Teaching Creative Writing in Canada [Hardcover]

Introduction: On Teaching Creative Writing in Canada without Teaching How to Make Love in a Canoe

Part I Workshopping the (Canadian) Workshop

1. CantLit: (Anglophone) Canadas Anomalous Disinterest in Creative Writing Doctoral Programs

2. The (Funding) Stories We Tell: Faculty Creative Writing as Nationally Funded University Research

3. Can the Workshop Be Saved? Notes from a Writing-School Dropoutand Former Department Chair

4. Origin Stories, Watersheds and Gendered Politics: On Launching a New Creative Writing MFA

5. Postcards from the Edge: On Launching Canadas Most Recent MFA Creative Writing Program from a School of Journalism

6. Why, and How, Literary Prizes Matter

7. Supporting First-Time Workshop Leaders in Large Introductory Courses

Part II The Canadian CW Playground: Writing-as-Knowing (in Canada and beyond)

8. Poetry as Play: Teaching Poetry to Not-Yet-Poets

9. A Writer in Art School: Fostering Interdisciplinary Experiences in Postsecondary Art & Design Education

10. In Tranquillity: Writing through and beyond Ekphrasis

11. Listening Out and In

12. Generous Writing: Teaching the Avant-Garde

Part III Letters Home

13. MFA vs. NYC vs. MBA

14. From the Pool to the Page: What Coaching Swimming Taught Me about Teaching Creative Writing

15. The Climate Crisis in the Crlƒ: