Creative Writing Pedagogy Bibliography

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 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/


TEXT http://www.textjournal.com.au


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


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


 

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 >. With responses by Lance Olsen, Ronald Sukenick, Sandy Huss, R.M. Berry, Marjorie Perloff, and David Radavich.

 

Andrews, Kimberly. “A House Divided: On the Future of Creative Writing.” College English 71.3 (Jan. 2009): 242-255.

 

Bailey, Jennifer. “Creative Writing in higher education: towards a redefinition of reading and writing.” Higher Education Review 29.3 (1997) 65-69.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

Bishop, Wendy. Released into Language: Options for Teaching Creative Writing. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 1990.

 

Bishop, Wendy. “Teaching Undergraduate Creative Writing: Myths, Mentors, and Metaphors.” Journal of Teaching Writing 7(1988): 83-102.

                       

Bizzaro, Patrick. “Research and Reflection in English Studies: The Special Case of Creative Writing.” College English 66.3 (Jan. 2004): 294-309.

 

Bizzaro, Patrick. Responding to Student Poems: Applications of Critical Theory. Urbana, Ill: National Council of Teachers of English, 1993.

 

Bizzaro, Patrick. “Should I Write This Essay or Finish a Poem? Teaching Writing Creatively.” College Composition and Communication 49.2 (May 1998): 285-287.

 

Bizzaro, Patrick. “Teacher as Writer and Researcher: The Poetry Dilemma.” Language Arts (Oct. 1983): 851-859.

 

Bogen, Don. “Beyond the Workshop: Suggestions for a Process-Oriented Creative Writing Course.” Journal of Advanced Composition 5 (1984): 149-161.

 

Bardbury, Malcolm. “The Bridgeable Gap: Bringing together the creative writer and the critical theorist in an authorless world.” TLS (Jan. 17, 1992): 7-9.

 

Bulman, Colin. “Creative Writing in Higher Education: Problems of Assessment.” English in Education 20.1 (1986): 48-54.

 

Bulman, Colin. “Devising and teaching a creative writing course.” Critical Quarterly 26.3 (1984): 73-81.

 

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

 

Cain, Mary Ann. “’To Be Lived’: Theorizing Influence in Creative Writing.” College English 71.3 (Jan. 2009): 229-241.

 

Cherry, Kelly. “When All Is Said and Done, How Literary Theory Really Affects Contemporary Fiction.” New Literary History 21.1 (Autumn 1985): 111-120.

 

Chestek, Virginia L. “Teaching Creative Writing: An Emphasis on Preparation.” Freshman English News 15 (1986): 16-19.

 

Cooley, Nicole. “Literary Legacies and Critical Transformations: Teaching Creative Writing in the Public Urban University.” Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture 3.1 (2003): 99-103.

 

Crockett, Andy. “Straddling the Rhet Comp/Creative Writing Schism.” Writing on the Edge 9.2 (Spring 1998): 83-97.

 

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.

 

Dawn, Paul. “Thou Shall Have Balance: The Ten Commandments of Teaching Creative Writing.”  7 Dec. 2007. 10 Dec. 2008 <http://paulspen.com/archives/28 >.


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


Dawson, Paul. “The Function of Critical Theory in Tertiary Creative Writing Programmes.” Southern Review 30.1 (1997): 70-80.

 

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

 

Duke, Charles R., and Sally A. Jacobsen, eds. Reading and Writing Poetry: Successful Approaches for the Student and Teacher. Phoenix: Oryx, 1983.

 

Gargo, Matthew W. Fiction Writing, Theory, Politics, Post-Structuralism, and Progress. 8 Mar. 2009 <http://www.geocities.com/radicalpraxis/fiction/index.html >.


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.

Gordimer, Nadine. “The Essential Gesture: Writers and Responsibility.”  The Granta 15 (1985): 137-150.

 

Green, Chris. “Materializing the Sublime Reader: Cultural Studies, Reader Response, and Community Service in the Creative Writing Workshop.” College English 64.2 (2001): 153-174.

 

Grimes, Tom. “The Workshop’s Evolution & the Writer’s Life.” Writer’s Chronicle 32.1 (Sep. 1999): 19-30.

 

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


Haake, Katharine. What Our Speech Disrupts: Feminism and Creative Writing Studies. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 2000.

 

Harper, Graeme, ed. Teaching Creative Writing. New York: Continuum, 2006.


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

 

Harris, Judith. “Re-Writing the Subject: Psychoanalytic Approaches to Creative Writing and Composition Pedagogy.” College English 63.2 (Nov. 2001): 175-204.

 

Holland, Siobhan, Maggie Butt, Graeme Harper, and Michelene Wandor. 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.

 

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


Freiman, Marcelle. “What do students learn when they do creative writing?” the and is papers: AAWP 2007: 1-14.

 

“Inquiring into the Nexus of Composition Studies and Creative Writing.” College Composition and Communication 51 (1999): 70-95.

Johnson, David M. Word Weaving: A Creative Approach to Teaching and Writing Poetry. Urbana, Ill.: National Council of Teachers of English, 1990.

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

 

Kremers, Carolyn. “Through the Eyes and Ears of Another Culture: Invention Activities and a Writers’ Workshop.” Exercise Exchange 35.5: 3-11.

