Rethinking Creative Writing

2. Rethinking Creative Writing by Stephanie Vanderslice

3. “Thoroughly researched, beautifully written, and [an] altogether important book” • Erika Dreifusin Practicing Writing

4. “A brave, serious, passionate and entertaining book” • Dr Steve May, Head of Department of Creative Writing, Bath Spa University

5. 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

6. 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.

7. Key terms Creative writing Literacy Pedagogy Programs Reflective Reform Teaching Visionary Workshop

8. Contents Foreword by Dr Steve May Chapter One: Creative Writing in Higher Education: Reflection, Innovation, Accountability Notes from the Field: Storming the Garret Chapter Two: Undergraduate Creative Writing Programs Notes from the Field: Grasping Ariadne’s Thread: Wendy Bishop’s Stories and My Own Chapter Three: Graduate Creative Writing Programs: Creative Writing Comes of Age Notes from the Field: Once More to the Workshop: A Myth Caught in Time Chapter Four: Workshopping the Workshop Notes from the Field: A Place to Start Chapter Five: Creative Writing Programs in the World Afterword: Looking Inward and Outward Appendix

9. 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).

10. Creative Writing Studies:forthcoming titles in the series Teaching creative writing by Elaine Walker (ed.) Creative writing: writers on writing by AmalChatterjee (ed.) Researching creative writing by Jen Webb Studying creative writing by Sharon Norris (ed.)

11. Bibliographical data Publication date: 2012 (print), 2011 (e-book) Imprint: Creative Writing Studies Place 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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16. The imprint: Creative Writing Studies The publisher: The Professional and Higher Partnership Ltd