Creative Writing Pedagogy

Compiled by Janelle Adsit

Colorado State University

Posted by Rebecca Moore Howard

Syracuse University

Janelle Adsit has been kind enough to share this bibliography. Here’s her note about it:

This bibliography focuses on college-level creative writing instruction. It does not include articles and reviews from the Writer’s Chronicle (U.S.), TEXT (Australia), New Writing (Britain), or Creative Writing: Teaching, Theory, and Practice. These publications can be found at the following links:

Writer’s Chronicle http://elink.awpwriter.org/[1]

TEXT http://www.textjournal.com.au[2]

New Writing http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/rmnw[3]

Creative Writing: Teaching, Theory, and Practice http://www.cwteaching.com/#/journal/4532716648[4]

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Amato, Joe, and H. Kassia Fleisher. “Reforming Creative Writing Pedagogy: History as Knowledge, Knowledge as Activism” Creative Writing Pedagogy Cluster. electronic book review. 5 Aug 2008 <http://www.altax.com/ebr/riposte/rip2/rip2ped/amato.htm[5]  >. With responses by Lance Olsen, Ronald Sukenick, Sandy Huss, R.M. Berry, Marjorie Perloff, and David Radavich.

 

Abbs, Peter. A Is for Aesthetic: Essays on Creative Writing and Aesthetic Education. New York: Falmer Press, 1989. Print.

Andrews, Kimberly “A House Divided: On the Future of Creative Writing.” College English 71 3 (Jan. 2009): 242-55. Print.

Bailey, Jennifer. “Creative Writing in Higher Education: Towards a Redefinition of Reading and Writing.” Higher Education Review 29 3: 65-69. Print.

Barden, Dan. “A Rant against Creative Writing Classes.” Poets & Writers (Mar./Apr. 2008): 83-88. Print.

Barth, John. “Can It Be Taught?” Further Fridays: Essays, Lectures, and Other Nonfiction, 1984-94. Boston: Little, Brown, 1995. 22-34. Print.

Bartlett, Lee. Talking Poetry: Conversations in the Workshop with Contemporary Poets. Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P, 1987. Print.

Bawer, Bruce. “Dave Smith’s ‘Creative Writing’.” Prophets & Professors: Essays on the Lives and Works of Modern Poets. Brownsville, OR: Story Line P, 1995. Print.

Beck, Heather, ed. Teaching Creative Writing in Higher Education: Anglo-American Perspectives. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. Print.

Bell, J., and P. Magrs, eds. The Creative Writing Coursebook. New York: Macmillan, 2001. Print.

Bellamy, Joe David. “The Theory of Creative Writing I & Ii.” Literary Luxuries. American Writing at the End of the Millennium. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 1995. 87-107. Print.

Betts, Doris. “Undergraduate Creative Writing Courses.” ADE Bulletin 79  (1984): 34-36. Print.

Bishop, Wendy. Released into Language: Options for Teaching Creative Writing. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1990. Print.

—. “Teaching Undergraduate Creative Writing: Myths, Mentors, and Metaphors.” Journal of Teaching Writing 7 7: 83-102. Print.

Bishop, Wendy, and Hans Ostrom, eds. Colors of a Different Horse: Rethinking Creative Writing Theory and Pedagogy. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1994. Print.

Bizzaro, Patrick. Responding to Student Poems: Applications of Critical Theory. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1993. Print.

Bizzaro, Patrick “Should I Write This Essay or Finish a Poem? Teaching Writing Creatively.” College Composition and Communication 49 2 (May 1998): 285-87. Print.

Bizzaro, Patrick. “Teacher as Writer and Researcher: The Poetry Dilemma.” Language Arts   (Oct. 1983): 851-59. Print.

Blythe, Hal, and Charlie Sweet. “The Writing Community: A New Model for the Creative Writing Classroom.” Pedagogy 8 2 (Spring 2008): 305-25 Print.

Boulter, Amanda. “Assessing the Criteria: An Argument for Creative Writing Theory.” New Writing: International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing 1 2: 134-40. Print.

