The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing

This pioneering book introduces students to the practice and art of creative writing and creative reading. It offers a fresh, distinctive and beautifully written synthesis of the discipline. David Morley discusses where creative writing comes from, the various forms and camouflages it has taken, and why we teach and learn the arts of fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction. He looks at creative writing in performance; as public art, as visual art, as e-literature and as an act of community. As a leading poet, critic and award-winning teacher of the subject, Morley finds new engagements for creative writing in the creative academy and within science. Accessible, entertaining and groundbreaking, The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing is not only a useful textbook for students and teachers of writing, but also an inspiring read in its own right. Aspiring authors and teachers of writing will find much to discover and enjoy.

ISBN 0521547547   Pages 290 ISBN13 9780521547543 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Cambridge University Press   Weight (grammes) 484 Imprint Cambridge University Press   Published in Cambridge Format Paperback   Series title Cambridge Introductions to Literature Publication date 10 May 2007   Height (mm) 228 Library of Congress 2006036851   Width (mm) 152 DEWEY 808.042   Spine width (mm) 20 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Tertiary education, Professional / Scholarly

Ch. 1		Introducing creative writing		1
Ch. 2		Creative writing in the world		36
Ch. 3		Challenges of creative writing		64
Ch. 4		Composition and creative writing		88
Ch. 5		Processes of creative writing		125
Ch. 6		The practice of fiction		155
Ch. 7		Creative nonfiction		177
Ch. 8		Writing poetry		194
Ch. 9		Performing writing		215
Ch. 10		Writing in the community and academy		234

'No writer-teacher is better qualified than David Morley to lift the veils on the discipline of Creative Writing. He writes with all his feelings and a richness of metaphor that is beguiling for the general reader, the general writer, and the teacher. The exercises are inspired, growing out of the author's profound understanding of the inviolable connection between good writing and good and various reading. This book will be an inspiration and tool for teachers and writers who, like Morley, understand that the development of writing involves acquiring skills, and that inborn genius benefits from training and understanding.' Professor Michael Schmidt, University of Glasgow

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