1st Edition

New Writing Scholarship Studying Creative Writing

Edited By Graeme Harper Copyright 2025
182 Pages
by Routledge

182 Pages
by Routledge

182 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

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.