Toward an Inclusive Creative Writing

Janelle Adsit is Assistant Professor of Writing Practices at Humboldt State University, USA.

Introduction
Discussions of Diversity and Inclusion in Creative Writing
Threshold Concepts to Guide the Literary Writing Curriculum
Toward an Inclusive Creative Writing Pedagogy

1. Privileged Assumptions and Assumptions of Privilege
What the VIDA Count Tells about Teaching
Exclusionary Constructions of the Writer’s Life
Finding a Voice
The Lonely Writer
Leisure and Unalienated Labor
The Writer as Exceptional
Mapping Pedagogical Constructions of the Writer
Progressive Pedagogical Approaches
Humanist Pedagogical Approaches
Professionalizing Pedagogical Approaches
Auditioning Pedagogical Approaches
Experimental Pedagogical Approaches
Therapeutic Pedagogical Approaches
Populism and Elitism in Creative Writing
Exclusionary Assumptions about Writers and Writing

2. Marginalized Aesthetics
Policing Intention: Polemics against Polemics
Policing Taste: Ideologies of Craft
Policing Emotion: Scorn of Excess
The Diversity of the Textual Landscape

3. The Threshold Concepts in Creative Writing
Concept 1: Attention
Concept 2: Creativity
Concept 3: Authorship
Concept 4: Language
Concept 5: Genre
Concept 6: Craft
Concept 7: Community
Concept 8: Evaluation
Concept 9: Representation
Concept 10: Resistance
Concept 11: Theory
Concept 12: Revision
Threshold Concepts and Learning Outcomes

4. Toward an Inclusive Pedagogy
Starting Points
Reading
Workshop
Evaluation and Grading

Coda: Reimagining Creative Writing’s Institutional Practices

Appendix A – List of Craft Texts Surveyed in Chapters One and Two

Appendix B – Sample Syllabus

Notes
Index