TRP Creative Writing Studies Series
Series Editor: Khem K. Aryal
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Books in the TRP Creative Writing Studies series explore topics related to the theories, pedagogies, and practices of creative writing as both an art form and an academic discipline. Curated with the aim of enriching our understanding and teaching of creative writing, as well as advancing the cause of creative writing within academia, this series features scholarly work from creative writing and writing studies scholars and practitioners.
CWS Series Book 1:
Creative Writing Curiosity: Ten Essays on the Curious and the Writerly, Summer 2025
Edited by Graeme Harper
Creative Writing Curiosity: Ten Essays on the Curious and Writerly is a lively collection examining how curiosity informs, shapes, deepens and empowers creative writing. Across ten varied essays the collection explores curiosity as stimulus, as guide, as teacher, companion or provocateur. Sometimes initiating, sometimes encouraging deeper thinking and greater imagining, and often the impetus, curiosity is shown as innate and routinely engaged with uncertainty. It is from our desire to know, the questioning that our curiosity entails, that creative writing emerges. Ultimately, it is shown that curiosity is manifest not only in what we write creatively but in how we go about writing it.
GRAEME HARPER is Editor of New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing (Routledge) and author of such books as The Creative Writing Compass (2024), The Desire to Write(2019) and Critical Approaches to Creative Writing (2018), among a range of other works. His latest work of fiction, writing as Brooke Biaz, is Robots and Other People (Parlor, 2026). He is Professor of Creative Writing and Dean of The Honors College at Oakland University.
CWS Series Book 2:
Advancing Creative Writing Across the Curriculum, Fall 2026
Edited by Justin Nicholes
Chapters in this edited book fill a timely need in the area of creative writing across the curriculum (CWAC). Creative writing classes and majors remain among the most popular English department offerings in US higher education. At the same time, humanities-related fields find themselves increasingly needing to justify their contributions to students’ educational journeys. Advancing Creative Writing Across the Curriculum features cutting-edge, never-before-published scholarship from established researchers on the issue. Contributors in this edited book come from a range of relevant disciplines: applied linguistics, creative writing studies, rhetoric and composition, and writing studies generally. Teachers of creative writing generally and humanities programs specifically will find these chapters useful for supporting human-based creation, communication and connection across the curriculum.
Justin Nicholes is an associate professor of rhetoric and composition at the University of Wisconsin-Stout, where he teaches creative, scientific, and first-year writing. Chair of Research at the Creative Writing Studies Organization, he is the author of Creative Writing Across the Curriculum (2022) and Navigating Voices of Higher Education: A Poetic Ethnography of a University (2025).
CWS Series Book 3:
Beyond Truth and Fact: Innovations in the Craft of Creative Nonfiction, 2027
Edited by Karen Babine
Karen Babine is the two-time Minnesota Book Award-winning author of The Allure of Elsewhere: A Memoir of Going Solo(Milkweed Editions, 2025), All the Wild Hungers: A Season of Cooking and Cancer (Milkweed Editions, 2019) and Water and What We Know: Following the Roots of a Northern Life (University of Minnesota Press, 2015).
She is the founder and editor of Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies. Forthcoming books include the first edited collection of Assay work, Innovations in the Craft of Creative Nonfiction (Texas Review Press, 2027); and Updraft: the lift, drag, craft, and flight of creative nonfiction (Bloomsbury Academic, 2027).
She is a UC Foundation associate professor of English at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga.
CWS Series Book 4:
Creative Writing and the Small Press: A Personal History, 1988-2026, 2028
By David Starkey
David Starkey served as Santa Barbara’s 2009-2011 Poet Laureate. He is Founding Director of the Creative Writing Program at Santa Barbara City College and the Publisher and Co-editor of Gunpowder Press. Over the past thirty years, he has published eleven full-length collections of poetry with small presses and more than 500 poems in literary journals such as American Scholar, Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner and Southern Review. As an educator, he has written and edited a number of books, most recently Hello, Writer and Creative Writing: Four Genres in Brief (4th edition), both published by Bedford/St. Martin’s in 2021. David is also a founding editor of the California Review of Books and the host of Santa Barbara’s Creative Community.