Creative Writing Studies: Practice, Research and Pedagogy

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 study: 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.

Graeme Harper is Professor of Creative Writing and Dean of The Honors College, Oakland University, USA. He has published numerous books on creative writing, as well as novels under the name Brooke Biaz. He is Chair of the Creative Writing Studies Organization and edits New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing (Routledge).

Professor Jeri Kroll is currently Dean of Graduate Research at Flinders University. She established the Creative Writing Program and has published over 20 books for adults and young people. Past President of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs, she is on the boards of New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing and TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses. Recent books include Swamp Soup (2012, for children) and Workshopping the Heart: New and Selected Poems (2013). Among over 40 scholarly works, most recent are the co-edited Research Methods in Creative Writing (Palgrave Macmillan 2013) and ‘Creative Writing and Education’ in the Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Creative Writing. A staged reading of her verse novel, Vanishing Point, took place at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts ‘Page to Stage’ Festival (2011) and will be published in book form by Puncher and Wattman in 2014.