Creative Writing Practice

Debra Adelaide is the author or editor of seventeen books, including novels, short fiction, and academic titles; she taught creative writing for twenty years until 2020, and is now an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. Sarah Attfield is a poet and lecturer in creative writing at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia, where she coordinates the undergraduate program; she is also co-editor of the Journal of Working-Class Studies.

PART ONE.- THEORETICAL CHALLENGES: WORKING IT OUT.- CHAPTER 1 Debra Adelaide and Sarah Attfield - Introduction.- CHAPTER 2: Sarah Attfield - The Ethics of Working-Class Realism in Poetry.- CHAPTER 3:Sunil Badami - The Golden Rules  [TO COME].- CHAPTER 4: Craig Batty - Screenwriting Beyond the Paradigms: creativethinking and script development   [TO COME].- CHAPTER 5: Claire Corbett - Everything You Can Imagine is Real: worldbuilding, the donnée and the magic of writing.- CHAPTER 6: Margot Nash - Adaptation: essence and originality and radical transformation .- PART TWO PRACTICAL CHALLENGES: STARTING, STOPPING    AND FAILING.- CHAPTER 7:Delia Falconer - The Writer's Notebook.- CHAPTER 8: Mark Rossiter - Prompting Creativity: revisiting Aristotle's advice on plot and character.- CHAPTER 9: Andrew Pippos - Trading hours: time, order, and narration in Lucky's .- CHAPTER 10: Gregory Ferris - Writing Without Frames.- CHAPTER 11: Debra Adelaide - The Corrections: succeeding at failure in the creative process.- PART THREE  CONSOLIDATING THE PROCESS: SUCCESS AND RESILIENCE.- CHAPTER 12: Dave Drayton - Counting Coco Pops: on constraint and creativity.- CHAPTER 13: Sue Joseph - When Your Subjects Do Not Agree [DRAFT ONLY].- CHAPTER 14: Liz Giuffre - Critical Distance: creative writing as a critic-fan.- CHAPTER 15: Tom Lee - Art, Design and Communicating the Story: the cover of Coach Fitz.- CHAPTER 16: Mark Isaacs - Behrouz Boochani: writing as resilience and resistance.