Creative Writing

These titles are all e-books - free access from home with KPU Library card:

• Arc
• Blackbird - A joint project from the Department of English at Virginia Commonwealth University and New Virginia Review, Inc., Blackbird presents poems, stories, essays, and other beautiful examples of written work.
• Brick
• Broken Pencil - a mega-zine published four times a year, features reviews of hundreds of zines and small press books, plus comics, excerpts from the best of the underground press, interviews, original fiction and commentary.
• Canadian Notes and Queries
• Canadian Theatre Review
• Capilano Review
• Ditch, the poetry that matters
• Event
• Fiddlehead 
• Forget
• Geist 
• Joyland
• Lemon Hound
• Malahat Review 
• New Quarterly 
• Plenitude Magazine
• Poetry (by Poetry Foundation)
• Poetry is Dead 
• Prairie Fire 
• Prism International: contemporary writing from Canada and around the world 
• Ricepaper 
• Room 
• Subterrain 
• The Writer: Advice and Inspiration for today’s writer

OER Websites and Textbooks:

• Open Culture

  An aggregator of free, downloadable courses from the world's leading universities, including many courses relating to Creative Writing.

• Open Learn

  Free online courses and resources provided by the Open University. Covers many subjects, including Creative Writing.

About Writing: A Guide: This writer’s reference condenses and covers everything a beginning writing student needs to successfully compose college-level work, including the basics of composition, grammar, and research. It is broken down into easy-to-tackle sections, while not overloading students with more information than they need. Great for any beginning writing students or as reference for advanced students! 

Teaching Autoethnography: Personal Writing in the Classroom is dedicated to the practice of immersive ethnographic and autoethnographic writing that encourages authors to participate in the communities about which they write. This book draws not only on critical qualitative inquiry methods such as interview and observation, but also on theories and sensibilities from creative writing and performance studies, which encourage self-reflection and narrative composition. 

Bad Ideas About Writing counters major myths about writing instruction. Inspired by the provocative science- and social-science-focused book This Idea Must Die and written for a general audience, the collection offers opinionated, research-based statements intended to spark debate and to offer a better way of teaching writing. 

Yoga Minds, Writing Bodies: Contemplative Writing Pedagogy: In this text Christy Wenger argues for the inclusion of Eastern-influenced contemplative education within writing studies. She observes that, although we have "embodied" writing education in general by discussing the rhetorics of racialized, gendered, and disabled bodies, we have done substantially less to address the particular bodies that occupy our classrooms. She proposes that we turn to contemplative education practices that engages student bodies through fusing a traditional curriculum with contemplative practices including yoga, meditation, and the martial arts.

The Rough Writer's Guide: A Handbook for Writing Well - The Guide provides students with help navigating academic writing, including all aspects of the writing process, MLA and APA formatting, and grammatical and mechanical issues.

Write or Left: an OER Textbook for Creative Writing Classes - A textbook for introductory creative writing classes with condensed chapters and expanded genres. The third version - the 2022 edition - was created in late fall of 2021 to include a gentler/more inclusive approach to writing and more diverse student examples.

The Anti-Textbook of Writing - The Anti-Textbook of Writing retains some content from the original Anti-Textbook published in 2013 by Sybil Priebe under Copyright, but it’s been remixed with other OER, plus – the best part – diverse student examples have been added! In addition, the genres unit was expanded to include Tweets and Texting and Poetry (etc.), an extended array of strategies will only be included in the Expanded Version.

Rethinking the Craft of Fiction Writing: Resources on Teaching and Learning Creative Writing (January 2022): By Thomas Dodson. This essay examines resources for the study of the craft of fiction writing, focusing on works of interest to teachers and students of creative writing and to librarians seeking to develop collections to support creative writing courses.

Rivera Santana, Carlos, and Graham Akhurst. "Critical Creative Pedagogies: A Decolonial and Indigenous Approach using Gilbert, Francis. "Why Teach Creative Writing? Examining the Challenges of its Pedagogies." Changing English, vol. 28, no. 2, 2021, pp. 148-168.

Gilbert, Francis. "Why Teach Creative Writing? Examining the Challenges of its Pedagogies." Changing English, vol. 28, no. 2, 2021, pp. 148-168.

Martin, Anne, et al. "Teachers as Writing Students: Narratives of Professional Development in a Leisure-Time Creative Writing Community." Teacher Development, vol. 26, no. 3, 2022, pp. 432-451.

Jarvie, Scott, and Michael Lockett. "Close Writing Practices in the Post-Secondary Classroom." Changing English, vol. 29, no. 4, 2022, pp. 410-420.

Cisneros, Nora A. "Indigenous Girls Write, Right!? Unsettling Urban Literacies with Indigenous Writing Pedagogies." Urban Education (Beverly Hills, Calif.), vol. 57, no. 10, 2022, pp. 1757-1783.