Table of Contents

Contributor Biographies Foreword -- Sir Andrew Motion Introduction -- Graeme Harper 1. Creative Writing 1. The Architecture of Story -- Lorraine Lopez, Vanderbilt University 2. Writing Creative Non-Fiction -- Bronwyn T. Williams, University of Louisville 3. Writing Poetry -- Nigel McLoughlin, University of Gloucestershire 4. Writing for Children and Young Adults -- Kathleen Ahrens, Hong Kong Baptist University 5. Write on! Practical Strategies for Developing Playwriting -- Peter Billingham, University of Winchester 6. Writing for Sound/Radio -- Steve May, Bath Spa University 7. Writing the Screenplay -- Craig Batty, RMIT University 8. New Media Writing -- Carolyn Handler Miller, University of New Mexico 9. How to Make a Pocket Watch: the British PhD in Creative Writing -- Simon Holloway, Independent Scholar 10. Creative Writing and the Other Arts -- Harriet Edwards and Julia Lockheart, Goldsmiths College, University of London and the Royal College of Art 2. The Creative Writer's Profession 11. Agents, Publishers and Booksellers: an Historical Perspective -- John Feather, LoughboroughUniversity 12. The Changing Role of the Editors: Editors Past, Present and Future -- Frania Hall, London College of Communication, University of the Arts, London 13. Translation as Creative Writing --Manuela Perteghella, Independent Scholar 14. Creative Writing and 'the lash of criticism' -- Steve Earnshaw, Sheffield Hallam University 15. "But What's Really at Stake for the Barbarian Warrior?" Developing a Pedagogy for Paraliterature -- Jeffrey S. Chapman, Oakland University 16. Creative Writing and Education -- Jeri Kroll, Flinders University 17. The Rise and Rise of Writers' Festivals -- Cori Stewart, Arts Queensland (Australia) 18. Creative Writing Research -- Graeme Harper, Oakland University 19. Literary Prizes and Awards -- Claire Squires 3. Creative Writing in the World 20. D.H.Lawrence, Forever on the Move. Creative Writers and Place -- Louise DeSalvo, Hunter College, New York 21. The Psychology of Creative Writing -- James Kaufman, Scott Kaufman, Marie Foregeard, University of Pennsylvania, New York University, California State University at San Bernardino 22. Creative Writing Around the World -- Matthew McCool, Independent Scholar 23. Cultural Heritage and Creative Writing -- Jamie Andrews, The British Library 24. Politics -- Jon Cook, University of East Anglia 25. Creative Writing and the Cold War University -- Eric Bennett, Providence College 26. "To the imagination, the sacred is self-evident": Thoughts on Spirituality and the Vocation of Creative Writing -- J. Matthew Boyleston, Houston Baptist University 27. The Teacher-Writer in the USA: the Place of Teachers in the Community of Writers -- Patrick Bizzaro, Indiana University of Pennsylvania 28. Creative Writing to the Future -- Graeme Harper, Oakland University Index

About the Author

Graeme Harper is a Professor of Creative Writing and Director 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 (2012) 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.