rethinking creative writing
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Rethinking Creative Writing. by Stephanie Vanderslice. “ Thoroughly researched, beautifully written, and [an] altogether important book ” Erika Dreifus i n Practicing Writing. “A brave, serious, passionate and entertaining book” - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Rethinking Creative Writing
by
Stephanie Vanderslice
“ Thoroughly researched, beautifully written, and [an] altogether important book”- Erika Dreifus in Practicing Writing
“A brave, serious, passionate and entertaining book”- Dr Steve May, Head of Department
of Creative Writing, Bath Spa University
Abstract
Creative writing as a discipline is a victim of its own success. The discipline needs now to demythogize and revitalize itself. Undergraduate and graduate programs need to be further differentiated. Programs over-reliant on the traditional creative writing workshop, with its focus on craft and on building community, are ill equipped to prepare students for the new realities of the creative economy
Programs need not only to improve the workshop experience of students, but also employ a more diverse, outward-looking, outcomes-oriented pedagogy and to make a more direct contribution to the development of a literate society. Much can be learnt from good practice - including distinctive and visionary programs - developed on both sides of the Atlantic and in Australia.
Key terms
Creative writing
Literacy
Pedagogy
Programs
Reflective
Reform
Teaching
Visionary
Workshop
ContentsForeword by Dr Steve May Chapter One: Creative Writing in Higher Education: Reflection, Innovation, AccountabilityNotes from the Field: Storming the Garret Chapter Two: Undergraduate Creative Writing ProgramsNotes from the Field: Grasping Ariadne’s Thread: Wendy Bishop’s Stories and My Own Chapter Three: Graduate Creative Writing Programs: Creative Writing Comes of AgeNotes from the Field: Once More to the Workshop: A Myth Caught in Time Chapter Four: Workshopping the WorkshopNotes from the Field: A Place to Start Chapter Five: Creative Writing Programs in the WorldAfterword: Looking Inward and Outward Appendix
Stephanie Vanderslice
Associate Professor of Writing, University of Central Arkansas and co-editor of Can It Really Be Taught?: Resisting Lore in Creative Writing Pedagogy (Heinemann).
Creative Writing Studies:forthcoming titles in the series
Teaching creative writing by Elaine Walker (ed.)
Creative writing: writers on writing by Amal Chatterjee (ed.)
Researching creative writing by Jen Webb
Studying creative writing by Sharon Norris (ed.)
Bibliographical dataPublication date: 2012
(print), 2011 (e-book)Imprint: Creative
Writing StudiesPlace of publication:
Ely (UK)Classification: Dewey
no. 808; BISAC subject code LAN005000; BIC subject category CBV
ISBNs:• ePub edition: 978-
1-907076-10-7 • PDF edition: 978-1-
907076-18-3 • Hardback: 978-1-
907076-13-8• Softback: 978-1-
907076-31-2
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