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Creative writing innovations : breaking boundaries in the classroom / edited by Michael Dean Clark, Trent Hergenrader, and Joseph Rein

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: vi, 243 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781474297172
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN 181 .C860 2017
Contents:
Introduction: Creative writing innovations / Michael Dean Clark, Trent Hergenrader, and Joseph Rein -- Part 1: Rethinking the workshop -- Notes toward an inventive, process-oriented pedagogy for introductory multigenre creative writing courses / Tim Mayers -- The unworkshop / Graeme Harper -- The gum beneath God's shoe: A testimony in favor of the sequence or series graduate workshop / Derrick Harriell -- Part 2: Expanding genre -- The empathy project: A research assignment for fiction writing students / Rachel Haley Himmelheber -- Musico-literary miscegenations: Word and sound relationships in creative writing pedagogy / Hazel Smith -- The poetry of music, the music of poetry: An annotated syllabus / Tom C. Hunley -- Words with borders, projects without: Screenwriting, collaboration, and the workshop / Joseph Rein and Kyle McGinn -- Sequential experiences: Course design as resistance in creative nonfiction / Michael Dean Clark -- Part 3: Creative Collaborations -- Collaborative story writing and the question of influence / Mary Ann Cain -- Steampunk Rochester: An interdisciplinary, location-based, collaborative world building project / Trent Hergenrader -- Place-based pedagogy and creative writing as a fieldwork course / Janelle Adsit -- Our town: Teaching creative writing students to love research and collaboration / Cathy Day -- For WB: When our students write us / Katharine Haake -- Part 4: Identity and the creative writing classroom -- Radical imperfection / Tonya C. Hegamin -- Gender identity and the creative writing classroom / Ching-In Chen -- Pedagogy and authority in teaching The Waste Land: What we do with authorial voices and the postcolonial body in the writing workshop / Prageeta Sharma
Summary: When teachers experiment, students benefit. When students gain confidence to pursue their own literary experiments, creative writing can become a life-changing experience. With chapters written by experienced teachers and classroom innovators, Creative Writing Innovations builds on these princples to uncover the true potential of the creative writing classroom. Rooted in classroom experience, this book takes teaching beyond the traditional workshop model to explore topics such as multi-media genres, collaborative writing and field-based work, as well as issues of identity. Taken together, this is an essential guide for teachers of creative writing at all levels from the authors and editors of Creative Writing in the Digital Age. -- from back cover
List(s) this item appears in: Faculty Reference 2018 | SSPH122_CREATIVE WRITING/MALIKHAING PAGSULAT | SSPH211_CREATIVE NONFICTION
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Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction: Creative writing innovations / Michael Dean Clark, Trent Hergenrader, and Joseph Rein -- Part 1: Rethinking the workshop -- Notes toward an inventive, process-oriented pedagogy for introductory multigenre creative writing courses / Tim Mayers -- The unworkshop / Graeme Harper -- The gum beneath God's shoe: A testimony in favor of the sequence or series graduate workshop / Derrick Harriell -- Part 2: Expanding genre -- The empathy project: A research assignment for fiction writing students / Rachel Haley Himmelheber -- Musico-literary miscegenations: Word and sound relationships in creative writing pedagogy / Hazel Smith -- The poetry of music, the music of poetry: An annotated syllabus / Tom C. Hunley -- Words with borders, projects without: Screenwriting, collaboration, and the workshop / Joseph Rein and Kyle McGinn -- Sequential experiences: Course design as resistance in creative nonfiction / Michael Dean Clark -- Part 3: Creative Collaborations -- Collaborative story writing and the question of influence / Mary Ann Cain -- Steampunk Rochester: An interdisciplinary, location-based, collaborative world building project / Trent Hergenrader -- Place-based pedagogy and creative writing as a fieldwork course / Janelle Adsit -- Our town: Teaching creative writing students to love research and collaboration / Cathy Day -- For WB: When our students write us / Katharine Haake -- Part 4: Identity and the creative writing classroom -- Radical imperfection / Tonya C. Hegamin -- Gender identity and the creative writing classroom / Ching-In Chen -- Pedagogy and authority in teaching The Waste Land: What we do with authorial voices and the postcolonial body in the writing workshop / Prageeta Sharma

When teachers experiment, students benefit. When students gain confidence to pursue their own literary experiments, creative writing can become a life-changing experience. With chapters written by experienced teachers and classroom innovators, Creative Writing Innovations builds on these princples to uncover the true potential of the creative writing classroom. Rooted in classroom experience, this book takes teaching beyond the traditional workshop model to explore topics such as multi-media genres, collaborative writing and field-based work, as well as issues of identity. Taken together, this is an essential guide for teachers of creative writing at all levels from the authors and editors of Creative Writing in the Digital Age. -- from back cover

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