Teaching Creative Writing

RACHEL BLAU DUPLESSIS Professor at Temple University, USA MARY CANTRELL Associate Professor of English, Tulsa Community College, USA JON COOK Professor of Literature, University of East Anglia, UK STEVEN EARNSHAW Professor and Head of English, Sheffield Hallam University, UK MAUREEN FREELY Senior Lecturer, University of Warwick, UK KATHARINE HAAKE Professor and Chair of the Creative Writing programme, California State University, USA GRAEME HARPER Professor of Creative Writing and Director of Research (College of Arts and Humanities), Bangor University, UK GARY HAWKINS Director of the Undergraduate Writing Program and Director of First-Year Seminars, Warren Wilson College, USA ROBIN HEMLEY Director of the Nonfiction Writing Program, University of Iowa, USA DEWITT HENRY Professor of Writing, Literature, and Publishing, Emerson College, USA KIM LASKY Independent researcher, UK ANNA LEAHY Lecturer, Chapman University, USA STEVE MAY Head of Department, Creative Studies, Bath Spa University, UK GRAHAM MORT Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, Lancaster University, UK JOSEPH MOXLEY Professor of English, University of South Florida, USA DAVID MYERS Lecturer in English, Texas A&M University, USA JOHN NIEVES Lecturer, University of South Florida, USA STEPHAN O'CONNOR Lecturer, Columbia University, USA JENA OSMAN Associate Professor of English, Temple University, USA HANS OSTROM Dolliver NEH Professor of English, University of Puget Sound, USA ROB POPE Professor of English, Oxford Brookes University, UK ROBERT SHEPPARD Professor of Poetry and Poetics, Edge Hill University, UK MICHAEL SYMMONS ROBERTS Professor, Manchester Metropolitan's Writing School, UK STEPHANIE VANDERSLICE Associate Professor of Writing, University of Central Arkansas, USA MICHELENE WANDOR Lecturer, University of Lancaster, UK

Notes on Contributors Introduction; H.Beck PART I: HISTORY A Short History of Creative Writing in British Universities; G.Harper A History of Creative Writing in America; D.Henry On the Reform of Creative Writing; D.Myers PART II: WORKSHOPS Creative Writing as Creative Reading in the Poetry Workshop; R.B.Du Plessis & J.Osman The Irrational Element in the Undergraduate Poetry Workshop: Beyond Craft; G.Hawkins The Creative Writing Workshop – A Survival Kit; M.Wandor PART III: UNDERGRADUATE Undergraduate Creative Writing Provision in the UK: Origins, Trends, and Student Views; S.May Undergraduate Creative Writing in the USA: Buying in Isn't Selling Out; A.Leahy Hidden Purposes of Undergraduate Creative Writing: Power, Self, and Knowledge; H.Ostrom No Factories, Please – We're Writers; M.Freely PART IV: POSTGRADUATE Teaching Creative Writing at Postgraduate Levels: the Sheffield Hallam Experience; S.Earnshaw Creative Writing and Ph.D Research; J.Cook A Critique of Postgraduate Workshops and a Case for Low Residency MFAs; R.Hemley PART V: REFLECTIVE ACTIVITIES Reflections on Reflection: Supplementary Discourses in Creative Writing Teaching in the UK; R.Sheppard The Lynchpin in the Workshop: Student Critique and Reflection; S.Vanderslice From Wales to Vermont – A Round Trip – Creative Writing in the USA and UK; T.Curtis PART VI: CRITICAL THEORY Thinking Systematically About What We Do; K.Haake Re…creation, Critique, and Catalysis: Critical-Creative Rewriting in Theory and Practice; R.Pope Couplings, Matings, Hybridisations: What Writers Can Gain from Critical Theory; K.Lasky PART VI: ASSESSMENT Assessment of Poetry in Higher Education: What Are the Limits?; M.S.Robert Assessment as Empowerment: Grading Entry-Level Creative Writing Students; M.Cantrell Ranking Student Writing as Bad Pedagogy and a Bogus Pretense of Objectivity; S.O'Connor PART VIII: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY New Tools for Timeless Work: Technological Advances in Creative Writing Pedagogy; J.A.Nieves& J.Moxley Lancaster University's Creative Writing MA by Distance Learning; G.Mort Further Reading Index