Description
This book contends that the field of Creative Writing Studies continues to shape its disciplinary identity within the larger discipline of Writing Studies, so too must we continue to theorize new methods and methodologies for examining creative writing as action, artifact, and socio-material phenomenon. Seeking Our Places: Innovations in Creative Writing Studies Research, Methodologies, and Practices contends that as the field of Creative Writing Studies continues to shape its disciplinary identity within the larger discipline of Writing Studies, so too must we continue to theorize new methods and methodologies for examining creative writing as action, artifact, and socio-material phenomenon. In moving toward more Writing Studies based methodologies, Seeking Our Places argues that it is in theorizing, practicing, and reflecting on these methodologies inflected through the act of creative writing that we may discover new ways of regarding creative writing and producing new insights into the field of Creative Writing Studies.
Someplace, No Place, and all Places Between: An Introduction to Innovations
Ben Ristow and Jon Udelson
Story as Connection, Story as Community: Expanding Creative Writing's Reach Through Art-Based Advocacy
Susan V. Meyers
Trans Creativity, Problems of Reading, and Creative Writing Studies
Trace Peterson
Queering Creative Writing Studies
Audrey T. Heffers
Entering the Room: Qualitative Research in Writing Workshops
Erika Luckert
The Meow Wolf Model for the Marketable Creative
Michael Sheehan
Interpretive Quantitative Methods, Applied Literariness, and Creative Writing Studies
Justin Nicholes and David Hanauer
Making Meaning: Content Analysis in Creative Writing Studies
Tanya Perkins
Creative Problem Solving as a Promising Method for Creative Writing Studies Research: Insights from the Creative Humanities Initiative
Brandon McFarlane
Narrative Medicine as Creative Writing Methodology
Janelle Adsit
Creative Writing Studies, Unbounded
Graeme Harper
Tracing Literate Activity: Methodological Moves Toward Sociomaterial Perspectives of Creative Writing
Kevin Roozen
Tracing Literate Activity in Creative Writing Studies
Joyce Walker and Samantha Moe
Beyond Creation: New Materialist Research Strategies for CWS
Christopher Leary
Professional Technical Communication Perspectives in Creative Writing Studies: Deconstructing Creative Writing Guidebooks as Social Artifacts
Sarah Taylor
The Affective Flows of Creative Writing Research: How Do Bespoke Research Assemblages Provide the Methods and Methodologies Needed to Open Up New Possibilities in Creative Writing Research?
Francis Gilbert and Vicky Macleroy
Digging In: Artificial Intelligence and Creative Writing Research
Andrea Delgado, Trent Hergenrader, Juan Carlos Reyes, and Chris Scheidler
Afterword: Maps, Mirrors, Mumblety-Peg, and Mess
Eli Goldblatt
Jon Udelson is an Associate Professor of English at Shenandoah University in Virginia. A fiction writer and academic, his scholarship has appeared in Journal of Creative Writing Studies, New Writing, Kairos, and elsewhere.
Ben Ristow is an Associate Professor at Hobart and William Smith Colleges (New York). His book Craft Consciousness and Artistic Practice in Creative Writing was published by Bloomsbury in 2022.
