A Companion to Creative Writing

A Companion to Creative Writing comprehensively considers key aspects of the practice, profession and culture of creative writing in the contemporary world.

• The most comprehensive collection specifically relating to the practices and cultural and professional place of creative writing
• Covers not only the “how” of creative writing, but many more topics in and around the profession and cultural practices surrounding creative writing
• Features contributions from international writers, editors, publishers, critics, translators, specialists in public art and more
• Covers the writing of poetry, fiction, new media, plays, films, radio works, and other literary genres and forms
• Explores creative writing’s engagement with culture, language, spirituality, politics, education, and heritage

Graeme Harper is a Professor of Creative Writing and Director of The Honors College at Oakland University, Michigan. He has also been a Professor and Honorary Professor of Creative Writing in the UK and in Australia. His recent publications include Inside Creative Writing: Interviews with Contemporary Writers (2012) and On Creative Writing (2010). Writing as Brooke Biaz, his works include The Invention of Dying (2012) and Small Maps of the World (2006). Harper is also Editor of New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing.