Can Creative Writing Really Be Taught?: Resisting Lore in Creative Writing Pedagogy (10th anniversary edition)

Stephanie Vanderslice and Rebecca Manery

ISBN 10: 1474285058 / ISBN 13: 9781474285056

Published by Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Can Creative Writing Really Be Taught?: Resisting Lore in Creative Writing Pedagogy (10th anniversary edition)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1474285058
• ISBN 13: 9781474285056
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Revised and updated throughout, this 10th-anniversary edition of Can Creative Writing Really Be Taught? is a significantly expanded guide to key issues and practices in creative writing teaching today.

Challenging the myths of creative writing teaching, experienced and up-and-coming teachers explore what works in the classroom and workshop and what does not. Now brought up-to-date with new issues that have emerged with the explosion of creative writing courses in higher education, the new edition includes:

· Guides to and case studies of workshop practice
· Discussions on grading and the myth of “the easy A”
· Explorations of the relationship between reading and writing
· A new chapter on creative writing research
· A new chapter on games, fan-fiction and genre writing
· New chapters on identity and activism

About the Authors

Stephanie Vanderslice is Professor of Creative Writing and Director of the Arkansas Writer's MFA Workshop at the University of Central Arkansas, USA and is the Chairperson of the Creative Writing Studies Organization. Her column, The Geek's Guide to the Writing Life appears regularly in the Huffington Post. She publishes fiction, nonfiction and creative writing criticism including Can Creative Writing Really Be Taught?: Resisting Lore in Creative Writing Pedagogy, Teaching Creative Writing to Undergraduates: A Guide and Sourcebook Rethinking Creative Writing.

Rebecca Manery teaches creative and academic writing at the University of Michigan, USA. A published poet and non-fiction writer she is co-author (with Tonya Perry) of Supporting Students in a Time of Common Core Standards (6-8) (2011).