1st Edition

New Writing Explorations Researching Creative Writing

Edited By Graeme Harper Copyright 2025
174 Pages
by Routledge

174 Pages
by Routledge

174 Pages
by Routledge

This book , New Writing Explorations: Researching Creative Writing, investigates creative writing as an area of research, building from a recognition of its qualities as a creative human practice. It presents a critical examination of current methodologies and highlights many of the latest advancements in the field of creative writing studies. This book’s contributors examine writerly... Read more

Foreword

Dan Disney

 

Introduction: Prying with Intent: The Prose Poetics of Creative Writing Research

Graeme Harper

 

1. Performances in Contradiction: Facilitating a Neosophistic Creative Writing Workshop

Ben Ristow

 

2. Creative Writing: A Newtonian Thought

Graeme Harper

 

3. ‘Unconscionable Mystification’?: Rooms, Spaces and the Prose Poem

Paul Hetherington and Cassandra Atherton

 

4. Thoughts are creative writing

Graeme Harper

 

5. Screenwriting studies, screenwriting practice and the screenwriting manual

Craig Batty

 

6. Creative writing, as it happens: the case for unpredictability

Graeme Harper

 

7. The writer and meta-knowledge about writing: threshold concepts in creative writing

Janelle Adsit

 

8. Flight

Graeme Harper

 

9. Cognitive poetics and creative practice: beginning the conversation

Jeremy Scott

 

10. Structuring empathy

Graeme Harper

 

11. Creative work as scholarly work

Nigel Krauth and Peter Nash

 

12. Why our responses matter

Graeme Harper

 

13. Shifting the power dynamics in the Creative Writing workshop: assessing an instructor as

participant model

Donovan McAbee

 

14. Creative writing on other planets

Graeme Harper

 

15. Different ways of descending into the crypt: methodologies and methods for researching

creative writing

Francis Gilbert and Vicky Macleroy

 

16. Forms of illumination

Graeme Harper

 

17. Retooling workshops of empire: globalising creative writing with an edge        

Khem Aryal

 

18. New types of intelligence relevant to creative writers

Graeme Harper

 

19. English-language creative writing in a Chinese context: translation as a supplement

Xia Fang

 

20. An Agreeable Crest: The New Writing 20th Anniversary Year

Graeme Harper

 

Conclusion: Intentional Echoes

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) and the forthcoming Robots, among many others.