
The Place and the Writer
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Marshall Moore and Sam Meekings challenge areas of perceived wisdom that persist in the field of creative writing, including aesthetics and politics in institutionalized creative writing; the process of workshopping; tuition and talent; anxiety in the classroom; unifying theory and lore; and teaching creative writing in languages other than English.
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UK, and his current research focuses on the disconnects between the publishing industry and the academy, and on the mythology and lore that surround creative practice and pedagogy.
Sam Meekings is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Northwestern University in Qatar. He is the
author of Under Fishbone Clouds (2011, called 'a poetic evocation of the country and its people' by the New York Times), The Book of Crows (2012), and The Afterlives of Dr Gachet (2018). He has a PhD in creative writing from Lancaster University, UK, and has taught writing at NYU (Global Campus) and the University of Chichester, UK. He researches issues of identity in grief narratives, and the practices and processes of digital storytelling.
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2. Introduction by Graeme Harper (University of Oakland, USA)
3. Toward a Unified Field: The Complications of Lore and Global Context by Stephanie Vanderslice (University of Central Arkansas, USA)
4. Ukubhukuda: 1 Not Sinking in Language but Swimming by Bronwyn Law-Viljoen and Phillippa Yaa de Villiers (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)
5. Workshopping to Better Writing and Understanding by Dai Fan and Li Ling (Sun Yat-Sen University, China)
6. Protagonizing the L2: the Case for "Life Writing" in Creative Writing (SL) Contexts by Dan Disney (Sogang University, Korea)
7. From the Shadow of a Myth to an Academic Subject: Teaching Writing from a Cognitive Base by Nora Ekstrom (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
8. Scenes of Judgement: Teaching Narrative Form in Literary Memoir by Jonathan Taylor (University of Leicester, UK)
9. Tuition and the Individual Talent by Ross Gibson (University of Canberra, Australia)
10. Creative Portfolios: Adapting AWP Goals for EFL Creative Writing Courses in Japan by Holly Thompson (Yokohama City University, Japan)
11. Through the Looking Glass and Back Again: Writing Reflectively in Creative Writing by Maria Taylor (De Montfort University, UK)
12. Teacher Lore and Pedagogy in Creative Writing Courses in Poland:A Brief History and Practices That Work by Hanna Sieja-Skrzypulec (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
13. Historical and Pedagogical Dimension of Creative Writing in Greece: From Conventional to Open and Distance-Learning Education by Triantafyllos Kotopoulos (University of Western Macedonia), Sophie Iakovidou (Democritus University of Thrace), and Iordanis Koumasidis (Hellenic Open University)
14. An American Walks into a Bar (with her British Creative Writing Students) by Lania Knight (University of Gloucestershire, UK)
15. Teaching Chinese-Language Creative Writing in Hong Kong: Three Case Studies by James Shea (Hong Kong Baptist University)
16. Playing Catch-Up: Finding a Voice for Creative Writing in Brazil by Bernardo Bueno (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
17. Teaching Creative Writing in a Threatened Language by Rúnar Vignisson (University of Iceland)
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