Creative Writing in the Digital Age explores the vast array of opportunities that technology provides the Creative Writing teacher, ranging from effective online workshop models to methods that blur the boundaries of genre. From social media tools such as Twitter and Facebook to more advanced software like Inform 7, the book investigates the benefits and potential challenges these technologies present instructors in the classroom. Written with the everyday instructor in mind, the book includes practical classroom lessons that can be easily adapted to creative writing courses regardless of the instructor's technical expertise.
A practical guide to the principles, practice and opportunities of using digital technology in the creative writing class.
Creative writing in the academy has for too long been wedded to a print-based worldview and a rather narrow range of literary aesthetics.
Creative Writing in the Digital Age confronts both of those issues directly. This book is much more than a guide for creative writing as it looks toward the future; it is also a manifesto for how creative writing can survive--and thrive--in the present.
