Does the Writing Workshop Still Work?

Dianne Donnelly is the recipient of multiple teaching, scholarship, and writing awards and has published articles and short stories in a number of venues. She is also a frequent presenter at conferences on the subject of creative writing theory and pedagogy and the emergence of creative writing studies. She holds a PhD in English and teaches creative writing at the University of South Florida and Eckerd College.

• Foreword - Graeme HarperIntroduction: ‘If it Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix it,’ Or ‘Change is Inevitable—Except from a Vending Machine.’ - Dianne DonnellySection One: Inside the Writing Workshop Model1. Once More to the Workshop: A Myth Caught in Time - Stephanie Vanderslice2. Workshop: An Ontological Study - Patrick Bizzaro3. Small Worlds: What Works in the Workshop if and When They Do - Philip Gross4. Teaching as a Creative Act: Why the Workshop Works in Creative Writing - Anna Leahy5. Workshopping and Fiction: Laboratory, Factory, or Finishing School? - Willy MaleySection Two: Engaging the Conflicts6. Poetry, F(r)iction, Drama: The Complex Dynamics of Audience in the Writing Workshop - Tim Mayers7. Engaging the Individual/Social Conflict within Creative Writing Workshops - Brent Royster8. Potentially Dangerous: Vulnerabilities and Risks in the Writing Workshop - Gaylene Perry9. 'Its fine, I guess’: Problems with Peer Review and What These Indicate about the Status of the Workshop Model in College Composition Courses - Colin IrvineSection Three: The Non-Normative Workshop10. The Writing Workshop in the Two-Year College: Who Cares? - David Starkey11. Workshopping Lives - Mary Ellen Bertolini12. The Things I Used to Do: Workshops Old and New - Keith Kumasen AbbottSection Four: New Models for Relocating the Workshop13. Re-envisioning the Workshop: Hybrid Classrooms, Hybrid Texts - Katharine Haake14. Introducing Masterclasses - Sue Roe15. Wrestling Bartleby: Another Workshop Model for the Creative Writing Classroom - Leslie Wilson16. ‘A Space of Radical Openness’: Re-visioning the Creative Writing Workshop - Mary Ann CainAfterword: Disciplinarity and the Future of Creative Writing Studies - Joseph Moxley

A remarkable new collection of essays about the theory, practice, design, and reinvention of peer-review components in writing-courses. The expertise and range of experience represented by the contributors is astonishing. This is a bountiful offering indeed.