Kroll, Jeri, and Donna Lee Brien. “Studying for the Future: Training Creative Writing Postgraduates for Life After Degrees.” Arts Education 2.1 (2006): 1-13.

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

Lensmire, Timothy J., and Lisa Satanovsky. “Defense of the Romantic Poet? Writing Workshops and Voice.” Theory into Practice 37. 4 (Autumn 1998): 280-288.


Leonard, Elisabeth Anne. “Assignment #9. A Text Which Engages the Socially Constructed Identity of Its Writer.” College Composition and Communication 48.2 (May 1997): 215-230.


Light, Gregory. “From the personal to the public: Conceptions of creative writing in higher education.” Higher Education 43 (2002): 257-276.


Lim, Shirley Geok-lin. “The Strangeness of Creative Writing: an Institutional Query.” Pedagogy 3.2 (2003): 151-169.


Lodge, David. “Creative Writing: Can It/Should It Be Taught?” Practice of Writing. New York: Penguin, 1997. 171-178.

 

Mayers, Tim. “One Simple Word: From Creative Writing to Creative Writing Studies.” College English 71.3 (Jan. 2009): 217-228.

 

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

 

McFarland, Ron. “An Apologia for Creative Writing.” College English 55.1 (January 1993): 28-45.

 

McFarland, Ron. “Ron McFarland Responds.” College English 56.2 (Feb. 1994): 220-222.

 

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

 

Morton, Donald, and Mas’ud Zavarzadeh. “The Cultural Politics of the Fiction Workshop.” Cultural Critique 11 (Winter 1988-1989): 155-173.

 

Moxley, Joseph, ed. Creative Writing in America: Theory and Pedagogy. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 1989.


Myers, D.G. “On the Reform of Creative Writing.” Teaching Creative Writing in Higher Edu­cation: Anglo-American Perspectives. Ed. Heather Beck. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. 12 Dec. 2008 <http://www-english.tamu.edu/ pers/fac/myers/reform-of-creative-writing.htm >.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Ostrom, Hans. “Undergraduate Creative Writing: The Unexamined Subject.” Writing on the Edge 1.1 (1989): 55-65.

 

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. San Diego, CA. 27 Dec. 1994.

 

Parini, Jay. “Literary Theory and the Culture of Creative Writing.” Some Necessary Angels: Essays on Writing and Politics. New York: Columbia UP, 1997. 231-239.

 

Parris, Peggy Baldwin. “Setting Free the Birds: Heuristic Approaches to the Teaching of Creative Writing at the College Level.” Diss. Drake University, 1983. DA44: 2464A.

 

Pateman, Trevor. “Writing: Some Thoughts on the Teachable and Unteachable in Creative Writing.” Journal of Aesthetic Education 32.3 (Fall 1998): 83-90.

 

Perloff, Marjorie. “’Creative Writing’ among the Disciplines.” MLA Newsletter 38.1 (Spring 2006): 3-4.

 

Prentice, Penelope. “Teaching Creative Writing in the Twenty-First Century: Addressing All the Genres.” Annual Meeting of the College English Association. Buffalo, NY. 5-7 Apr. 1990.

 

Radavich, David. “Comment on ‘An Apologia for Creative Writing’.” College English 56.2 (Feb. 1994): 219-220.

 

Radavich, David. “Creative Writing in the Academy.” Profession (1999):106-112.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Schlee, Ann. “Some Problems of a Creative Writing Class.” Adult Education 55.1 (1982): 43-48.

 

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

 

Smith, Dave. “Local Assays: On Contemporary American Poetry: Notes on Responsibility and the Teaching of Creative Writing.” Local Assays: On Contemporary Poetry. Urbana, IL: U of Illinois P, 1985. 215-228.

 

Smith, Frank. “Myths of Writing.” Language Arts 58 (1981): 792-798. 

 

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

 

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

 

St. Clair, Philip. “A Wilderness with a Map: Teaching the First Course in Creative Writing.” Iowa English Bulletin 35.1 (1987): 43-55.


Stegner, Wallace Earle. On the Teaching of Creative Writing: Responses to a Series of Questions. Ed. Edward Connery Lathem. Hanover, NH: Montgomery Endowment, Dartmouth College, 1988.


Taylor, Debbie. “Can Writing Be Taught?” Mslexia 20 (2004): 12-15.


Teichmann, Sandra Gail. “Comment on ‘An Apologia for Creative Writing’.” College English 56.2 (Feb. 1994): 217-219.


Teleky, Richard. “‘Entering the Silence’: Voice, Ethnicity, and the Pedagogy of Creative Writing.” MELUS 26.1 (Spring 2001): 205-219.


Tomlinson, Barbara. “Cooking, Mining, Gardening, Hunting: Metaphorical Studies Writers Tell About Their Composing Processes.” Metaphor and Symbolic Activity 1 (1986): 57-79.

 

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

 

Vakil, Ardashir. “Teaching Creative Writing.” Changing English 15.2 (Jun. 2008): 157-165.

 

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

 

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

 

Welch, Nancy. “No Apology: Challenging the ‘Uselessness’ of Creative Writing.” JAC 19.1 (Winter 1999): 117-134.

 

Wojciechowska, Maia. “What I Teach in Creative Writing Classes.” The Writer 100.7 (Jul. 1987): 5-6.

 

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

 

Ziegler, Alan. The Writing Workshop. Vol. 2. New York: Teachers and Writers Collaborative, 1984.