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    Writing Creative Writing: Essays from the Field
    Writing Creative Writing: Essays from the Field
    Writing Creative Writing: Essays from the Field
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    Writing Creative Writing: Essays from the Field

    By Dundurn

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

    Writing Creative Writing is filled with thoughtful and entertaining essays on the joys and challenges of creative writing, the complexities of the creative writing classroom, the place of writing programs in the twenty-first century, and exciting strategies and exercises for writing and teaching different genres. Written by a host of Canada’s leading writers, including Christian Bök, Catherine Bush, Suzette Mayr, Yvette Nolan, Judith Thompson, and thom vernon, this book is the first of its kind and destined to be a milestone for every creative writing student, teacher, aspirant, and professional.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDundurn
    Release dateMay 5, 2018
    ISBN9781459741706
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