Bradbury, Malcolm. “The Bridgeable Gap: Bringing Together the Creative Writer and the Critical Theorist in an Authorless World.” TLS   (Jan. 1992): 7-9. Print.

Brophy, Kevin. “Creative Writing and Institutions of Higher Education.” Print.

Bulman, Colin “Creative Writing in Higher Education: Problems of Assessment.” English in Education 20 1 (1986): 48-54. Print.

Bulman, Colin. “Devising and Teaching a Creative Writing Course.” Critical Quarterly 26 3: 73-81. Print.

Bunge, Nancy. Finding the Words: Conversations with Writers Who Teach. Athens: Ohio UP, 1985. Print.

Burroughs, John. Literary Values and Other Papers. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1902. Print.

Cain, Mary Ann. “Problematizing Formalism: A Double-Cross of Genre Boundaries.” College Composition and Communication 51 (Sep. 1999): 89-95. Print.

—. “’to Be Lived’: Theorizing Influence in Creative Writing.” College English 71 3 (Jan. 2009): 229-41. Print.

Carruth, Hayden. “How Not to Rate a Poet.” Effluences from the Sacred Cave: More Selected Essays and Reviews. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1983. 11-16. Print.

Cherry, Kelly. “When All Is Said and Done, How Literary Theory Really Affects Contemporary Fiction.” New Literary History 21 1 (Autumn 1985): 111-20. Print.

Chestek, Virginia L. . “Teaching Creative Writing: An Emphasis on Preparation.” Freshman English News 15: 16-19. Print.

Coles, Katherine. “Short Fiction.” Teaching Creative Writing. Ed. Harper, Graeme. New York: Continuum, 2006. 8-20. Print.

Cooley, Nicole. “Literary Legacies and Critical Transformations: Teaching Creative Writing in the Public Urban University.” Pedagogy 3 1 (2003): 99-103. Print.

Crockett, Andy. “Straddling the Rhet Comp/Creative Writing Schism.” Writing on the Edge 9 2 (Spring 1998): 83-97. Print.

Davenport, Guy. “An Afterword.” Radi Os. Chicago: Flood Editions, 2005. 93-105. Print.

Davidson, Chad, and Gregory Fraser. “Poetry.” Teaching Creative Writing. Ed. Harper, Graeme. New York: Continuum, 2006. 21-33. Print.

Dawes, Kwame, and Christy Friend. “English 890: Studies in Composition and Rhetoric ‘Teaching Creative Writing: Theories and Practices.” Composition Studies 31 2 (Fall 2003): 107-24. Print.

Dawn, Paul. “Thou Shall Have Balance: The Ten Commandments of Teaching Creative Writing.”  (2007). 10 Dec. 2008 <http://paulspen.com/archives/28>.

Dawson, Paul. Creative Writing and the New Humanities. New York: Routledge, 2005. Print.

—. “The Function of Critical Theory in Tertiary Creative Writing Programmes.” Southern Review 30 1 (1997): 70-80. Print.

Donnelly, Dianne, ed. Does the Writing Workshop Still Work? . Buffalo, NY: Multilingual Matters, 2010. Print.

Drew, Chris, Joseph Rein, and David Yost, eds. Dispatches from the Front: Graduate Student Essays on Creative Writing Pedagogy. New York: Continuum, 2011. Print.

Duke, Charles R., and Sally A. Jacobsen. Poets’ Perspectives: Reading, Writing, and Teaching Poetry. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1992. Print.

—, eds. Reading and Writing Poetry: Successful Approaches for the Student and Teacher. Phoenix: Oryx, 1983. Print.

Garber, Eugene, and Jan Ramjerdi. “Reflections on the Teaching of Creative Writing: A Correspondence.” Colors of a Different Horse: Rethinking Creative Writing Theory and Pedagogy. Ed. Ostrom, Wendy Bishop and Hans. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1994. 8-26. Print.

Garrett, George, ed. Craft So Hard to Learn: Conversations with Poets and Novelists About the Teaching of Writing, Conducted by John Graham. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1972. Print.

Gordimer, Nadine. “The Essential Gesture: Writers and Responsibility.” The Granta 15 1985: 137-50. Print.

