Creative Writing Studies: Practice, Research and Pedagogy

by Graeme Harper (Editor), Dr. Jeri Kroll (Editor)

The chapters in this book range across all three areas of its subtitle practice, research and pedagogy – testifying to the integrated nature of creative writing as a university discipline. Writers from the USA, the UK and Australia concentrate on the most critical issues facing this popular, fast-developing and sometimes embattled area of practice-led research in creative writing; the nature of higher degrees; the place of critical/theoretical discourse in the discipline; the best teaching methods at undergraduate and postgraduate levels; and the challenge of creative writers who are also university teachers. These exciting essays, thus, chart creative writing’s evolution as a site of knowledge in the contemporary university.

Genres: Writing, Education

184 pages, Hardcover

First published December 10, 2007

Reviews

[Karen · Rating 4 out of 5]

As someone who teaches creative writing but has found the lack of theory behind the teaching of creative writing a bit discouraging, I was happy to find the New Writing Viewpoints series, which is described as "The overall aim of this series is to publish books which will ultimately inform teaching and research, but whose primary focus is on the analysis of creative writing practice and theory." This particular book, Creative Writing Studies: Practice, Research, and Pedagogy, offers a selection of short essays that explore research and pratical implications for the classroom. I enjoyed them all, and have to think a bit more about how I am incorporate some of the authors' ideas for my own classroom use. I'm also looking forward to reading other books in this series.