The Cambridge Companion to Creative Writing

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David Morley, Philip Neilsen
Cambridge University Press, Feb 2, 2012 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 222 pages
Creative writing has become a highly professionalized academic discipline, with popular courses and prestigious degree programs worldwide. This book is a must for all students and teachers of creative writing, indeed for anyone who aspires to be a published writer. It engages with a complex art in an accessible manner, addressing concepts important to the rapidly growing field of creative writing, while maintaining a strong craft emphasis, analyzing exemplary models of writing and providing related writing exercises. Written by professional writers and teachers of writing, the chapters deal with specific genres or forms - ranging from the novel to new media - or with significant topics that explore the cutting edge state of creative writing internationally (including creative writing and science, contemporary publishing and new workshop approaches).
 

Contents

1 Introduction
1
Part I Genres and types
9
the three flat tyres and the outer story
11
a new approach to teaching long fiction
24
4 Genre and speculative fiction
37
5 Writing drama
52
6 Poetics and poetry
67
7 Travel writing
87
10 Life writing
133
Part II Topics
151
creative writing and science
153
12 Outside the academy
171
13 Contemporary publishing
181
transglobal and transcultural narratives
196
15 Does that make sense?
201
Further reading
215

8 Creative writing and new media
102
9 Creative translation
118

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About the author (2012)

David Morley is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Warwick. Philip Neilsen is Professor of Creative Writing at the Queensland University of Technology.

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