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Writing on Writing

How does creative writing happen? How does one go about crafting a work of fiction, poetry, or creative nonfiction? What do writers think as they write? In what ways do they struggle, and how do they overcome their struggles? What are their experiences with the business side of creative writing (publishing, dealing with editors, agents, rejection, etc.), and what advice can they offer? Through scholarly essays, reflective narratives, manifestos, credos, informed rants, and more, WoW illuminates the craft of writing and the writing life.

WoW also explores the territory of creative writing pedagogy, a strange and wonderful space too often ignored even by those who make it their home. Can creative writing be taught, and if so, how? What methods and ideologies are effective for different types of students on different types of campuses? What pedagogies are growing stale in creative writing, and why? What new pedagogies are emerging? How might other academic disciplines inform what goes on in the creative writing workshop? How can/should creative departments situate themselves in English departments and universities, and what politics are involved? Just what is creative writing, anyway?

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