Foreword: on criticism and creativity / Jonathan Bate
1. Introduction / David Morley and Philip Neilsen
Part I. Genres and Types: 2. A writing lesson: the three flat tires and the outer story / Ron Carlson; 3. In conversation: a new approach to teaching long fiction / Maureen Freely; 4. Genre and speculative fiction / Kim Wilkins; 5. Writing drama / Michelene Wandor; 6. Poetics and poetry / Bronwyn Lea; 7. Travel writing / Kári Gíslason; 8. Creative writing and new media / Hazel Smith; 9. Creative translation / Fiona Sampson; 10. Life writing / Philip Neilsen
Part II. Topics: 11. Serious play: creative writing and science / David Morley; 12. Outside the academy / Richard Beard; 13. Contemporary publishing / Christopher Hamilton-Emery; 14. Imaginative crossings: trans-global and trans-cultural narratives / Jewell Parker Rhodes; 15. Does that make sense? Approaches to the creative writing workshop / A. L. Kennedy.