Can Creative Writing Really Be Taught?

Revised and updated throughout, this 10th-anniversary edition of Can Creative Writing Really Be Taught? is a significantly expanded guide to key issues and practices in creative writing teaching today. Challenging the myths of creative writing teaching, experienced and up-and-coming teachers explore what works in the classroom and workshop and what does not. Now brought up-to-date with new issues that have emerged with the explosion of creative writing courses in higher education, the new edition includes: Guides to and case studies of workshop practice Discussions on grading and the myth of the easy A Explorations of the relationship between reading and writing A new chapter on creative writing research A new chapter on games, fan-fiction and genre writing New chapters on identity and activism