E-grāmata: Creative Writing Studies: Practice, Research and Pedagogy

The Contributors		vii
Introduction
Graeme Harper and Jeri Kroll		xi
1 Creative Writing in the University
Graeme Harper and Jeri Kroll		1
2 The Novel and the Academic Novel
Nigel Krauth		10
3 Let Stones Speak: New Media Remediation in the Poetry Writing Classroom
Jake Adam York		21
4 That Was the Answer: Now What Was the Question? The PhD in Creative and Critical Writing: A Case Study
Nessa O'Mahony		36
5 Six Texts Prefigure a Seventh
Inez Baranay		48
6 Sleeping With Proust vs. Tinkering Under the Bonnet: The Origins and Consequences of the American and British Approaches to Creative Writing in Higher Education
Stephanie Vanderslice		66
7 Workshopping the Workshop and Teaching the Unteachable
Kevin Brophy		75
8 Creating an Integrated Model for Teaching Creative Writing: One Approach
Nigel McLoughlin		88
9 Gonzo-Formalism: A Creative Writing Meta-Pedagogy for Non-Traditional Students
Nat Hardy		101
10 Acting, Interacting and Acting Up: Teaching Collaborative Creative Practice
Jen Webb		117
11 Writer as Teacher, Teacher as Writer
Aileen La Tourette		130
12 The Ladies and the Baggage: Raymond Carver's Suppressed Research and the Apologetic Short Story
Rob Mimpriss		141
13 A Translator's Tale
Gregory Fraser		152
Afterword
David Fenza		165
Index		168

Graeme Harper is Professor of Creative Writing at Bangor University and Director of the National Institute for Excellence in the Creative Industries. Editor-in-Chief of the journal New Writing: the International Journal forthe Practice and Theory of Creative Writing, his most recent creative works are:Small Maps of the World (Parlor, 2006), and Moon Dance (Parlor, 2007). His most recent critical book in the field of creative writing is Teaching Creative Writing (Ed. Continuum, 2006). In the wider academic community, he is the Creative Writing member of Great Britain's Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Steering Committee on Practice-led Research and an honorary Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Bedfordshire. A Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) and of Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) (RSA), he holds such awards as the NBCAward for New Fiction (Aust.), among others.





Born in New York City, Jeri Kroll completed her Ph D at Columbia University and taught in the U.S. and England before moving to Australia. She is Professor of English and Program Coordinator of Creative Writing at Flinders University as well as immediate past President of the Australian Association of Writing Programs. On the editorial boards of NEW WRITING and TEXT, among other journals, her critical publications cover children's literature, Samuel Beckett, contemporary poetry and the pedagogy and theory of creative writing. She has published over twenty books for adults and young people, including poetry, picture books (two Children's Book Council Notable Awards), novels and anthologies, released both in Australia and overseas. Her most recent are Mickey's Little Book of Letters (novel/audiobook) and The Mother Workshops (poetry and prose).