Creative Writing Practice

Debra Adelaide is the author or editor of seventeen books, including novels, short fiction, and academic titles; she taught creative writing for twenty years until 2020, and is now an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. Sarah Attfield is a poet and lecturer in creative writing at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia, where she coordinates the undergraduate program; she is also co-editor of the Journal of Working-Class Studies.

• PART ONE.- THEORETICAL CHALLENGES: WORKING IT OUT.- CHAPTER 1 Debra Adelaide and Sarah Attfield — Introduction.- CHAPTER 2: Sarah Attfield — The Ethics of Working-Class Realism in Poetry.- CHAPTER 3:Sunil Badami — The Golden Rules  [TO COME].- CHAPTER 4: Craig Batty — Screenwriting Beyond the Paradigms: creativethinking and script development   [TO COME].- CHAPTER 5: Claire Corbett — Everything You Can Imagine is Real: worldbuilding, the donnée and the magic of writing.- CHAPTER 6: Margot Nash — Adaptation: essence and originality and radical transformation .- PART TWO PRACTICAL CHALLENGES: STARTING, STOPPING    AND FAILING.- CHAPTER 7:Delia Falconer — The Writer’s Notebook.- CHAPTER 8: Mark Rossiter — Prompting Creativity: revisiting Aristotle’s advice on plot and character.- CHAPTER 9: Andrew Pippos — Trading hours: time, order, and narration in Lucky’s .- CHAPTER 10: Gregory Ferris — Writing Without Frames.- CHAPTER 11: Debra Adelaide — The Corrections: succeeding at failure in the creative process.- PART THREE  CONSOLIDATING THE PROCESS: SUCCESS AND RESILIENCE.- CHAPTER 12: Dave Drayton — Counting Coco Pops: on constraint and creativity.- CHAPTER 13: Sue Joseph — When Your Subjects Do Not Agree [DRAFT ONLY].- CHAPTER 14: Liz Giuffre — Critical Distance: creative writing as a critic-fan.- CHAPTER 15: Tom Lee — Art, Design and Communicating the Story: the cover of Coach Fitz.- CHAPTER 16: Mark Isaacs — Behrouz Boochani: writing as resilience and resistance.