Power and Identity in the Creative Writing Classroom

Foreword - Anna Leahy



Part 1: Understanding the Larger Influences



1. Personal Therapeutic Writing vs. Literary Writing - Nancy Kuhl



2. Who Cares-and How: The Value and Cost of Nurturing - Anna Leahy



3. Inspiration, Creativity, and Crisis: The Romantic Myth of the Writer Meets the Contemporary Classroom - Brent Royster



4. Reinventing Writing Classrooms: The Combination of Creating and Composing - Evie Yoder Miller



5. The Double Bind and Stumbling Blocks: A Case Study as an Argument for Authority-Conscious Pedagogy - Carl Vandermeulen



Part 2: The Teacher's Place, Voice, and Style



6. Teaching and Evaluation: Why Bother? - Mary Cantrell



7. Who's the Teacher?: From Student to Mentor - Audrey Petty



8. The Pregnant Muse: Assumptions, Authority, and Accessibility - Rachel Hall



9. Dismantling Authority: Teaching What We Do Not Know - Katharine Haake



Part 3: Course Design



10. Contracts, Radical Revision, Portfolios, and the Risks of Writing - Wendy Bishop



11. An 'A' for Effort: How Grading Policies Shape Courses - Suzanne Greenberg



12. Gender and Authorship: How Assumptions Shape Perceptions and Pedagogies - Susan Hubbard



13. Writing the Community: Service Learning in Creative Writing - Argie Manolis



Part 4: In the Classroom



14. Where Do You Want Me To Sit?: Defining Authority through Metaphor - Cathy Day



15. Duck, Duck, Turkey: Using Encouragement To Structure Workshop Assignments - Mary Swander



16. How To Avoid Workshop Dilemmas: The Use of Myth to Teach Writerly Concepts - Amy Sage Webb



17. Writing in the Shadows: Topics, Models, and Audiences that Focus on Language - Sandy Feinstein



Afterword



The Reason It Is: the Rhyme It Isn't - Graeme Harper and Stephanie Vanderslice