Green, Chris. “Materializing the Sublime Reader: Cultural Studies, Reader Response, and Community Service in the Creative Writing Workshop.” College English 64 2 (Nov. 2001): 153-74. Print.

Grimes, Tom. “The Workshop’s Evolution & the Writer’s Life.” Writer’s Chronicle 32 1 (Sep. 1999): 19-30. Print.

Haake, Katharine “Creative Writing.” English Studies: An Introduction to the Discipline(S). Ed. McComiskey, Bruce. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 2006. 153-98. Print.

Haake, Katharine. “Teaching Creative Writing If the Shoe Fits.” Colors of a Different Horse: Rethinking Creative Writing Theory and Pedagogy. Eds. Bishop, Wendy and Hans Ostrom. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1994. 77-99. Print.

Harper, Graeme. On Creative Writing. Buffalo, NY: Multilingual Matters, 2010. Print.

—, ed. Teaching Creative Writing. New York: Continuum, 2006. Print.

Harper, Graeme, and Jeri Kroll, eds. Creative Writing Studies: Practice, Research and Pedagogy. Buffalo, NY: Multilingual Matters, 2008. Print.

Harris, Judith. “Re-Writing the Subject: Psychoanalytic Approaches to Creative Writing and Composition Pedagogy.” College English 63 2 (Nov. 2001): 175-204. Print.

Hatmaker, Elizabeth A. “Producing Desire/Desiring Production: Reconfiguring Creative Writing Pedagogy.” Diss. Illinois State University, 2003.

Holland, Siobhan, et al. Report Series No. 6 Creative Writing: A Good Practice Guide. London: Learning and Teaching Support Network English Subject Centre of the U of London, 2002. Print.

Hugo, Richard. The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing. New York: W.W. Norton, 1979. Print.

Hunley, Tom C. Teaching Poetry Writing: A Five-Canon Approach. Buffalo: Multilingual Matters, 2007. Print.

Johnson, David M. Word Weaving: A Creative Approach to Teaching and Writing Poetry. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1990. Print.

Krauth, Nigel, and Tess Brady. Creative Writing: Theory Beyond Practice. Tenneriffe, QLD: Post Pressed, 2006. Print.

Kremers, Carolyn. “Through the Eyes and Ears of Another Culture: Invention Activities and a Writers’ Workshop.” Exercise Exchange 35 5: 3-11. Print.

Kroll, Jeri, and Donna Lee Brien. “Studying for the Future: Training Creative Writing Postgraduates for Life after Degrees.” Arts Education 2 1: 1-13. Print.

Leahy, Anna, ed. Power and Identity in the Creative Writing Classroom: The Authority Project. Buffalo, NY: Multilingual Matters, 2005. Print.

Lensmire, Timothy J., and Lisa Satanovsky. “Defense of the Romantic Poet? Writing Workshops and Voice.” Theory into Practice 37 4 (Autumn 1998): 280-88. Print.

Leonard, Elisabeth Anne. “Assignment #9. A Text Which Engages the Socially Constructed Identity of Its Writer.” College Composition and Communication 48 2 (May 1997): 215-30. Print.

Light, Gregory. “From the Personal to the Public: Conceptions of Creative Writing in Higher Education.” Higher Education 43  (2002): 257-76. Print.

Lim, Shirley Geok-lin. “Lore, Practice, and Social Identity in Creative Writing Pedagogy: Speaking with a Yellow Voice?” Pedagogy 10 1 (Winter 2010): 79-93. Print.

—. “The Strangeness of Creative Writing: An Institutional Query.” Pedagogy 3 2: 151-69. Print.

Lodge, David. “Creative Writing: Can It/Should It Be Taught?” Practice of Writing. New York: Penguin, 1997. 171-78. Print.

May, Steve. Doing Creative Writing. New York: Routledge, 2007. Print.

Mayers, Tim. “One Simple Word: From Creative Writing to Creative Writing Studies.” College English 71 3 (Jan. 2009): 217-28. Print.

—. (Re)Writing Craft: Composition, Creative Writing, and the Future of English. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 2005. Print.

McFarland, Ron. “An Apologia for Creative Writing.” College English 55 1 (January 1993): 28-45. Print.

