A to Z of Creative Writing Methods: Knowing, Doing, Practicing and Creating (Research in Creative Writing) - Hardcover

Francesca Rendle-Short; Julienne Van Loon; David Carlin; Stayci Taylor; Deborah Wardle; Peta Murray

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1350184209 ISBN 13: 9781350184206

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022

Synopsis

This glossary collates and summarizes over fifty recent developments in methods research within the discipline of creative writing, enabling readers to understand the different methodologies available before inviting them to implement them and extend their own practices. Accessible and provocative in encouraging readers to reflect on how they practice and create what they do, each entry uses carefully constructed apparatus to introduce the reader to these exciting new approaches:

-A descriptive summary that offers a clear definition of each term
-A short essay contextualizing the approach, mapping out the scholarly and literary territory surrounding it, presenting cases studies and suggesting generative ways of knowing, doing, practicing or creating using that method
-further reading

Providing introductions to key conversations in creative writing methodology, A to Z of Creative Writing Methods also offers a selection and treatment of topics and subject matter, authorship and references, that emphasize and celebrate diversity and intersectionality, as well as the exploring the present-day concerns, preoccupations, limits, and possibilities of different approaches. Not exhaustive but designed to be experimental – offering hypothesis, testing, and generating further inquiry by readers – this book lays bare developments which may otherwise have remained relatively fugitive in the pages of journals, making it an invaluable resource for the field of creative writing studies.

About this title

About the Authors

Deborah Wardle has fiction, nonfiction and peer-reviewed articles in Australian and international journals. Deborah teaches at RMIT University and University of Melbourne. Her PhD thesis explores the ways climate fiction expresses the ‘voices’ of more-than-human entities, particularly groundwater. Her book with Routledge Subterranean Imaginings: Groundwater Narratives is due 2023.

Julienne van Loon is Associate Professor in Creative Writing at Melbourne University, Australia and Honorary Fellow in Writing at the University of Iowa. Her research interests include feminist literary practice, contemporary narrative fiction and literary value. Publications include The Thinking Woman (2020), Harmless (2014), Beneath the Bloodwood Tree (2008), and Road Story (2005). She is managing editor at TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses, see https://textjournal.scholasticahq.com/

Stayci Taylor is Senior Lecturer at RMIT University in the School of Media and Communication. Her research interests include screenwriting, script development, nonfiction and creative practice. She has published in all of these areas, in both scholarly and creative outlets, and often through the lenses of gender and comedy. She is lead editor of The Palgrave Handbook of Script Development (2021).

Francesca Rendle-Short is Professor of Creative Writing in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University. She is interested in a research practice that seeks to subvert normative practices, one focused on ethical enquiry. She is co-founder of non/fictionLab and WrICE (Writers Immersion and Cultural Exchange). Her five books include The Near and the Far (Vol I and II; 2016, 2019) and Bite Your Tongue (2011).

Peta Murray is Lecturer in Creative Writing at RMIT University, Melbourne. Her research focus is the role of language and arts-based practices as modes of inquiry and forms of cultural activism. Publications include plays such as Salt (2001), fiction including Indigestion (2010), collaborative, queer and multi-modal works of live art such as vigil/wake (2019), and adventures in the essayesque, Glossalalalararium Pandemiconium (2020).

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1350184209
• ISBN 13: 9781350184206
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Francesca Rendle-Short, Julienne Van Loon, David Carlin, Stayci Taylor, Deborah Wardle, Peta Murray