Creative writing innovations: breaking boundaries in the classroom

Introduction: Creative writing innovations / Michael Dean Clark, Trent Hergenrader, and Joseph Rein

Part 1: Rethinking the workshop

Notes toward an inventive, process-oriented pedagogy for introductory multigenre creative writing courses / Tim Mayers

The unworkshop / Graeme Harper

The gum beneath God's shoe: A testimony in favor of the sequence or series graduate workshop / Derrick Harriell

Part 2: Expanding genre

The empathy project: A research assignment for fiction writing students / Rachel Haley Himmelheber

Musico-literary miscegenations: Word and sound relationships in creative writing pedagogy / Hazel Smith

The poetry of music, the music of poetry: An annotated syllabus / Tom C. Hunley

Words with borders, projects without: Screenwriting, collaboration, and the workshop / Joseph Rein and Kyle McGinn

Sequential experiences: Course design as resistance in creative nonfiction / Michael Dean Clark

Part 3: Creative Collaborations

Collaborative story writing and the question of influence / Mary Ann Cain

Steampunk Rochester: An interdisciplinary, location-based, collaborative world building project / Trent Hergenrader

Place-based pedagogy and creative writing as a fieldwork course / Janelle Adsit

Our town: Teaching creative writing students to love research and collaboration / Cathy Day

For WB: When our students write us / Katharine Haake

Part 4: Identity and the creative writing classroom

Radical imperfection / Tonya C. Hegamin

Gender identity and the creative writing classroom / Ching-In Chen

Pedagogy and authority in teaching The Waste Land: What we do with authorial voices and the postcolonial body in the writing workshop / Prageeta Sharma.