Creative Writing: Drafting, Revising and Editing - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1137609567 ISBN 13: 9781137609564

Publisher: Red Globe Press, 2020

Synopsis

This stimulating edited collection focuses on the practice of revision across all creative writing genres, providing a guide to the modes and methods of drafting, revising and editing. Offering an overview of how creative writing is generated and improved, the chapters address questions of how creative writers revise, why editing is such a crucial part of the creative process and how understanding the theories underpinning revision can enhance writers' projects.

Innovative and thought-provoking, this book is ideal for undergraduate and postgraduate students of creative writing, along with all creative writers looking to hone and polish their craft.

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About the Author

Graeme Harper is a Dean and Professor of Creative Writing at Oakland University, Michigan, USA. He is editor of New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing, and Director of the Great Writing International Creative Writing Conference at Imperial College London, and now in its 19th year. Graeme was the inaugural chair of the Higher Education Committee at the UK's National Association of Writers in Education (NAWE). A former Commonwealth Scholar in Creative Writing, he is an award-winning fiction writer, having won such awards as the Premier's Award for New Fiction, the NBC Award for New Fiction and, most recently, the Mutter Fellowship (2013). Professor Jeri Kroll is Dean of Graduate Research at Flinders University, South Australia. She has published over 25 books for adults and young people. Her most recent creative titles are Workshopping the Heart: New and Selected Poems and Vanishing Point (verse novel). The staged version of Vanishing Point was a winner in the 47th Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival and produced in Ohio, USA in 2015. The author of over fifty critical articles and chapters, the co-authored Research Methods in Creative Writing (2013) is her most recent book. Kroll has a Facebook page and a personal website (www.jerikroll.com).

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Edition details

• Publisher: Red Globe Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1137609567
• ISBN 13: 9781137609564
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 284
• Editor: Harper Graeme, Kroll Jeri