Creativity and Discovery in the University Writing Class - A Teacher's Guide - Alice Chik

Creativity and Discovery in the University Writing Class - A Teacher's Guide - Alice Chik

10. The Creative "I" Workshop

Creativity and Discovery in the University Writing Class - A Teacher's Guide - Alice Chik

Xu Xi [+-]
City University of Hong Kong
Xu Xi 許素細 (www.xuxiwriter.com) is author of nine books of fiction and essays, most recently Access Thirteen Tales (2011); the novel Habit of a Foreign Sky (2010), which was a finalist for the inaugural Man Asian Literary Prize; and Evanescent Isles (2008), an essay collection. She is also editor or co-editor of four anthologies of Hong Kong writing in English, most recently The Queen of Statue Square: New Hong Kong Short Fiction, to be published in 2014 by CCC Press, Nottingham, U.K. In 2010, she joined City University of Hong Kong as the Writer-in-Residence in the Department of English, where she helped to establish and now directs Asia’s first low-residency MFA (Masters of Fine Arts) in Creative Writing (www.english.cityu.edu.hk/mfa). The author holds an M.F.A. in Fiction from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

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For the 2013 Summer Institute on Creativity and Discovery in the Teaching of University Writing held at City University of Hong Kong, I taught a highly modified version of the standard M.F.A. writing workshop which was titled The Creative “I.” The modification was designed for beginning writers or academic writers or college teachers of writing. The audience in mind is one that may not necessarily have previously written creative literary work or those who have never written or desired to write such work, unlike an M.F.A. workshop of those accepted for study in graduate level creative writing programs. The objective was to introduce some of the approaches and thinking which creative writers use in M.F.A. teaching to this audience in order to give them new tools that might be usefully applied to the teaching of various other forms of college writing. This paper discusses that experience.

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Xi, Xu. 10. The Creative "I" Workshop. Creativity and Discovery in the University Writing Class - A Teacher's Guide. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 209-219 Jul 2015. ISBN 9781781791066. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=27775. Date accessed: 23 Apr 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.27775. Jul 2015

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