{"product_id":"writing-creative-writing-9781459741690","title":"Writing Creative Writing","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEssential and engaging essays about the joys and challenges of creative writing and teaching creative writing by a host of Canada's leading writers.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWriting Creative Writing\u003c\/i\u003e is filled with thoughtful and entertaining essays on the joys and challenges of creative writing, the complexities of the creative writing classroom, the place of writing programs in the twenty-first century, and exciting strategies and exercises for writing and teaching different genres. Written by a host of Canada's leading writers, including Christian Bök, Catherine Bush, Suzette Mayr, Yvette Nolan, Judith Thompson, and thom vernon, this book is the first of its kind and destined to be a milestone for every creative writing student, teacher, aspirant, and professional.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWriting Creative Writing\u003c\/i\u003e is the first Canadian anthology to bring together such a wide-ranging collection of voices on teaching creative writing. This is a book for everyone interested in how we learn to write — students, writers, administrators and creative writing instructors will all find sparkling insights here into the diverse strategies writers use to help each other get better at the craft. * Sonnet L'Abbé *\u003cbr\u003eWhat a marvelous compendium of ideas, approaches and practices to help guide and reassure us as writers. This book is a must for Canadian writers, aspiring and established. * Joseph Kertes *\u003cbr\u003eThis vital compendium of contemporary writings on pedagogy in the creative writing classroom is essentially a heavy tool belt that will equip anyone for teaching in any genre and at every stage of their career * Natalee Caple *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRishma Dunlop, Daniel Scott Tysdal, and Priscila Uppal: Writing Creative Writing: A Student, A Teacher, and a Genre Walk Into a Classroom and into Endless Possibilities \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART I: Writing Creative Writing Pedagogy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA: By Genre(s)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWanda Campbell: Raid, Warp, Push: The Pedagogy of Poetic Form\u003cbr\u003eDaniel Scott Tysdal: Beginning at the Edge: Teaching Poetry Through Comic Book Panels and Internet Comment Threads\u003cbr\u003eMary Schendlinger: The Comics Connection\u003cbr\u003ePeggy Thompson:It’s All About Structure: The Craft of Screenwriting\u003cbr\u003eNicole Markotic and Suzette Mayr: He Put His What, WHERE? Or: how to teach creative writing students to write plausible sex scenes, prevent them from winning the Bad Sex Award, while not suffering from fear, alarm, dread, or embarrassment in the process\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eB: By Approach\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRishma Dunlop: Creative Writing as Hybrid Pedagogy\u003cbr\u003eLouis Cabri: “I’m Stone in Love With You”: Stylistics in the Creative Writing Classroom\u003cbr\u003eJennifer Duncan: Textual Culture: A Postmodern Approach to Creative Writing Pedagogy\u003cbr\u003ePriscila Uppal: The Joys of Adaptation: Pedagogy and Practice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eC: By Classroom\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGülyase Koçak: From Memorization to Improvisation: The Challenges of Teaching Creative Writing to Students Coming from a Culture of Rote Learning\u003cbr\u003eKathryn Kuitenbrouwer: How to Teach (Online)\u003cbr\u003eKathy Mac: Small Group Workshops in Large Creative Writing Classes: Because You Can’t Be \tEverywhere at Once\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART II: Re-Writing the Creative Writing Tradition\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDavid Goldstein: Poetic Form as Experimental Procedure: The View from Renaissance England\u003cbr\u003eAndrea Thompson: Spoken Word: A Gesture Toward Possibility \u003cbr\u003eChristian Bök: Two Dots Over a Vowel\u003cbr\u003eYvette Nolan: Bastards, Pirates, and Halfbreeds: Playwriting in Canada\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePART III: Writing the Creative Writing Professor\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAritha van Herk: Teaching, or Not Teaching Creative Writing\u003cbr\u003eJudith Thompson: Inciting a Riot: Digging Down into a Play\u003cbr\u003eLorri Neilsen Glenn: Writes of Passage: Women Writing\u003cbr\u003eStephanie Bolster: One of These Things is Not Like the Others: The Writer in the English Department\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART IV: Writing Creative Writing Programs\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDarryl Whetter: Can’tLit: What Canadian English Departments Could (but Won’t) Learn from the Creative Writing Programs They Host\u003cbr\u003eLori A. May: The Low-Residency MFA: Coast to Coast and Across the Border\u003cbr\u003eCatherine Bush: Engaged Practice: Coordinating and Creating a Community within a Creative Writing MFA Program\u003cbr\u003ethom vernon: Selling It: Creative Writing and the Public Good\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003eContributor Bios\u003cbr\u003eEditor Bios\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dundurn Group Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359433556311,"sku":"9781459741690","price":17.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781459741690.jpg?v=1754124634","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/writing-creative-writing-9781459741690","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}