—. “Ron Mcfarland Responds.” College English 56 2 (Feb. 1994): 220-22. Print.

McGurl, Mark. The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing. Boston: Harvard UP, 2009. Print.

Monteith, Moira, and Robert Miles. Teaching Creative Writing: Theory and Practice. Philadelphia: Open UP, 1992. Print.

Morton, Donald, and Mas’ud Zavarzadeh. “The Cultural Politics of the Fiction Workshop.” Cultural Critique 11  (Winter 1988-1989): 155-73. Print.

—. “The Cultural Politics of the Fiction Workshop.” Cultural Critique 11  (Winter 1988-1989): 155-73. Print.

Moxley, Joseph, ed. Creative Writing in America: Theory and Pedagogy. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1989. Print.

Muller, Lauren, and June Jordan. “June Jordan’s Poetry for the People: A Revolutionary Blueprint.” New York: Taylor & Francis, 1995. Print.

Myers, D.G. The Elephants Teach: Creative Writing since 1880. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1996. Print.

Neubauer, Alexander. Conversations on Writing Fiction: Interviews with Thirteen Distinguished Teachers of Fiction Writing in America. New York: Harper Collins, 1994. Print.

—. “The Fiction Class Revisited, or Can Fiction Writing Still Be Taught?” Poets & Writers   (Mar./Apr. 1996): 42-53. Print.

Newlin, Paul. “Creating Creative Writing in a Traditional English Department.” ADE Bulletin 78  (Summer 1984): 24-27. Print.

Newlyn, Lucy , and Jenny Lewis, eds. Synergies: Creative Writing in Academic Practice. St. Edmund Hall: Chough, 2003. Print.

O’Rourke, Rebecca. Creative Writing: Education, Culture, and Community. Leicester: Niace, 2005. Print.

Orr, Gregory, and Ellen Bryant Voigt. Poets Teaching Poets: Self and the World. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1996. Print.

Ostrom, Hans “Undergraduate Creative Writing: The Unexamined Subject.” Writing on the Edge 1 1 (1989): 55-65. Print.

Ostrom, Hans, and Wendy Bishop. “Letting the Boundaries Draw Themselves: What Theory and Practice Have Been Trying to Tell Us.” Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association.  Print.

Parini, Jay “Literary Theory and the Culture of Creative Writing.” Some Necessary Angels: Essays on Writing and Politics. New York: Columbia UP, 1997. 231-39. Print.

Parris, Peggy Baldwin. “Setting Free the Birds: Heuristic Approaches to the Teaching of Creative Writing at the College Level.” Drake Un, 1983. Print.

Pateman, Trevor. “Writing: Some Thoughts on the Teachable and Unteachable in Creative Writing.” Journal of Aesthetic Education 32 3 (Fall 1998): 83-90. Print.

Perloff, Marjorie. “Creative Writing’ among the Disciplines.” MLA Newsletter 38 1 (Spring 2006): 3-4. Print.

Prentice, Penelope. “Teaching Creative Writing in the Twenty-First Century: Addressing All the Genres.” Annual Meeting of the College English Association. Ed. Print.

Radavich, David. “Comment on ‘an Apologia for Creative Writing’.” College English 56 2 (Feb. 1994): 219-20. Print.

—. “Creative Writing in the Academy.” Profession (1999): 106-12. Print.

Ramey, Lauri. “Creative Writing and English Studies: Two Approaches to Literature.”  (2001). 13 Aug. 2008 <www.english.heacademy.ac.uk/admin/events/fileUploads/Ramey.rtf[6] >.

Reid, Ian. The Making of Literature: Texts, Contexts, and Classroom Practices. Norwood: Australian Association for the Teaching of English, 1984. Print.

Retallack, Joan, and Juliana Spahr, eds. Poetry and Pedagogy: The Challenge of the Contemporary. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Print.

Ritter, Kelly, and Stephanie Vanderslice C., ed. Can It Really Be Taught?: Resisting Lore in Creative Writing Pedagogy. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook Heinemann, 2007. Print.

Ritter, Kelly. “Ethos Interrupted: Diffusing ‘Star’ Pedagogy in Creative Writing Programs.” College English 69  (2007): 283-92. Print.

