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.

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).

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