Creative Writing in the Digital Age - Paperback

by Michael Dean Clark (Author), Michael Dean Clark (Editor), Trent Hergenrader (Editor)

Creative Writing in the Digital Age explores the vast array of opportunities that technology provides the Creative Writing teacher, ranging from effective online workshop models to methods that blur the boundaries of genre. From social media tools such as Twitter and Facebook to more advanced software like Inform 7, the book investigates the benefits and potential challenges these technologies present instructors in the classroom. Written with the everyday instructor in mind, the book includes practical classroom lessons that can be easily adapted to creative writing courses regardless of the instructor's technical expertise.

Author Biography

Michael Dean Clark is Associate Professor of Writing at Azusa Pacific University, USA. Formerly an award-winning journalist, he is an author of fiction and nonfiction focused on loss, grace, and uncommon redemption. His fiction and nonfiction work has appeared in Fast Forward, Relief, Coach's Midnight Diner, and elsewhere.

Trent Hergenrader is Assistant Professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology, USA. His academic research connects game-based learning and writing instruction, and his short fiction has appeared in such places as Fantasy & Science Fiction and Best Horror of the Year #1.

Joseph Rein is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, USA. His creative and critical work has appeared in such publications as The Pinch Literary Journal, Laurel Review and New Writing, and he is co-editor of the book Dispatches from the Classroom: Graduate Students on Creative Writing (2011).