Creative Writing: Writers On Writing (creative Writing Studies)

Creative Writing: Writers on Writing anthologises original literary work by eight contemporary authors - Amal Chatterjee, Colm Breathnach, Fred D’Aguiar, Jane Draycott, Philip Gross, Kathryn Heyman, Sabyn Javeri, and Emily Raboteau. Dealing with birth and death, love and ambition, domestic drama and foreign adventure, they take the reader to the country (Ireland, Guyana, England) and to the city (Delhi, Karachi, New York and Prague). The pieces are accompanied by reflective essays in which the authors explore the creative process behind the writing. For readers, the essays provide insights into the works themselves; for writers, they provide insights into literary craft; and for students on creative writing courses, they provide diverse models of how to discuss one’s own writing. Eight original literary works, including fiction, poetry, and translation, are presented by team of authors drawn from a variety of cultures. Each work is accompanied by a reflective commentary written by its author. The book provides three kinds of interest: (a) the literary interest of the works themselves; (b) the creative and critical interest of the commentaries'insights into the processes of writing; and (c) the pedagogic interest of the commentaries as potential models for students on creative writing courses. Contributors are Amal Chatterjee, Colm Breathnach, Fred D'Aguiar, Jane Draycott, Philip Gross, Kathryn Heyman, Sabyn Javeri, and Emily Raboteau. Creative Writing: Writers on Writing brings together the work of eight writers, each of whom contribute an original literary work and, in addition, an essay reflecting on how the work was written. Creative Writing combines literary appeal with critical insight. (This is the PDF edition.)