The Creativity Market

Creative Writing in the 21st Century

Edited by Dr. Dominique Hecq

Publication date:

05 April 2012

Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Dimensions:

210x148mm
6x8"

ISBN-13: 9781847697103

This book focuses on creative writing both as a subject in universities and beyond academia, with chapters arranged around three organising sub-themes of practice, research and pedagogy. It explores the ‘creative’ component of creative writing in the globalised marketplace, making the point that creative writing occurs in and around universities throughout the world. It examines the convergence of education, globalisation and economic discourses at the intersection of the university sector and creative industries, and foregrounds the competing interests at the core of creativity as it appears in the neo-liberal global discourse in which writers are enmeshed. The book offers case studies from the UK, the USA, Canada, Australia and Singapore that are indicative of the challenges faced by academics, postgraduate students and creative industry professionals around the world.

Chapter One: Graeme Harper: Creative Writing: the Ghost, the University, and the Future
Chapter Two: Dominique Hecq: Banking on Creativity: my Brilliant? Career.
Chapter Three: Jen Webb: Creativity and the Marketplace
Chapter Four: Jeremy Fisher : The Publishing Paradigm: Commercialism versus Creativity.
Chapter Five: Gerry Turcotte and Robyn Morris: ‘As Good as it Gets’: National Research Evaluations
Chapter Six: Jeff Sparrow: Creative writing, Neo-Liberalism and the Literary Paradigm
Chapter Seven: Antonia Pont: Nothing is Free in this Life
Chapter Eight: Phillip Edmonds: The Ghost in the Machine: Creative Writing and its Malcontents
Chapter Nine: Mike Harris: Creativity, Compromise, and Waking up with the Funding Devil.
Chapter Ten: Christopher Lappas: Entering the Fictitious: A play in two acts
Chapter Eleven: Vahri McKenzie: Using the Spectrum to Theorise Apparent Opposition in Creative Writing Doctorates
Chapter Twelve: Pavlina Radia: Outlying the Point that Tips: Bridging Academia and Business
Chapter Thirteen: Thom Vernon: Selling it: Creative Writing and the Public Good
Chapter Fourteen: Eric Tinsay Valles: On the Commercialisation of Creativity in the Merlion State
Afterword: Kirpal Singh: Creativity, the Market and the Global Challenge

After the 'long work' of alienating creativity from commercial-political worlds, this book is evidence of a new consciousness of the ways these realms overlap, seed, deform and enliven each other. This exchange between writers from UK, the USA, Canada, Australia and Singapore debates and ponders whether creative writing might be a brilliant career move, a player in resurgent global education, a search for community, therapy, magic, an un-saleable invention, or our last real craft.