College English, Vol. 71, No. 3, January 2009

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• From the Guest Editor

  Kelly Ritter and Stephanie Vanderslice

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• One Simple Word: From Creative Writing to Creative Writing Studies

  Tim Mayers

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  Abstract: Creative writing programs should transform into creative writing studies, a field of scholarly inquiry and research that would have three main strands: pedagogical, historical, and advocacy-oriented. This move would help bridge the gap between literary studies and composition.

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• “To Be Lived”: Theorizing Influence in Creative Writing

  Mary Ann Cain

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  Abstract: As a field, creative writing must reject its traditional image of “uselessness” and realize its anticapitalist, antiprivatizing potential as a creator of public space. In part, this move would involve teaching students to question traditional notions of influence, as well as the modernist concept of the author as a lone,autonomous individual.

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• A House Divided: On the Future of Creative Writing

  Kimberly Andrews

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  Abstract: Reading for creative writers must be viewed as a critical practice, one informed and complicated by context, history, and theory, in part so that they can actively participate in the intellectual community of English studies.

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• RECONSIDERATIONS: Writers Wanted: A Reconsideration of Wendy Bishop

  Patrick Bizzaro

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  Abstract: Reconsideration of the late Wendy Bishop’s work should involve taking seriously her proposal that composition studies turn to the self-reports of writers, including creative writers.

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• OPINION: What We Say When We Don’t Talk about Creative Writing

  Gerald Graff

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  Abstract: English departments must work harder to include creative and critical courses, in part through experiments with pairing them.

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• Reviews: Books on Creative Writing

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  Abstract: Defining Our Terms - Elizabeth Hodges: Reviewed are Keywords in Creative Writing, by Wendy Bishop and David Starkey, and Power and Identity in the Creative Writing Classroom: The Authority Project, edited by Anna Leahy. The “Sticking” Problem: Locating Creative Writing at Home and Abroad - Sarah E. Harris: Reviewed are Creative Writing Studies: Practice, Research, and Pedagogy, edited by Graeme Harper and Jeri Kroll; Teaching Poetry Writing: A Five-Canon Approach, by Tom C. Hunley; and The Author Is Not Dead, Merely Somewhere Else: Creative Writing Reconceived by Michelene Wandor. Creative Writing for Everyone - Megan Fulwiler: Reviewed is The Practice of Creative Writing: A Guide for Students by Heather Sellers.

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• Announcements and Calls for Papers

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