With emphasis on practical classroom application, this up-to-date and refreshingly honest collection of essays is a wonderful resource for teaching creative writing. The original and utterly contemporary essays that accurately portray the reality of the teaching experience.

IntroductionPart I- Laying the Ground Rules Workshop, Revision, and Grading in the Creative Writing SyllabusPreventing Tears in Workshop: Teaching Students How to Give and Receive Criticism Kristen Gottstein, Georgia State University Eradicating Reviser's Block: Bringing Revision to the Foreground Ashley Cowger, University of Alaska FairbanksConfronting the Unavoidable:Grading Creative WritingAshley Wurzbacher, Eastern Washington UniversityPart II - What Is "Appropriate" for the Workshop?Censorship, Trauma, and Memory in the Creative Writing ClassroomInvoking the Muzzle: Censorship and the Creative Writing WorkshopM. Thomas Gammarino, The University of HawaiiDear Diary:Violence, Confession, and (Creative) Writing PedagogiesLaura Madeline Wiseman, University of Nebraska-LincolnWhat Time Was I Supposed to Remember That?: Memory, Constraint, and Creative Writing PedagogyMichael Dean Clark, University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeePart III - Teaching "Technique"Craft Elements and ExercisesExercises in Authority: Teaching Fiction and Poetry in the Undergraduate ClassroomJeremy Lakaszcyck, University of MassachusettsWrite What You Don't Know: Teaching Creative ResearchJoseph Rein, University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeeMaking the Parts of the Workshop Come Together: A Practical ExampleYelizaveta P. Renfro, University of Nebraska-LincolnAvoiding Meaning: A Classroom Exercise to Improve Students' Homophonic SensibilitiesDavid Bartone, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Unleashing the Nemesis of Genre Fiction Karen Gentry, Georgia State UniversitySpecificity of Dialogue: A Coke is a Soda is a Pop is a ColaLiane LeMaster, Georgia State UniversitySo Much For That Happy Ending: Rendering Complex Emotion in FictionAnthony J. Sams, University of North Carolina WilmingtonPart IV | The Hybrid TALiterary Theory, Writing Centers, and the New Creative WriterSomething to Push Up Against: Using Theory as Creative PedagogyKimberly Quiogue Andrews and John Belk, Pennsylvania State UniversityAdapting Writing Center Pedagogy for the Undergraduate Creative Writing WorkshopJanelle Adsit, Colorado State UniversityComposing Creatively: Further Crossing Composition/Creative Writing BoundariesDavid Yost and Chris Drew, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee