Contributors
Introduction: On Teaching Creative Writing in Canada without Teaching “How to Make Love in a Canoe”
Darryl Whetter
Part I Workshopping the (Canadian) Workshop
1. Can’tLit: (Anglophone) Canada’s Anomalous Disinterest in Creative Writing Doctoral Programs
Darryl Whetter
2. The (Funding) Stories We Tell: Faculty Creative Writing as Nationally Funded University Research
Darryl Whetter
3. Can the Workshop Be Saved? Notes from a Writing-School Dropout—and Former Department Chair
David Leach
4. Origin Stories, Watersheds and Gendered Politics: On Launching a New Creative Writing MFA
Jeanette Lynes
5. Postcards from the Edge: On Launching Canada’s Most Recent MFA Creative Writing Program from a School of Journalism
Stephen Kimber
6. Why, and How, Literary Prizes Matter
Olga Stein
7. Supporting First-Time Workshop Leaders in Large Introductory Courses
Robert McGill
Part II The Canadian CW Playground: Writing-as-Knowing (in Canada and beyond)
8. Poetry as Play: Teaching Poetry to Not-Yet-Poets
Andy Weaver
9. A Writer in Art School: Fostering Interdisciplinary Experiences in Postsecondary Art & Design Education
Catherine Black
10. In Tranquillity: Writing through and beyond Ekphrasis
Stephanie Bolster
11. Listening Out and In
Clem Martini
12. Generous Writing: Teaching the Avant-Garde
Gregory Betts
Part III Letters Home
13. MFA vs. NYC vs. MBA
Timothy Taylor
14. From the Pool to the Page: What Coaching Swimming Taught Me about Teaching Creative Writing
Angie Abdou
15. The Climate Crisis in the Creative Writing Classroom
Catherine Bush
16. Shaggy Dog Queer Comedies, Handshake Deals and Speaking Back to Power:
An Interview with Multi-Genre, LBGTIQA+ Writer Prof. Natalie Meisner
Natalie Meisner with Darryl Whetter
Index
Biography
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).
