Creative Writing Innovations ─ Breaking Boundaries in the Classroom

When teachers experiment, students benefit. When students gain confidence to pursue their own literary experiments, creative writing can become a life-changing experience.

With chapters written by experienced teachers and classroom innovators, Creative Writing Innovations builds on these principles to uncover the true potential of the creative writing classroom. Rooted in classroom experience, this book takes teaching beyond the traditional workshop model to explore topics such as multi-media genres, collaborative writing and field-based work, as well as issues of identity. Taken together, this is an essential guide for teachers of creative writing at all levels.

Michael Dean Clark is Associate Professor of Writing at Azusa Pacific University, USA. Formerly an award-winning journalist, his fiction and non-fiction work has appeared in Fast Forward, Relief, Coach's Midnight Diner and a number of other periodicals.

Trent Hergenrader is Assistant Professor of English at the Rochester Institute of Technology, USA. His fiction writing has appeared in such publications as Fantasy & Science Fiction and Best Horror of the Year #1.

Joseph Rein is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin, River Falls, USA. He is the editor of Dispatches from the Classroom and his fiction poetry and essays have appeared in such publications as The Wisconsin Review, Fiction Weekly and Twisted Ink.