New Writing Scholarship: Studying Creative Writing

This book provides engaging insights into the evolution and scope of the critical study of creative writing. The wide range of chapters included reveals analyzes done as the field of Creative Writing Studies further emerged and grew across the world. The book explores investigative methods and pedagogical thinking that has excitingly shaped and is shaping the critical and practice-led study of creative writing, particularly in higher education.

This volume is relevant for both students and scholars interested in creative writing, particularly those who are interested in creative writing teaching and learning. The chapters in the book were originally published as articles and editorials in the New Writing journal and are accompanied by a new Introduction and Conclusion and a Foreword by well-known Creative Writing Studies scholar Dianne Donnelly.

Graeme Harper is Editor of New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing. He is author of such books as Critical Approaches to Creative Writing (2018) and Creative Writing Analysis (2022) and, as Brooke Biaz, the novel Releasing the Animals (2023), among many others.