About the Book
This glossary collates and summarizes over fifty recent developments in methods research within the discipline of creative writing, enabling readers to understand the different methodologies available before inviting them to implement them and extend their own practices. Accessible and provocative in encouraging readers to reflect on how they practice and create what they do, each entry uses carefully constructed apparatus to introduce the reader to these exciting new approaches:
-A descriptive summary that offers a clear definition of each term
-A short essay contextualizing the approach, mapping out the scholarly and literary territory surrounding it, presenting cases studies and suggesting generative ways of knowing, doing, practicing or creating using that method
-further reading Providing introductions to key conversations in creative writing methodology, A to Z of Creative Writing Methods also offers a selection and treatment of topics and subject matter, authorship and references, that emphasize and celebrate diversity and intersectionality, as well as the exploring the present-day concerns, preoccupations, limits, and possibilities of different approaches. Not exhaustive but designed to be experimental - offering hypothesis, testing, and generating further inquiry by readers - this book lays bare developments which may otherwise have remained relatively fugitive in the pages of journals, making it an invaluable resource for the field of creative writing studies.
About the Author:
Deborah Wardle has recently graduated as a doctoral student in Creative Writing at RMIT University. Her short story 'Love Letters' was shortlisted for the Josephine Ulrick Prize in 2016. She teaches Creative Writing at University of Melbourne and Federation University, Ballarat. She relishes her 'long apprenticeship' in the art of writing stories that reflect human and non-human responses to global warming.
Julienne van Loon is a Vice Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow at RMIT University. She is the author of the novels Road Story (2005), Beneath the Bloodwood Tree (2008) and Harmless (2013) as well as the nonfiction work, The Thinking Woman (2019). She is an editor at the leading scholarly journal TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Programs.
Stayci Taylor is an Industry Fellow with the Media Program in the School of Media and Communication. Since attaining her PhD in 2016, Stayci has accrued a track record of over 20 scholarly publications, as well as co-editing two special journal issues, while maintaining her professional practice as a screenwriter for film and television.
Francesca Rendle-Short is Associate Dean Writing and Publishing at RMIT University. She is interested in a research practice that seeks to subvert normative practices; she is particularly interested in championing a queer and LGBTQI point of view. Her books include
Bite Your Tongue and
Imago, and the anthologies
The Near and The Far and
The Near and The Far Vol 2 (2016, 2019), and
Press: 100 Love Letters (2017). She is one of the initiators and supervisors of the RMIT PRS Asia (Practice Research Symposium), a PhD creative writing program based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam with a program of students from currently Singapore, Vietnam, Philippines, and Hawaii.
Peta Murray is a Vice-Chancellor's Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at RMIT University. Her best-known play is
Wallflowering. Other plays include
Salt and
The Keys to the Animal Room. Critical writing includes a chapter in
Creative Manoeuvres: Writing, Making, Being (2014), and articles for TEXT, Axon, and New Writing. Her current focus is the performable essay.
David Carlin is Professor of Creative Writing and Co-Director of the non/fictionLab at RMIT University. His books include The After-Normal: Brief, Alphabetical Essays on a Changing Planet (2019), 100 Atmospheres: Studies in Scale and Wonder (2019), The Abyssinian Contortionist (2015), Our Father Who Wasn't There (2010), and the anthologies The Near and the Far, Vols 1&2 (2016, 2019). His essays have been published widely; he has written and directed for film, theatre, circus and radio. David is Co-Chair of NonfictioNOW.
