University of South Dakota, USA.
