Does the Writing Workshop Still Work? / / ed. by Dianne Donnelly.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Abbott, Keith Kumasen,; Bertolini, Mary Ellen,; Bizzaro, Patrick,; Cain, Mary Ann,; Donnelly, Dianne,; Gross, Philip,; Haake, Katharine,; Harper, Graeme,; Irvine, Colin,; Leahy, Anna,; Maley, Willy,; Mayers, Tim,; Moxley, Joseph,; Perry, Gaylene,; Roe, Sue,; Royster, Brent,; Starkey, David,; Vanderslice, Stephanie,; Wilson, Leslie Kreiner,
• HerausgeberIn: Donnelly, Dianne,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: New Writing Viewpoints
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

This book explores the effectiveness of the workshop in the Creative Writing classroom, and looks beyond the question of whether or not the workshop works to address the issue of what an altered pedagogical model might look like. In visualising what else is possible in the workshop space, the sixteen chapters collected in ‘Does the Writing Workshop Still Work?’ cover a range of theoretical and pedagogical topics and explore the inner workings and conflicts of the workshop model. The needs of a growing and diverse student population are central to the chapter authors’ consideration of non-normative pedagogies. The book is a must-read for all teachers of Creative Writing, as well as for researchers in Creative Writing Studies.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- About the Authors -- Foreword On Experience -- Introduction: If it Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix it; Or Change is Inevitable, Except from a Vending Machine -- SECTION ONE: INSIDE THE WRITING WORKSHOP MODEL -- Chapter 1. Once More to the Workshop: A Myth Caught in Time -- Chapter 2. Workshop: An Ontological Study -- Chapter 3. Small Worlds: What Works in Workshops If and When They Do? -- Chapter 4. Teaching as a Creative Act: Why the Workshop Works in Creative Writing -- Chapter 5. Workshopping and Fiction: Laboratory, Factory, or Finishing School? -- SECTION TWO: ENGAGING THE CONFLICTS -- Chapter 6. Poetry, F(r)iction, Drama: The Complex Dynamics of Audience in the Writing Workshop -- Chapter 7. Engaging the Individual/Social Conflict within Creative Writing Pedagogy -- Chapter 8. Potentially Dangerous: Vulnerabilities and Risks in the Writing Workshop -- Chapter 9. ‘Its fine, I gess’:1 Problems with the Workshop Model in College Composition Courses -- SECTION THREE: THE NON-NORMATIVE WORKSHOP -- Chapter 10. The Creative Writing Workshop in the Two-Year College: Who Cares? -- Chapter 11. Workshopping Lives -- Chapter 12. The Things I Used To Do: Workshops Old and New -- SECTION FOUR: NEW MODELS FOR RELOCATING THE WORKSHOP -- Chapter 13. Re-envisioning the Workshop: Hybrid Classrooms, Hybrid Texts -- Chapter 14. Introducing Masterclasses -- Chapter 15. Wrestling Bartleby: Another Workshop Model for the Creative Writing Classroom -- Chapter 16. ‘A Space of Radical Openness’: Re-Visioning the Creative Writing Workshop -- Afterword Disciplinarity and the Future of Creative Writing Studies