Experienced writing teacher Hazel Smith demystifies the process of creative writing, providing exercises and examples to show how it can be systematically learnt.

Hazel Smith is Senior Research Fellow in the School of Creative Communication, University of Canberra, Co-leader of the Sonic Communications Research Group and Deputy Director of the University of Canberra Centre for Writing. She founded the creative writing program at the University of New South Wales. She is author of Hyperscapes in the Poetry of Frank O'Hara and co-author of Improvisation, Hypermedia and the Arts Since 1945. She has published two books of poetry, two CDs of performance work and numerous multimedia and hypermedia works.

Preface
Introduction
Part 1: Introductory strategies
Chapter 1: Playing with language, running with referents
Chapter 2: Genre as a moveable feast
Chapter 3: Working out with structures
Chapter 4: Writing as recycling
Chapter 5: Narrative, narratology, power
Chapter 6: Dialoguing
Part 2: Advanced strategies
Chapter 7: Postmodern f(r)ictions
Chapter 8: Postmodern poetry, avant-garde poetics
Chapter 9: The invert, the cross-dresser, the fictocritic
Chapter 10: Tongues, talk and technologies
Chapter 11: New media travels
Chapter 12: Mapping worlds, moving cities
Conclusion: The ongoing editor
Acknowledgments
Index