A to Z of Creative Writing Methods

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The A to Z of Creative Writing Methods is an alphabetical collection of essays to prompt consideration of method within creative writing research and practice. Almost sixty contributors from a range of writing traditions and across multiple forms and genre are represented in this volume: from poets, essayists, novelists and performance writers, to graphic novelists, illustrators, and those engaged in multi-media writing or writing-related arts activism. Contributors bring to this collection their distinct and diverse literary and cultural contexts, defining, expanding and enacting the methods they describe, and providing new possibilities for creative writing practice. Accessible and provocative, A to Z of Creative Writing Methods lays bare new developments and directions in the field, making it an invaluable resource for the teachers, research students and scholar-practitioners in the field of creative writing studies.

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The collection of essays is an invitation to write by engaging with a syncretic collection of tropes and methods ranging from the use of archives and folklore as launch pads to writing activities to the process of queering texts. It also promotes the unmooring of writing from defined spaces by using concepts such as erasure, nonhuman imaginaries, uncertainty, unknowing and many more. These are exciting approaches to writing, proving that the literary creative process has always been multifaceted and inclusive. The book is a nudge to every person who wants to write creatively. * Lily Rose Tope, University of the Philippines Diliman, Philippines *

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Deborah Wardle has fiction, nonfiction and peer-reviewed articles in Australian and international journals. Deborah teaches at RMIT University and University of Melbourne. Her PhD thesis explores the ways climate fiction expresses the voices of more-than-human entities, particularly groundwater. Her book with Routledge Subterranean Imaginings: Groundwater Narratives is due 2023. Julienne van Loon is Associate Professor in Creative Writing at RMIT University, Melbourne, and Honorary Fellow in Writing at the University of Iowa. Her research interests include feminist literary practice, contemporary narrative fiction and literary value. Publications include The Thinking Woman (2020), Harmless (2014), Beneath the Bloodwood Tree (2008), and Road Story (2005). She is managing editor at TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses, see https://textjournal.scholasticahq.com/ Stayci Taylor is Senior Lecturer at RMIT University in the School of Media and Communication. Her research interests include screenwriting, script development, nonfiction and creative practice. She has published in all of these areas, in both scholarly and creative outlets, and often through the lenses of gender and comedy. She is lead editor of The Palgrave Handbook of Script Development (2021). Francesca Rendle-Short is Professor of Creative Writing in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University. She is interested in a research practice that seeks to subvert normative practices, one focused on ethical enquiry. She is co-founder of non/fictionLab and WrICE (Writers Immersion and Cultural Exchange). Her five books include The Near and the Far (Vol I and II; 2016, 2019) and Bite Your Tongue (2011). Peta Murray is Lecturer in Creative Writing at RMIT University, Melbourne. Her research focus is the role oflanguage and arts-based practices as modes of inquiry and forms of cultural activism. Publications include plays such as Salt (2001), fiction including Indigestion (2010), collaborative, queer and multi-modal works of live art such as vigil/wake (2019), and adventures in the essayesque, Glossalalalararium Pandemiconium (2020). David Carlin is Professor in Media and Communication at RMIT University. Co-founder of WrICE and non/fictionLab, his research interests include essaying and hybrid, collaborative and ecocritical forms and methods. Recent books include The After-Normal: Brief, Alphabetical Essays on a Changing Planet (2019) and 100 Atmospheres: Studies in Scale and Wonder (2019).