With emphasis on practical classroom application, this title is suitable for teaching creative writing. Divided into four sections - "Laying the Ground Rules", "What is 'Appropriate' for the Workshop?", "Teaching 'Technique'", and "The Hybrid TA", it explores issues of daily concern to creative writing instructors from many viewpoints.

Introduction; Part I- Laying the Ground Rules; Workshop, Revision, and Grading in the Creative Writing Syllabus; Preventing Tears in Workshop:; Teaching Students How to Give and Receive Criticism; Kristen Gottstein, Georgia State University; Eradicating Reviser's Block:; Bringing Revision to the Foreground; Ashley Cowger, University of Alaska Fairbanks; Confronting the Unavoidable:; Grading Creative Writing; Ashley Wurzbacher, Eastern Washington University; Part II - What Is "Appropriate" for the Workshop?; Censorship, Trauma, and Memory in the Creative Writing Classroom; Invoking the Muzzle:; Censorship and the Creative Writing Workshop; M. Thomas Gammarino, The University of Hawaii; Dear Diary:; Violence, Confession, and (Creative) Writing Pedagogies; Laura Madeline Wiseman, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; What Time Was I Supposed to Remember That?:; Memory, Constraint, and Creative Writing Pedagogy; Michael Dean Clark, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Part III - Teaching "Technique"; Craft Elements and Exercises; Exercises in Authority:; Teaching Fiction and Poetry in the Undergraduate Classroom; Jeremy Lakaszcyck, University of Massachusetts; Write What You Don't Know:; Teaching Creative Research; Joseph Rein, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Making the Parts of the Workshop Come Together:; A Practical Example; Yelizaveta P. Renfro, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Avoiding Meaning:; A Classroom Exercise to Improve Students' Homophonic Sensibilities; David Bartone, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Unleashing the Nemesis of Genre Fiction; Karen Gentry, Georgia State University; Specificity of Dialogue:; A Coke is a Soda is a Pop is a Cola; Liane LeMaster, Georgia State University; So Much For That Happy Ending:; Rendering Complex Emotion in Fiction; Anthony J. Sams, University of North Carolina Wilmington; Part IV| The Hybrid TA; Literary Theory, Writing Centers, and the New Creative Writer; Something to Push Up Against:; Using Theory as Creative Pedagogy; Kimberly Quiogue Andrews and John Belk, Pennsylvania State University; Adapting Writing Center Pedagogy for the Undergraduate Creative Writing Workshop; Janelle Adsit, Colorado State University; Composing Creatively:; Further Crossing Composition/Creative Writing Boundaries; David Yost and Chris Drew, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.