Can Creative Writing Really Be Taught?: Resisting Lore in Creative Writing Pedagogy

By Stephanie Vanderslice and Rebecca Manery

Book Overview

Revised and updated throughout, this 10th-anniversary edition of Can Creative Writing Really Be Taught? is a significantly expanded guide to key issues and practices in creative writing teaching today.

Challenging the myths of creative writing teaching, experienced and up-and-coming teachers explore what works in the classroom and workshop and what does not. Now brought up-to-date with new issues that have emerged with the explosion of creative writing courses in higher education, the new edition includes:

- Guides to and case studies of workshop practice
- Discussions on grading and the myth of "the easy A"
- Explorations of the relationship between reading and writing
- A new chapter on creative writing research
- A new chapter on games, fan-fiction and genre writing
- New chapters on identity and activism

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147428504X
• ISBN13: 9781474285049
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.2"