Does the Writing Workshop Still Work?

Abstract

Foreword - Graeme Harper Introduction: 'If it Ain't Broke, Don't Fix it,' Or 'Change is Inevitable--Except from a Vending Machine.' -Dianne DonnellySection One: Inside the Writing Workshop Model 1.Once More to the Workshop: A Myth Caught in Time - Stephanie Vanderslice 2.Workshop: An Ontological Study - Patrick Bizzaro 3.Small Worlds: What Works in the Workshop if and When They Do - Philip Gross 4.Teaching as a Creative Act: Why the Workshop Works in Creative Writin - Anna Leahy 5.Workshopping and Fiction: Laboratory, Factory, or Finishing School? - Willy MaleySection Two: Engaging the Conflicts 6.Poetry, F(r)iction, Drama: The Complex Dynamics of Audience in the Writing Workshop - Tim Mayers 7.Engaging the Individual/Social Conflict within Creative Writing Workshops - Brent Royster 8.Potentially dangerous: vulnerabilities and risks in the writing workshop - Gaylene Perry 9.Its fine, I gess': Problems with Peer Review and What These Indicate about the Status of the Workshop Model in College Composition Courses - Colin IrvineSection Three: The Non-Normative Workshop 10.The Writing Workshop in the Two-Year College: Who Cares? - David Starkey 11.Workshopping Lives - Mary Ellen Bertolini 12.The Things I Used to Do: Workshops Old and New - Keith Kumasen AbbottSection Four: New Models for Relocating the Workshop 13.Re-envisioning the Workshop: Hybrid Classrooms, Hybrid Texts - Katharine Haake 14.Introducing Masterclasses - Sue Roe 15.Wrestling Bartleby: Another Workshop Model for the Creative Writing Classroom - Leslie Wilson 16.'A Space of Radical Openness': Re-visioning the Creative Writing Workshop - Mary Ann CainAfterword: Disciplinarity and the Future of Creative Writing Studies - Joseph Moxley