Experimental Writing: A Writer's Guide and Anthology

This book is a comprehensive guide to the practices of contemporary experimental creative writing, exploring experimentation within traditional and post-genre modes. It provides a toolkit of techniques and skills to engage with forms previously perceived as intimidating, and includes sections on new approaches to the workshop model, emphasis on community and collaboration, and institutional critique.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 376 pages
Publication date: 22 February 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

This comprehensive guide to contemporary experimental creative writing delves into the realm of experimentation across traditional writing genres and post-genre modes, including hybrid texts, non-creative writing, textual materiality, creative re-purposing, performance, and new media technologies. By combining the practices, histories, social contexts, and philosophical backgrounds of experimental work with a rich anthology of models both in the book and online, Experimental Writing equips writers with the tools and skills to confidently engage with previously perceived intimidating forms, reinvigorating their craft.

Furthermore, the book offers insightful sections on new approaches to the workshop model, emphasizing community and collaboration, and institutional critique. These chapters provide a "big picture" perspective and inspire writers to question the templates they work within, enabling them to shape their own ideals for writing, regardless of their stylistic choices.

Experimental Writing encompasses a vast scope, covering:

• A comprehensive survey of relevant movements, texts, authors, and techniques of non-traditional forms.
• A survey of evolving trends with exemplars of how genres can be disrupted to foster experimental styles.
• Demonstrations of how more diverse and innovative pedagogical interventions can ignite creativity and produce more original work.
• An examination of the institutional forces that have shaped the creative writing landscape, prompting writers to re-examine the pressures, cultural biases, and power structures that have influenced their aesthetic vision and potential career paths.
• Frameworks for independent research, practitioner interviews, and motivating questions to inspire writers to push the boundaries of their craft.

By embracing experimentation and exploring these diverse approaches, writers can expand their creative horizons, challenge conventions, and forge new paths in the ever-evolving field of creative writing.

Weight: 650g
Dimension: 169 x 243 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781350240971