Responding to Creative Writing

· Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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Creative writing is a responsive human activity. We use it to respond to the world, to our feelings, to ideas, to observations, to other people, to historical and cultural events, and to the wonders created in our imaginations. This book shows how we go about doing this responding. Contributors discuss practice-led research in creative writing. They look at the ways a writer can use language or employ genre and consider how we each define themes and subjects and use writing techniques to explore to these themes and subjects. In examining creative writing teaching, the contributions gathered here suggest that teaching can be more responsive, more engaged with student interests, and more successful. This book shows that exploring creative writing, through a variety of means, can produce inventive, energetic results that can improve our own creative writing, as well as substantially contribute to our critical understanding of creative writing.

About the author

Graeme Harper is an award-winning fiction writer and editor of New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing. The Chair of the Creative Writing Studies Organization in the USA, he was the inaugural Chair of Higher Education at the National Association of Writers in Education, UK, from 2008 to 2011. For three years, he was an assessor at the European Commission, DGX, and, for twelve years, at the Arts and Humanities Research Council. He is founder and director of the Great Writing International Creative Writing Conference, now in its 23rd year. A graduate of the creative writing PhD program at the University of East Anglia, UK, he also holds the first doctorate in creative writing awarded in Australia. He reviews creative writing research for organizations and institutions throughout the world, and is currently Professor of Creative Writing and Dean of The Honors College at Oakland University, USA. His most recent novel is The Japanese Cook.

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