Retooling workshops of empire: globalising creative writing with an edge

Abstract

ABSTRACT The creative writing workshop has been questioned as the appropriate, signature pedagogy in the recent years more than ever for various reasons. While the discussions around the workshop reveal to us the consequences as well as the limitations of the traditional workshop, the pedagogy continues to dominate the teaching of creative writing not only in the United States but also around the world where creative writing programmes are burgeoning at a fast pace. In this context, it is pertinent to ask what kind of writing the workshop is perpetuating in other parts of the world where the workshop has been accepted as the default creative writing pedagogy, and what more those programmes can, and should, do to have an edge.