Evolving Strategies for Writing Feedback on Creative Manuscripts: A Multi-Genre Pedagogy Guide is a practical and essential resource for instructors of undergraduate and graduate creative writing courses.Designed for the novice and established instructor alike, it sheds light on a critical but often mysterious aspect of the creative writing classroom: writing comments on student work. Focusing on poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and including a bonus chapter on drama, this guide provides instructors actionable strategies for providing feedback to creative writing students, using sample student work and professors’ actual written comments as models for study. These invaluable insights are provided by experienced, highly-regarded writer-educators working at institutions around the world. An indispensable text, Evolving Strategies presents vital discussions about creative writing studies, pedagogy, and practice. Pressing topics in the field, such as decolonizing the creative writing classroom, meeting the needs of neurodivergent or disabled creative writing students, adapting the workshop tradition for remote instruction, and teaching international creative writing students are astutely and sensitively covered with these pages.Representing diverse perspectives from prestigious writers teaching at a variety of institutions, from research universities to liberal arts colleges, public and private, in person and online, this guidebook will benefit a wide array of creative writing educators and writers.
