Writing Creative Writing: Essays from the Field [Paperback]

Essential and engaging essays about the joys and challenges of creative writing and teaching creative writing by a host of Canadas leading writers.

Writing Creative Writingis filled with thoughtful and entertaining essays on the joys and challenges of creative writing, the complexities of the creative writing classroom, the place of writing programs in the twenty-first century, and exciting strategies and exercises for writing and teaching different genres. Written by a host of Canadas leading writers, including Christian B?k, Catherine Bush, Suzette Mayr, Yvette Nolan, Judith Thompson, and thom vernon, this book is the first of its kind and destined to be a milestone for every creative writing student, teacher, aspirant, and professional.Essential and engaging essays about the joys and challenges of creative writing and teaching creative writing by a host of Canadas leading writers.What a marvelous compendium of ideas, approaches and practices to help guide and reassure us as writers. This book is a must for Canadian writers, aspiring and established.Rishma Dunlopwas an award-winning poet, playwright, essayist, and translator. She was a Professor of Creative Writing and Education at York University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Her publications includeLover Through Departure,Metropolis, andWhite Ink: Poems on Mothers and Motherhood.
Daniel Scott Tysdalis an award-winning writer and professor at the University of Toronto Scarborough. He is the author ofFauxccasional Poems,Predicting the Next Big Advertising Breakthrough Using a Potentially Dangerous Method, and a poetry textbook,The Writing Moment: A Practical Guide to Creating Poems. Daniel lives in Toronto.
Priscila Uppalis an internationally acclaimed poet, prose writer, and playwright. A York University professor and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, she is the author ofOntological Necessities