The International Centre
for
Creative Writing Research
(ICCWR)
The International Centre for Creative Writing Research (ICCWR) is an international forum
for debate about Creative Writing in universities and colleges, about creative practice
research, and critical research, in Creative Writing, and for discussions about the
teaching of Creative Writing in universities and colleges.
The ICCWR holds international video-linked seminars, readings and symposia, and supports the development of research in Creative Writing - through the practice of Creative Writing as well as through critical responses to that practice.
The ICCWR warmly welcomes the involvement of all creative
writers in universities and colleges, worldwide.
For more information about the ICCWR
contact:
graeme.harper@bangor.ac.uk
or write to
Prof. Graeme
Harper, Professor of Creative Writing, NIECI, Bangor University, Bangor, LL57 2DG. U.K.
The nature of Creative Writing knowledge
* What do we know?
* What don't we know and would like to find out?
* What issues of differentiation arise:
- culturally?
- historically?
- textually?
- individually?
* What methods are there to make discoveries?
Creative Writing : A Creative and Critical Discipline
1. Creative Writing as a notable research field - creative (practice-led) and critical;
2. Acts and actions, and the evidence or 'footprints' of Creative Writing - the condition and extent - of these.
Evidence of Creative Writing -1
* writer or writers;
* process or processes;
* personal and societal locations;
* craft instruments and objects;
* Acts of Connection - Acts of Disconnection:
Creative writers
and their themes and subjects.
Evidence of Creative Writing -2
* "Psychologies" of active human action and interaction
* pre-texts, complementary texts, final texts, post-texts;
* "central" results and "attached" results.
* documents of exchange
* Relatively poor understanding of the importance of the knowledge contained within creative writing.
* Relatively low level of research support from governments, universities, colleges...
* Incredible growth, development and enthusiasm, worldwide!