Companion to Creative Writing

The EditorGraeme Harper is a Professor of Creative Writing and Dean of The Honors College at Oakland University, Michigan. He has also been a Professor and Honorary Professor of Creative Writing in the UK and in Australia. His recent publications include Inside Creative Writing: Interviews with Contemporary Writers (2012) and On Creative Writing (2010). Writing as Brooke Biaz, his works include The Invention of Dying (2013) and Small Maps of the World (2006). Harper is also Editor of New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing.

• Notes on Contributors ixForeword by Sir Andrew Motion xiiiIntroduction 1Graeme HarperPart I Creative Writing 71 The Architecture of Story 9Lorraine M. López2 Writing Creative Nonfi ction 24Bronwyn T. Williams3 Writing Poetry 40Nigel McLoughlin4 Writing for Children and Young Adults 56Kathleen Ahrens5 Write on! Practical Strategies for Developing Playwriting 71Peter Billingham6 Writing for Sound/Radio 86Steve May7 Writing the Screenplay 98Craig Batty8 New Media Writing 115Carolyn Handler Miller9 How to Make a Pocket Watch: The British Ph.D. in Creative Writing 129Simon Holloway10 Creative Writing and the Other Arts 144Harriet Edwards and Julia LockheartPart II The Creative Writer’s Profession 16111 Agents, Publishers, and Booksellers: A Historical Perspective 163John Feather12 The Changing Role of the Editor: Editors Past, Present, and Future 179Frania Hall13 Translation as Creative Writing 195Manuela Perteghella14 Creative Writing and “the lash of criticism” 213Steven Earnshaw15 But What’s Really at Stake for the Barbarian Warrior? Developing a Pedagogy for Paraliterature 229Jeffrey S. Chapman16 Creative Writing and Education 245Jeri Kroll17 The Rise and Rise of Writers’ Festivals 263Cori Stewart18 Creative Writing Research 278Graeme Harper19 Literary Prizes and Awards 291Claire SquiresPart III Creative Writing in the World 30520 D.H. Lawrence, Forever on the Move: Creative Writers and Place 307Louise DeSalvo21 The Psychology of Creative Writing 320Marie J.C. Forgeard, Scott Barry Kaufman, and James C. Kaufman22 Creative Writing around the World 334Matthew McCool23 Creative Hauntings: Creative Writing and Literary Heritage at the British Library 348Jamie Andrews24 Politics 357Jon Cook25 Creative Writing and the Cold War University 377Eric Bennett26 “To the imagination, the sacred is self-evident”: Thoughts on Spirituality and the Vocation of Creative Writing 393J. Matthew Boyleston27 The Writer-Teacher in the United States: The Place of Teachers in the Community of Writers 405Patrick Bizzaro28 Creative Writing to the Future 421Graeme HarperIndex 433