Marking the tenth anniversary of the New Writing Viewpoints series, this new book takes the concept of an edited collection to its extreme, pushing the possibilities of scholarship and collaboration. All authors in this book, including those who contributed to Power and Identity in the Creative Writing Classroom, which launched the series ten years ago, are proof that creative writing matters, that it can be rewarding over the long haul and that there exist many ways to do what we do as writers and as teachers. This book captures a wide swathe of ideas on pedagogy, on programs, on the profession and on careers.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

PEDAGOGY

1. Cathy Day, Anna Leahy and Stephanie Vanderslice: Where Are We Going in Creative Writing Pedagogy?

2. Anna Leahy and Larissa Szporluk: Good Counsel: Creative Writing, the Imagination, and Teaching

3. Sandy Feinstein, Suzanne Greenberg, Susan Hubbard, Brent Royster and Anna Leahy: Writerly Reading in the Creative Writing Course

PROGRAMS

4. Lia Halloran, Claudine Jaenichen and Anna Leahy: Text(ure), Modeling, Collage: Creative Writing and Arts Pedagogy

5. Anna Leahy, Leslie Pietrzyk, Mary Swander and Amy Sage Webb: More than the Sum of Our Parts: Variety in Graduate Programs

6. Katharine Haake, Anna Leahy and Argie Manolis: The Bold and the Beautiful: Rethinking Undergraduate Models

7. James P. Blaylock, Douglas Dechow, Anna Leahy and Jan Osborn: The Program Beyond the Program

THE PROFESSION

8. Dianne Donnelly, Tom C. Hunley, Anna Leahy, Tim Mayers, Dinty W. Moore and Stephanie Vanderslice: Creative Writing (Re)Defined

9. Rachel Haley Himmelheber, Anna Leahy, Julie Platt and James Ryan: Terms and Trends: Creative Writing and the Academy

CAREERS

10. Mary Cantrell, Rachel Hall, Anna Leahy and Audrey Petty: Peas in a Pod: Trajectories of Educations and Careers

11. Nicole Cooley, Kate Greenstreet, Nancy Kuhl and Anna Leahy: The First Book

12. Karen Craigo and Anna Leahy: Taking the Stage, Stage Fright, Center Stage: Careers Over Time

CONCLUSION

13. Anna Leahy: Political, Practical, and Philosophical Considerations for the Future

CONTRIBUTORS' NOTES

Anna Leahy is Associate Professor of English, Associate Director of the MFA in Creative Writing, and Director of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity at Chapman University, USA. She has published widely on creative writing pedagogy, as well as creative non-fiction and poetry. She is the editor of TAB: The Journal of Poetry & Poetics.