Creative Writing Practice: Reflections on Form and Process - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3030736733 ISBN 13: 9783030736736

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021

Synopsis

Creative Writing Practice: reflections on form and process explores the craft of creative writing by illuminating the practices of writers and writer-educators. Demonstrating solutions to problems in different forms and genres, the contributors draw on their professional and personal experiences to examine specific and practical challenges that writers must confront and solve in order to write. 

This book discusses a range of approaches to writing, such as the early working out of projects, the idea of experimentation, of narrative time, and of failure.  With its strong focus on process, Creative Writing Practice is a valuable guide for students, scholars and practitioners of creative writing.  

About this title

About the Author

Debra Adelaide is the author or editor of seventeen books, including novels, short fiction, and academic titles; she taught creative writing for twenty years until 2020, and is now an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia.

 

Sarah Attfield is a poet and lecturer in creative writing at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia, where she coordinates the undergraduate program; she is also co-editor of the Journal of Working-Class Studies.

From the Back Cover

Creative Writing Practice: reflections on form and process explores the craft of creative writing by illuminating the practices of writers and writer-educators. Demonstrating solutions to problems in different forms and genres, the contributors draw on their professional and personal experiences to examine specific and practical challenges that writers must confront and solve in order to write. 

 This book discusses a range of approaches to writing, such as the early working out of projects, the idea of experimentation, of narrative time, and of failure.  With its strong focus on process, Creative Writing Practice is a valuable guide for students, scholars and practitioners of creative writing.  

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3030736733
• ISBN 13: 9783030736736
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 277
• Editor: Adelaide Debra, Attfield Sarah