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

by Vanderslice, Stephanie; Manery, Rebecca

• ISBN13: 9781474285049
• ISBN10: 147428504X
• Edition: 10th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2017-07-13
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

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

Can Creative Writing Really Be Taught? is supported by a companion website at www.bloomsbury.com, including extensive links to online resources, teaching case studies and lesson plans.

Author Biography

Stephanie Vanderslice is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Central Arkansas, USA and Director of the Arkansas Writer's MFA Workshop. An award-winning teacher, she is the co-manager of the Creative Writing Pedagogy Facebook Group (which numbers over 4,000 members) and her column 'The Geek's Guide to the Writing Life' appears regularly on The Huffington Post.

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).

Table of Contents

Introduction
Part 1: Can It Really Be Taught?
1. Figuring the Future: Lore in Creative Writing Reconsidered (Tim Mayers, Millersville University, USA)
2. Against Reading Reconsidered (Katherine Haake, California State University Northridge, USA)
3. Charming Tyrants and Faceless Facilitators: The Lore of Teaching Identities in Creative Writing Reconsidered (Ann Cain, Indiana University Purdue, Fort Wayne, USA)
4. Lore, Pedagogy and the Antioch-LA MFA Postgraduate Teaching Certificate (Steve Heller and Amy Sage Webb, Antioch University, USA)
5. Both Sides of the Desk: Experienceing Creative Writing Lore as a Student and as a Professor Revisited (Priscilla Uppal, York University, Canada)
6. Creative Writing, Caring and the "Easy A": Rethinking the Role of Self-Esteem in Creative Writing Pedagogy (Anna Leahy, Chapman University, USA)
7. Putting Wings on the Invisible: Voice, Authorship and the Authentic Self (Patrick Bizzaro, Indiana University, USA)
8. Box Office Poison: The Influence of Writers in Films on Writers (Stephen Armstrong, Dixie State University St. George, USA)
Part 2: Resisting Lore for the Future: New Voices, New Challenges
9. The Traces of Certain Collisions: Contemporary Writing and Old Tropes (Jen Webb, University of Canberra, Australia)
10. A Creative Writing Monster Movie: "Diminishing Returns versus the Text" (Graeme Harper, Oakland University, USA)
11. Lore 2.0: Creative Writing as History (Phil Sandick, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
12. Didactic Fears of Didacticism in Creative Writing: Considering Literatures of Activism and Critique (Janelle Adsit, Humboldt State University, USA)
13. Investigating Creative Writing: Obstacles to Empirical Research (Greg Light, Northwestern University, USA)
14. "We Don't Need No Creative Writing Here" (Tonya Hegemin, Medgar Evers College, City University of New York, USA)
15. Genre Fiction and Games and Fan Fiction! Oh My!: Collaborative Creative Writing in Pre-Existing Fictional Worlds (Trent Hergenrader, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)
16. Myths, Mirrors and Metaphors: The Education of the Creative Writing Teacher (Rebecca Manery, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, USA)
17. "A Line of Print, A Stroke of Paint": Visual Rhetorical Analysis of Creative Writing Programs (Ben Ristow, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, USA)
18. It's My Story and I'll Revise if I Want To: Rethinking Authorship Through Genre-Bending and Collaborative Practice (Joseph Rein, University of Wisconsin, River Falls, USA)
Bibliography
Index