Changing Creative Writing in America

Graeme Harper is a Professor of Creative Writing and Dean of The Honors College at Oakland University in Michigan, USA. An award-winning fiction writer, and former Commonwealth scholar in Creative Writing, he has published widely on Creative Writing and its development as an academic discipline. He is Editor of the journal New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing and is Editor-In-Chief of the book series New Writing Viewpoints. His latest work of fiction is The Japanese Cook (Parlor, 2017). In 2015 he edited Creative Writing and Education (Multilingual Matters).

This book arrives at a fortunate moment for anyone interested in Creative Writing Studies. As issues of disciplinary identity and institutional positioning are being brought in sharp focus by changes in universities and the culture at large, this book raises important questions about potential futures for Creative Writing. The authors, coming from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, survey, but also push against, the boundaries of theory, policy, and writing practice to explore the landscape of Creative Writing in the contemporary university in ways that are rigorously intellectual and bountifully creative.

• Joe Moxley: Foreword1. Graeme Harper: Introduction: The Possibilities for Creative Writing in America2. Alexandria Peary: Histories and Historiography in Creative Writing Studies3. Katharine Haake: Writing as Spiritual Practice4. Tim Mayers: We Serve Writing Here5. Stephanie Vanderslice: Theory and Pedagogy in Introductory Writing Textbooks: Creative Writing Leads the Way6. Angela Ferraiolo: The Print Doctrine7. Bruce Horner: Rewriting Creative Writing8. Dianne Donnelly: The Convergence of Creative Processes and Their Neurological Mapping9. Joseph Rein: Toward an Interdisciplinary Creative Writing10. Kate Kostelnik: Creative Writing in First-Year Writing: Let’s Remind, or Re-teach, the Value of Fiction11. Christine Bailey and Patrick Bizzaro: Against Appropriation: Creative Writing and the Making of KnowledgeAuthor BiographiesIndex