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This stimulating edited collection focuses on the practice of revision across all creative writing genres, providing a guide to the modes and methods of drafting, revising and editing. Offering an overview of how creative writing is generated and improved, the chapters address questions of how creative writers revise, why editing is such a crucial part of the creative process and how understanding the theories underpinning revision can enhance writers' projects.
Innovative and thought-provoking, this book is ideal for undergraduate and postgraduate students of creative writing, along with all creative writers looking to hone and polish their craft.
Jeri Kroll
Professor Jeri Kroll is currently Dean of Graduate Research at Flinders University. She established the Creative Writing Program and has published over 20 books for adults and young people. Past President of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs, she is on the boards of New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing and TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses. Recent books include Swamp Soup (2012, for children) and Workshopping the Heart: New and Selected Poems (2013). Among over 40 scholarly works, most recent are the co-edited Research Methods in Creative Writing (Palgrave Macmillan 2013) and 'Creative Writing and Education' in the Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Creative Writing. A staged reading of her verse novel, Vanishing Point, took place at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts 'Page to Stage' Festival (2011) and will be published in book form by Puncher and Wattman in 2014.
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