The Cambridge Introduction To Creative Writing

This pioneering book introduces students to the practice and art of creativewriting and creative reading. It offers a fresh distinctive and beautifullywritten s... » 

This pioneering book introduces students to the practice and art of creativewriting and creative reading. It offers a fresh distinctive and beautifullywritten synthesis of the discipline. David Morley discusses where creativewriting comes from the various forms and camouflages it has taken and why weteach and learn the arts of fiction poetry and creative nonfiction. He looksat creative writing in performance as public art as visual art as eliterature and as an act of community. As a leading poet critic and awardwinning teacher of the subject Morley finds new engagements for creativewriting in the creative academy and within science. Accessible entertainingand groundbreaking The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing is not onlya useful textbook for students and teachers of writing but also an inspiringread in its own right. Aspiring authors and teachers of writing will find muchto discover and enjoy. «