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The Creative Writing Workshop in the 21st Century
Practical Strategies for a Modern Era
The Creative Writing Workshop in the 21st Century
Practical Strategies for a Modern Era
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Description
A critical interrogation of the creative writing workshop model, this collection of essays provides practical suggestions for contemporary approaches to this contentious method and how it might be reimagined. Since the inception of the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1936, the workshop model pioneered there has become the bedrock of creative writing instruction around the world, with much existing scholarship on the subject rightly focusing on matters of inclusivity and social justice or dismissing the workshop altogether. With contributions from senior scholars in the field of creative writing pedagogy and authors ranging from the US, Australia and the UK to China, Workshopping in the 21st Century offers specific, actionable recommendations for ways the model can be reinvigorated. Covering topics such as module design, diversity and inclusion, facilitation and teaching style, assessments, internationality, and the integration of modern technology, each chapter surveys perspectives on the workshop and provides concrete strategies to help instructors and workshop facilitators update and bolster their pedagogical practice.
Table of Contents
1. Toward a New Literary Public: Reconfiguring the Creative Writing Workshop for Non-Majors - Jennifer Pullen (Ohio Northern University, USA)
2. Designing and running a UK master's programme in creative writing - Matthew Cheeseman (University of Derby, UK)
3. Revising Purpose: How Workshop Can Create Supportive Communities for Young Writers - Alexa Garvoille (North Carolina School of Science & Mathematics, USA)
4. Weird in A Good Way: Helping Aspiring Writers Find Their People and Build Community - Angie Abdou (Athabasca University, Canada)
5. Against the Conveyor Belt: Narrative Medicine as Rehumanizing the Creative Writing Workshop - Caleb Lee González (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, USA) & Janelle Adsit (Cal Poly Humboldt, Germany)
6. Varieties of Feedback with a Unifying Course Project - Anna Leahy (Chapman University, USA)
7. Failure and Workshopping; or Killing Butterflies in the Classroom - Shady Cosgrove (University of Wollongong, Australia)
8. Creative Writing as Narrative Design - Trent Hergenrader (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)
9. Generative AI in the Poetry Workshop - David Devanny (Falmouth University, UK)
10. No Such Thing as a Final Draft: the Effects of Always Framing Student Work as “In Progress” and Never “Finished” - Adrian Markle (Falmouth University, UK)
11. Getting Political with Craft - Jon Udelson (Shenandoah University, USA)
12. Wang Anyi's Fiction Workshop: Basic Methods and Principles - Liu Weidong (Wenzhou University, China) & Xiao Wenwen (Macau University of Science and Technology, China)
13. Writers Get in Trouble: Encouraging Risk-taking Through Assessment Design in the Creative Writing Studio - Sreedhevi Iyer (RMIT University, Australia) & Bonny Cassidy (RMIT University, Australia)
Index
Product details
| Published | 19 Mar 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 256 |
| ISBN | 9781350497405 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 2 bw illus |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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