Welcome to Creative Critical
The twenty-first century has seen the erosion of any sharp distinction between the ‘creative’ and the ‘critical’. Can criticism itself aspire to be creative? Does creative writing have a critical force? Or should we dispense with these terms altogether?
Such questions come to the fore as creative writing embeds itself in the academy, demanding fresh thought about the forms and languages of criticism, and new kinds of literature more attentive to their own critical force. This website aims to be a forum for all such forms of writing, thinking, and teaching.
Welcome to Creative Critical
The twenty-first century has seen the erosion of any sharp distinction between the ‘creative’ and the ‘critical’. Can criticism itself aspire to be creative? Does creative writing have a critical force? Or should we dispense with these terms altogether?
Such questions come to the fore as creative writing embeds itself in the academy, demanding fresh thought about the forms and languages of criticism, and new kinds of literature more attentive to their own critical force. This website aims to be a forum for all such forms of writing, thinking, and teaching.
Radical Continuum: on the Relationship Between the Creative and the Critical
By Gregory Leadbetter. To contemplate afresh the relation between the ‘creative’ and the ‘critical’ is to recognise a long conventional – and still highly influential – contrast between these terms within the history of criticism...
Creative Writing as Research: an Annotated Bibliography
By Gabriel Flynn. The emergence of PhD programs in creative writing poses questions about the nature of writing, research, and knowledge, some of which have complex histories that long predate the disciplines of creative writing and English Literature. This bibliography is aimed primarily at those who are interested in pursuing a PhD in creative writing and wishing to gain some knowledge of how such a possibility came about and find answers to some of the questions it raises.
Verse-Criticism
Edited by Christopher Norris and featuring verse essays by Norris, Lucy Newlyn, Bill Hughes, and Tom Bredehoft.