New Writing Explorations

Researching Creative Writing

Graeme Harper

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9781040338490
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

This book, New Writing Explorations: Researching Creative Writing, investigates creative writing as an area of research, building from a recognition of its qualities as a creative human practice. It presents a critical examination of current methodologies and highlights many of the latest advancements in the field of creative writing studies.

This book's contributors examine writerly knowledge and action, places and spaces, tested methods and an array of associated concepts. Chapters draw not only on critical ideas formed by examining the works of creative writers, but also on a range of individual writing activities and the lively and fluid dynamics we frequently encounter when we seek to use writing for both communication and art. The chapters in this volume provide excellent examples of the many avenues of inquiry seen in both practice-led and critical research in creative writing. This volume is relevant for students and scholars interested in the field of creative writing and cognate fields.

The chapters in the book were originally published as articles and editorials in the New Writing journal. They are accompanied by a new Introduction and Conclusion, as well as a Foreword by award-winning poet and critic, Dan Disney.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Citation Information
• Notes on Contributors
• Foreword
• Introduction: prying with a purpose: the prose poetics of creative writing research
• 1 Performances in contradiction: facilitating a neosophistic creative writing workshop
• 2 Creative writing: a Newtonian thought
• 3 ‘Unconscionable Mystification’?: Rooms, spaces and the prose poem
• 4 Thoughts are creative writing
• 5 Screenwriting studies, screenwriting practice and the screenwriting manual
• 6 Creative writing, as it happens: the case for unpredictability
• 7 The writer and meta-knowledge about writing: threshold concepts in creative writing
• 8 Flight
• 9 Cognitive poetics and creative practice: beginning the conversation
• 10 Structuring empathy
• 11 Creative work as scholarly work
• 12 Why our responses matter
• 13 Shifting the power dynamics in the creative writing workshop: assessing an instructor as participant model
• 14 Creative writing on other planets
• 15 Different ways of descending into the crypt: methodologies and methods for researching creative writing
• 16 Forms of illumination
• 17 Retooling workshops of empire: globalising creative writing with an edge
• 18 New types of intelligence relevant to creative writers
• 19 English-language creative writing in a Chinese context: translation as a supplement
• 20 An agreeable crest: the New Writing 20th anniversary year
• Conclusion: intentional echoes
• Index