{"title":"The oppressions of ‘creativity’? Equity and power in emergent global discourses of the Creative Writing (SL) field","authors":"Dan Disney","doi":"10.1080/14790726.2022.2116052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790726.2022.2116052","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In previous papers, I have sought to usher Creative Writing in English into Literary Studies contexts in Korea by responding to rhetorical questions, such as “[h]ow to begin to feel like ourselves in a language we do not quite feel at home in?” (Disney 2011: 7) and, erroneously, “how might [students] do something materially akin to [western] canonical texts set before them” (Disney 2014: 3). On reflection, and after more than a decade in Korea, it is wholly apparent just how uncritically these questions centralize English and, therein, my own unchecked entitlement. Both questions remain as if ethically indifferent to the inherent inter-linguistic, trans-cultural power relations at play within Creative Writing in Non-Native Language contexts (herewith, “CW[SL]”). When calling our attention to the fact that “there is something amoral about teaching English Creative Writing in Asia” (52), writer, researcher, and educator Xu Xi issues a direct challenge: how are native-speaking English-language writer-scholars to be more than unwitting avatars of privilege, performing vectors of dominance (Ritzer 204) in a first language among non-native language-learning writer-students? One suspects answers may well be located inside languages other than English.","PeriodicalId":43222,"journal":{"name":"New Writing-The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing","volume":"20 1","pages":"288 - 297"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42938695","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Destructive writing: breaking texts to build texts","authors":"Ashley Bullen-Cutting","doi":"10.1080/14790726.2022.2116051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790726.2022.2116051","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Uncreativity and plagiarism have long been stinging words that can end careers, but are there ways to ethically use and not abuse the work of others? Destructive Writing is a writing strategy that acknowledges the friction and freedom of this practice, a practice that exalts in the fact that words have weight and attempts to shoulder this burden to new and unfamiliar heights. To the Destructive Writer, all stories and words are valuable and appreciated materials to be used again and again, often divorced of their original meaning to both bring attention to new concerns as well as dust-off texts that may have slipped into obscurity. At its heart, it is a mode and classification of writing that defies conventionality and the idea of a traditional author.","PeriodicalId":43222,"journal":{"name":"New Writing-The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing","volume":"20 1","pages":"281 - 287"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41989888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Autobiography matters: on swallowing kerosene and school bullying in Lebanon","authors":"Sleiman El Hajj","doi":"10.1080/14790726.2022.2098342","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790726.2022.2098342","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This critically informed autobiographical essay draws on its author’s experiences of youth bullying to frame its discussion of the role of patriarchy in spawning new generations of bullies in Lebanon, and in shaping the queer perceptions that portend, and foment, the dynamics of bullying as a long-standing practice in Lebanese schools. I show how ‘queer’ in this context is a contingency not strictly mandated by same-sex inclination or desire, a reality examined in my lived narrative, and similarly evidenced by the proliferation of bullying testimonies in my students’ recent memoirs (2018–2022). The healing potential, and limitations, of life writing are also examined.","PeriodicalId":43222,"journal":{"name":"New Writing-The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing","volume":"20 1","pages":"218 - 231"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45540544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Workshopping failure pedagogy for creative writing studies","authors":"Wally Suphap","doi":"10.1080/14790726.2022.2106246","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790726.2022.2106246","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article explores how creative writing studies might draw from elements of writing studies' pedagogy to better understand and improve how failure is conceived of and taught. The author identifies significant magnifiers of failure encounters under the traditional workshop model (as compared to a typical composition course) and proposes a series of zones of mediation aimed at neutralizing, counteracting, and reversing the effects of these magnifiers.","PeriodicalId":43222,"journal":{"name":"New Writing-The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing","volume":"20 1","pages":"244 - 258"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46186214","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fear","authors":"Haris C. Adhikari","doi":"10.1080/14790726.2022.2098983","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790726.2022.2098983","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43222,"journal":{"name":"New Writing-The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing","volume":"20 1","pages":"243 - 243"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46478067","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Writing creatively to re-story the experience of waiting","authors":"Joanne Yoo","doi":"10.1080/14790726.2022.2098982","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790726.2022.2098982","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Memories call out to us from our subconscious, revealing the stories that have yet to be told. This paper explores the memories of stories that resonate with the experience of waiting in middle age. It is written as a personal essay to capture the complex and nuanced emotions evoked by the aging process. Middle age can be felt as a vacuous space since many of life’s major milestones have already been met. Increased responsibilities can further trigger a mindless busyness that causes us to drift. We may subsequently wait mechanically and without purpose, as we drift from one extrinsic goal to another. Alternatively, we can learn how to wait with faith and hope as we hold out for what contains intrinsic value. Crafting our experiences of waiting through aesthetic language and literary works can help us to redefine waiting through a more receptive, vibrant, and growth-evoking lens so that it becomes a space for savouring life’s richness.","PeriodicalId":43222,"journal":{"name":"New Writing-The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing","volume":"20 1","pages":"232 - 242"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46417831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Forms of illumination","authors":"G. Harper","doi":"10.1080/14790726.2022.2099071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790726.2022.2099071","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43222,"journal":{"name":"New Writing-The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing","volume":"19 1","pages":"251 - 252"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44465690","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Helix: fantasia on a theme of possibility","authors":"Philip Emery","doi":"10.1080/14790726.2022.2076885","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790726.2022.2076885","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT An essay, part retrospective part prospectus, focusing on a production of an experimental stage drama using and innovating techniques of dramaturgical improvisation conflating drama and music. The essay uses extracts from the play to analyse and demonstrate the techniques discussed. Reviews of the play and its adaptation into prose, and reminiscences from participants also help contextualise the production.","PeriodicalId":43222,"journal":{"name":"New Writing-The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing","volume":"20 1","pages":"147 - 166"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41855511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Feeling into empathic poetry … through the prison poems of Mahvash Sabet","authors":"April-Rose Geers","doi":"10.1080/14790726.2022.2076886","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790726.2022.2076886","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this essay, I offer a response to conclusions in affect theory that empathy inspired by the reading of a text is unlikely to result in direct action for change. I balance my understanding of empathy and activism in poetry with Lévinasian theories of ethical relationality and moral responsibility. I discuss the unique quality of a collection of prison poems by Persian poet and Bahá'í leader Mahvash Sabet, revealing her remarkable acts of compassion for her fellow prisoners. I explore how her poems awakened my own voice as a poet and an advocate, taking into account the problematic power hierarchies of geographical distance and cultural difference. Finally, I reflect on the way empathic poetry can provide a shared language capable of reaching across geographical and cultural divides.","PeriodicalId":43222,"journal":{"name":"New Writing-The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing","volume":"20 1","pages":"204 - 217"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41866355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unbound potential: identity as a process understood through creative writing","authors":"Eleni Duret, Shana Pies","doi":"10.1080/14790726.2022.2076887","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790726.2022.2076887","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The identity transition from high school student to high school graduate holds particular uncertainties for students. The purpose of this narrative research study, co-constructed by a high school Creative Writing teacher and doctoral candidate, is to better understand how high school students engage creatively with their own identity and then communicate such engagement through creative writing. Considering the current climate of a global pandemic, national racial unrest and an election year (2020 presidential election), this research highlights the iterative, nuanced and complex narratives of adolescent identity in a time of deep uncertainty, particularly for soon-to-be high school graduates at an urban high school.","PeriodicalId":43222,"journal":{"name":"New Writing-The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing","volume":"20 1","pages":"123 - 134"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47525904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}