Our publications

Our publishing programme includes student guides, professional how-to books, and monographs. We will usually publish each title both in e-book and print form.

For a list of our publications – including forthcoming and published publications – please click here: Publications.

For fuller information on our 2012 programme, please click here:  2012 CWS publications.

Title Information

Rethinking Creative Writing in Higher Education: ‘This is a brave, serious, passionate and entertaining book’ -  Dr Steve May, Head of Department, Creative Writing, Bath Spa University. In this passionate, iconoclastic, survey of Creative Writing as an academic discipline, Stephanie Vanderslice provides a provocative critique of existing practice. She challenges enduring myths surrounding creative writing – not least, that writers learn most from workshops. Through case studies of best practice from America and elsewhere, Vanderslice provides a vision of change, showing how undergraduate and postgraduate programs can be reformed to re-engage with contemporary culture. For further information, please click here: Rethinking Creative Writing NBI.

Creative Writing: Writers on Writing: this anthology brings together eight original literary works by eight authors. Each work is accompanied by a reflective commentary written by its author. The commentaries in Creative Writing: Writers on Writing are designed to provide models for discussion and analysis. Creative Writing: Writers on Writing thus combines literary appeal with critical insight and academic support. For further information, please click here: Creative Writing NBI May 2012.

Teaching Creative Writing: Practical Approaches is designed to showcase practical approaches developed by practitioners in the ever-growing community of writers in higher education. Aimed at enabling those who teach the subject to review, borrow, and adapt ideas, the emphasis throughout is on diversity. Contributions from an international team of writers cover a variety of forms and genres and include traditional and innovative components of creative writing courses. For further information, please click here: Teaching creative writing NBI (ppt).

Researching Creative Writing: The development of creative writing as a discipline brings with it an obligation to contribute to the production of knowledge. As a consequence, a considerable volume of work classified as research – especially doctoral degrees in creative writing – is now being produced. However, there is a lack of consensus over what constitutes research in this discipline. Approaches are sometimes ad hoc.  Though there is a growing body of published material on creative arts research, much of it derived from visual or performing arts, this is not always readily applicable to writing. Researching Creative Writing:

  • outlines the key values, logics and epistemological preliminaries of research;
  • provides information about best practice in the creative research paradigm;
  • explicates key methodological techniques for conducting research in, through and for writing;
  • provide guidance on the construction of sound research projects that result in defensible outputs and original contributions to knowledge.

For further information, please click here: Researching Creative Writing NBI 002.

Studying Creative Writing, edited by Sharon Norris, is a student guide. It explains how courses work, what they require from students, how students can make the most of opportunities and achieve success, and where creative courses lead next. Topics covered include: the skills required on creative writing courses; reading other writers’ work; making the best use of learning opportunities, especially workshops and online learning; how to present your work; writing skills, especially pre-writing and rewriting; assessment, including reflective or critical commetaries; and what happens next – moving on from a creative writing course and employing one’s writing and transferable skills.

For further information on this publication, please click here: Studying Creative Writing 002.