Teaching Cultural Dexterity in Creative Writing

Micah McCrary is author of Island in the City (University of Nebraska Press), a memoir-in-essays. His work also appears in the Journal of Creative Writing Studies, Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, and Essay Daily, among other publications. A contributing editor at Assay, Dr. McCrary lives in New York on Haudenosaunee homelands, where he researches global health humanities and teaches courses in writing studies, creative nonfiction, and the health humanities at Syracuse University. He additionally serves as a mentor-teacher and low-residency faculty in Wilkes University's Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing.

Beyond Belonging: An Introduction


Chapter 1: Difficult Dialogues: Toward a Trauma-Informed Creative Writing Workshop
Chapter 2: Writing Lives at the Roundtable: Toward Teaching Students-as-Authors
Chapter 3: Why Bother in English? On Creative Writing’s Translingual Potential
Chapter 4: Before & Beyond Genre: Critically Considering Craft in the Nonfiction Classroom
Chapter 5: Beyond Genesis: A Transcultural Exigency for Research in Creative Writing
Chapter 6: Toward Critical Concepts in the Nonfiction Classroom: Some Reflection on Course Designs
Chapter 7: Where We’ve Been, Where We’re Going: Considerations and Continuations

Appendix A: Sample Syllabus – Introduction to Creative Nonfiction
Appendix B: Sample Schedule – Introduction to Creative Nonfiction
Appendix C: Sample Trajectory – Introduction to Creative Nonfiction
Appendix D: Sample Syllabus – Studies in Creative Nonfiction
Appendix E: Sample Schedule – Studies in Creative Nonfiction
Appendix F: Sample Trajectory – Studies in Creative Nonfiction
Appendix G: Sample Project – Flash Nonfiction
Appendix H: Sample Project – Researched Nonfiction or Literary Translation
Appendix I: Sample Project – Identity Notebook
Appendix J: Sample Project – Revision for Targeted Publication + Exam Questions