Royster, Brent. “The Construction of Self in the Contemporary Creative Writing Workshop: A Personal Journey.” Diss. Bowling Green State University, 2006. Print.

Sanders, Scott Russell. “The Writer in the University.” ADE Bulletin 99  (Fall 1991): 21-28. Print.

Schlee, Ann. “Some Problems of a Creative Writing Class.” Adult Education 55 1 (982): 43-48. Print.

Sharples, Mike. Cognition, Computers, and Creative Writing. New York: Halsted, 1985. Print.

Siegel, Ben, ed. The American Writer and the University. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1989. Print.

Smith, Dave. “Notes on Responsibility and the Teaching of Creative Writing.” Local Assays: On Contemporary American Poetry. Urbana, IL: U of Illinois P, 1985. 215-28. Print.

Smith, Frank. “Myths of Writing.” Language Arts 58  (1981): 792-98. Print.

“Special Issue: The Workshop.” Mississippi Review 19. 1& 2 (1990): 290-337.

St. Clair, Philip. “A Wilderness with a Map: Teaching the First Course in Creative Writing.” Iowa English Bulletin 35 1 (1987): 43-55. Print.

Starkey, David. Teaching Writing Creatively. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1998. Print.

Stegner, Wallace. On Teaching and Writing Fiction. New York: Penguin, 2002. Print.

—. On the Teaching of Creative Writing: Responses to a Series of Questions. Ed. Lathem, Edward Connery. Hanover: UP of New England, 1997. Print.

—. Teaching the Short Story. Davis: U of California, 1965. Print.

—. The Writer in America. New York: Haskell, 1977. Print.

Stein, Kevin. “What Are We up To?” Iowa English Bulletin: Teaching Creative Writing 35 1: 3-10. Print.

Taylor, Debbie. “Can Writing Be Taught?” Mslexia 20: 12-15. Print.

Teichmann, Sandra Gail. “Comment on ‘an Apologia for Creative Writing’.” College English 56 2 (Feb. 1994): 217-19. Print.

Teleky, Richard. “Entering the Silence’: Voice, Ethnicity, and the Pedagogy of Creative Writing.” MELUS 26 1 (Spring 2001): 205-19. Print.

Tomlinson, Barbara. Authors on Writing: Metaphors and Intellectual Labor. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Print.

—. “Cooking, Mining, Gardening, Hunting: Metaphorical Stories Writers Tell About Their Composing Processes.” Metaphor and Symbol 1 1: 57-79. Print.

Turner, Alberta T. Poets Teaching: The Creative Process. New York: Longman, 1980. Print.

Vakil, Ardashir. “Teaching Creative Writing.” Changing English 15 2 (Jun. 2008): 157-65. Print.

Wade, Stephen. The Forms of Things Unknown: Essays on Teaching and Learning Creative Writing. Nottingham: Paupers, 2003. Print.

Wandor, Michelene. The Author Is Not Dead, Merely Somewhere Else: Creative Writing Reconceived. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. Print.

Welch, Nancy. “No Apology: Challenging the ‘Uselessness’ of Creative Writing.” JAC 19 1 (Winter 1999): 117-34. Print.

Westbrook, Steve. “Composition-Rhetoric, Creative Writing, and Institutional Reform: Synthesizing the Terms of Separation.” SUNY Albany, 2004. Print.

Wilbers, Stephen. The Iowa Writers’ Workshop: Origins, Emergence, & Growth. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1980. Print.

Wojciechowska, Maia. “What I Teach in Creative Writing Classes.” The Writer 100 7 (Jul. 1987): 5-6. Print.

Woods, Claire. “Writing, Textual Culture and the Humanities.” Creative Writing: Theory Beyond Practice. Eds. Krauth, Nigel and Tess Brady. Teneriffe, Qld: Post Pressed, 2006. 121-39. Print.

Ziegler, Alan. The Writing Workshop. Vol. 1. New York: Teachers and Writers Collaborative, 1981. Print.

—. The Writing Workshop. Vol. 2. New York: Teachers and Writers Collaborative, 1984. Print.