Writing Creative Writing: Essays from the Field - Rishma Dunlop, Daniel Scott Tysdal, Priscila Uppal 2016

Introduction

Writing creative writing pedagogy

Raid, warp, push: the pedagogy of poetic form

Beginning at the edge: teaching poetry through comic book panels and internet comment threads

The comics connection

It’s all about structure: the craft of screenwriting

He put his what where? Or: how to teach creative writing students to write plausible sex scenes, and at least prevent them from winning the “bad sex award”

Creative reading as hybrid pedagogy

“I’m stone in love with you”: stylistics in the creative writing classroom

Textual culture: a postmodern approach to creative writing pedagogy

The joys of adaptation: pedagogy and practice

From memorization to improvisation: the challenges of teaching creative writing to students in a culture of rote teaching

How to teach (online)

Small group workshops in large creative writing classes: because you can’t be everywhere at once

Re-writing the creative writing tradition poetic form as experimental procedure: the view from renaissance England

Spoken word: a gesture toward possibility

Two dots over a vowel

Bastards, pirates, and halfbreeds: playwriting in Canada

Writing the creative writing professor teaching, or not teaching, creative writing

Inciting a riot: digging down to a play

Writes of passage: women writing

One of these things is not like the others: the writer in the english department

Writing creative writing programs

Can’tlit: what canadian english departments could (but won’t) learn from the creative writing programs they host

The low-residency MFA: coast to coast and across the border

Engaged practice: coordinating and creating a community within a creative writing MFA program

Selling it: creative writing and the public good

Acknowledgements

Contributor biographies

Editor biographies