Creative Writing Curiosity (Volume 1)

Creative Writing Curiosity: Ten Essays on the Curious and Writerly is a lively collection examining how curiosity informs, shapes, deepens and empowers creative writing. Across ten varied essays the collection explores curiosity as stimulus, as guide, as teacher, companion or provocateur. Sometimes initiating, sometimes encouraging deeper thinking and greater imagining, and often the impetus, curiosity is shown as innate and routinely engaged with uncertainty. It is from our desire to know, the questioning that our curiosity entails, that creative writing emerges. Ultimately, it is shown that curiosity is manifest not only in what we write creatively but in how we go about writing it.

GRAEME HARPER is Editor of​New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing (Routledge) ​and author of such books as The Creative Writing Compass (2024), The Desire to Write (2019) and Critical Approaches to Creative Writing (2018), among a range of other works. His latest work of fiction, writing as Brooke Biaz, is Robots and Other People (Parlor, 2026). He is Professor of Creative Writing and Dean of The Honors College at Oakland University​.