The Scholarship of Creative Writing Practice - 9781350291034

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

The Scholarship of Creative Writing PracticeBeyond Craft, Pedagogy, and the Academy\nAuthor(s): Marshall Moore, Sam Meekings\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781350291034, 978-1350291034\nSynopsis\nThe first study to explore deeply and intimately the complex and multifaceted nature of creative writing practice, The Scholarship of Creative Writing and Practice offers a new route in scholarly inquiry for creative writing studies, probing beyond pedagogical methods (with which most of the fields scholarship is occupied) to explore the writing life as it is experienced by a wealth of international writer/academics. \n\n With academic creative writing programs beginning to adopt a more pragmatic, industry-focused stance, students of writing increasingly need and expect to complete their degrees moderately prepared to monetize the skills they have learned so there is now more than ever a great responsibility .