Creative Writing in the Digital Age Theory, Practice, and Pedagogy [Hardcover]

Creative Writing in the Digital Ageexplores the vast array of opportunities that technology provides the Creative Writing teacher, ranging from effective online workshop models to methods that blur the boundaries of genre. From social media tools such as Twitter and Facebook to more advanced software like Inform 7, the book investigates the benefits and potential challenges these technologies present instructors in the classroom. Written with the everyday instructor in mind, the book includes practical classroom lessons that can be easily adapted to creative writing courses regardless of the instructor's technical expertise.

Michael Dean Clarkis Associate Professor of Writing at Azusa Pacific University, USA. Formerly an award-winning journalist, he is an author of fiction and nonfiction focused on loss, grace, and uncommon redemption. His fiction and nonfiction work has appeared inFast Forward, Relief, Coach's Midnight Diner, and elsewhere.

Trent Hergenraderis Assistant Professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology, USA. His academic research connects game-based learning and writing instruction, and his short fiction has appeared in such places asFantasy & Science FictionandBest Horror of the Year #1.

Joseph Reinis Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin???River Falls, USA. His creative and critical work has appeared in such publications asThe Pinch Literary Journal, Laurel ReviewandNew Writing,and he is co-editor of the bookDispatches from the Classroom: Graduate Students on Creative Writing(2011).

???This book should have great value for teachers of creative writing seeking to connect with games, social media, and other digital developments. It also demonstrates how creative practice can animate and inform the Digital Humanities, and makes compelling reading for anyone interested in the present and future of writing.??? ???Stuart Moulthl£,