Can Creative Writing Really Be Taught?

Part 1: Can It Really Be Taught? Influential Essays Revisited by Their Authors

Introduction. Lore Past, Present, and Future: The Tenth Anniversary of Can Creative Writing Really Be Taught? (Stephanie Vanderslice, University of Central Arkansas, USA)

1. (Re)Figuring the Future: Lore, Creative Writing Studies, and Institutional Histories (Tim Mayers, Millersville University, USA)
2. Against Reading, 2: Or, Writing Starts Here Reconsidered (Katherine Haake, California State University Northridge, USA)
3. Revisiting Charming Tyrants and Faceless Facilitators: The Lore of Teaching Identities in Creative Writing (Ann Cain, Indiana University Purdue, Fort Wayne, USA)
4. "It's such a good feeling": Self-Esteem, the Growth Mindset, and Creative Writing (Anna Leahy, Chapman University, USA)
5. Finding Truth in the Gaps: A Hybrid Text (Patrick Bizzaro, Indiana University, USA)
6. Box Office Poison: The Influence of Writers in Films on Writers (in Graduate Programs) (Wendy Bishop, formerly of Florida State University, USA and Stephen Armstrong, Dixie State University St. George, USA)

Part 2: The Future of Creative Writing Lore: New Voices, New Challenges
7. The Traces of Certain Collisions: Contemporary Writing and Old Tropes (Jen Webb, University of Canberra, Australia)
8. Lore 2.0: Creative Writing as History (Phil Sandick, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
9. "We Don't Need No Creative Writing Here": Black Cultural Capital, Social (In)Justice, and the Devaluing of Creativity in Higher Education (Tonya Hegemin, Medgar Evers College, City University of New York, USA)
10. Genre Fiction, and Games, and Fan Fiction! Oh My!: Competing Realities in Creative Writing Classrooms (Trent Hergenrader, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)
11. Disability Culture and Creative Writing Pedagogies: When Having Fun Together is Radical Practice (Petra Kuppers, University of Michigan, USA)
12. Polemics Against Polemics: Reconsidering Didacticism in Creative Writing (Janelle Adsit, Humboldt State University, USA)
13. "It's My Story and I'll Revise if I Want To": Rethinking Authorship Through Collaborative Workshop Practices (Joseph Rein, University of Wisconsin, River Falls, USA)
14. Toward a Digital Historiography of Creative Writing Programs in Our Millennium (Ben Ristow, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, USA)
15. Investigating Creative Writing: Challenging Obstacles to Empirical Research (Greg Light, Northwestern University, USA)
16. Creative Writing with Godzilla: Welcoming the Monster to your Creative Writing Classroom (Graeme Harper, Oakland University, USA)
17. Myths, Mirrors, and Metaphors: The Education of the Creative Writing Teacher (Rebecca Manery, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, USA)

Index