Writing Creative Writing - by Rishma Dunlop & Daniel Scott Tysdal & Priscila Uppal (Paperback)

About the Book

Essential and engaging essays about the joys and challenges of creative writing and teaching creative writing by a host of Canada's leading writers.

Book Synopsis

Essential and engaging essays about the joys and challenges of creative writing and teaching creative writing by a host of Canada's leading writers.

Review Quotes

Writing Creative Writing is the first Canadian anthology to bring together such a wide-ranging collection of voices on teaching creative writing. This is a book for everyone interested in how we learn to write - students, writers, administrators and creative writing instructors will all find sparkling insights here into the diverse strategies writers use to help each other get better at the craft.

This vital compendium of contemporary writings on pedagogy in the creative writing classroom is essentially a heavy tool belt that will equip anyone for teaching in any genre and at every stage of their career

What a marvelous compendium of ideas, approaches and practices to help guide and reassure us as writers. This book is a must for Canadian writers, aspiring and established.

About the Author

Rishma Dunlop was an award-winning poet, playwright, essayist, and translator. She was a Professor of Creative Writing and Education at York University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Her publications include Lover Through Departure, Metropolis, and White Ink: Poems on Mothers and Motherhood.
Daniel Scott Tysdal is an award-winning writer and professor at the University of Toronto Scarborough. He is the author of Fauxccasional Poems, Predicting the Next Big Advertising Breakthrough Using a Potentially Dangerous Method, and a poetry textbook, The Writing Moment: A Practical Guide to Creating Poems. Daniel lives in Toronto.
Priscila Uppal is an internationally acclaimed poet, prose writer, and playwright. A York University professor and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, she is the author of Ontological Necessities and Cover Before Striking. Her memoir, Projection: Encounters with My Runaway Mother, was shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Prize and a Governor General's Award. Priscila lives in Toronto.