New Writing Explorations

Graeme Harper is Editor of New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing. He is author of such books as Critical Approaches to Creative Writing (2018) and Creative Writing Analysis (2022) and, as Brooke Biaz, the novel Releasing the Animals (2023) and the forthcoming Robots, among many others.

• Foreword Introduction: Prying with Intent: The Prose Poetics of Creative Writing Research 1. Performances in Contradiction: Facilitating a Neosophistic Creative Writing Workshop 2. Creative Writing: A Newtonian Thought 3. ‘Unconscionable Mystification’?: Rooms, Spaces and the Prose Poem 4. Thoughts are creative writing 5. Screenwriting studies, screenwriting practice and the screenwriting manual 6. Creative writing, as it happens: the case for unpredictability 7. The writer and meta-knowledge about writing: threshold concepts in creative writing 8. Flight 9. Cognitive poetics and creative practice: beginning the conversation 10. Structuring empathy 11. Creative work as scholarly work 12. Why our responses matter 13. Shifting the power dynamics in the Creative Writing workshop: assessing an instructor as participant model 14. Creative writing on other planets 15. Different ways of descending into the crypt: methodologies and methods for researching creative writing 16. Forms of illumination 17. Retooling workshops of empire: globalising creative writing with an edge 18. New types of intelligence relevant to creative writers 19. English-language creative writing in a Chinese context: translation as a supplement 20. An Agreeable Crest: The New Writing 20th Anniversary Year Conclusion: Intentional Echoes