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Issue Details: First known date: 2020... 2020 When Your Practice Is the Research : A Symposia-led Model for the Creative Writing PhD
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'With PhDs in creative writing becoming more valued and valuable in both local and international contexts, the question of models that are fit for purpose has never been more pressing. This paper discusses a case study of an approach to PhD pedagogy underway with writers from across the Asia-Pacific. It is a model of advanced practice-led research in creative writing, which helps established and mid-career writers to deepen their oeuvres and careers. The model poses the question: What if a PhD in creative writing focused its site of research on a practitioner’s ongoing practice as a writer? How might this deepen the practitioner’s engagement with the processes of and contexts for writing, and enable shifts in and for their future writing practice? This paper invites educators and writers to reconsider how a PhD by practice in creative writing contributes new knowledge – on literary approaches, forms, genres and cultures – to the discipline, at the same time as it provides a writer with insights to transform their practice. Faculty and student perspectives of a transcultural, multidisciplinary, low-residency program, based in Vietnam and Australia, reveal how this unconventional approach is making a difference to PhD pedagogy and creative practice research.'

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    y separately published work icon TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs vol. 24 no. 2 October 2020 20753485 2020 periodical issue 'Scholarly contributions to the October 2020 edition of TEXT canvas a range of research problems, from doctoral pedagogy to the role of the imagination in the creation of sensory narrative detail, from critical approaches to worldbuilding to the problem of the anti-heroine. Contributing authors also engage a wide range of forms including scriptwriting, prose poetry, realist fiction, sci-fi and fantasy and experimental life writing.' (Editorial introduction) 2020
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