The Creative Writing Compass presents a dynamic navigational instrument for creative writers, providing a method for developing and advancing knowledge of creative writing. Award-winning novelist Graeme Harper explores the many fluid interactions of the imagination and the physical acts of writing.

Preface

Chapter One - Starting Out

Chapter Two - The Quest

Chapter Three - Metaphorically Speaking

Chapter Four - Writing with Risk

Chapter Five - Maps and Other Guides

Chapter Six - Your Navigational Voice

Chapter Seven - Types of Mobility

Chapter Eight - Connections

Chapter Nine - Creative Writing Choices

Chapter Ten - Arriving

Bibliography

Index

Graeme Harper is Professor of Creative Writing and Dean of The Honors College at Oakland University, Michigan, USA. He is Chief Editor of New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing. An award-winning fiction writer, publishing as Brooke Biaz, his recent books are Stimulus, Intention and Process in Creative Writing (2024) and the novel Releasing the Animals (2023).