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Updated September 14, 2010

CONFERENCE PANELS

Panel / Presenter
P01 / Pedagogy and Creative Writing Chair: Rob Budde
The Question of Pedagogy within the Writer’s Studio / Betsy Warland
Fear and Loathing and Theory – The Role of Theory in the Classroom / Alison Acheson
Pointing the Pen in Clear Directions / Alanna Bondar
The Poetics of the Local – The Influence of Place on Writing / Rob Budde
Notes on thePerformative Turn in the Creative Writing Classroom / Natalie Meisner
You Have to Play: The Role of Textbooks in Creative Writing Pedagogy / Wanda Campbell
P02 / Workshops and Creative Writing Chair: Priscilla Uppal
No Art or Recipe: Teaching the Unteachable / Nicole Markotic
Re-Working the Workshop / M. Nardone
Double Vision: Teaching the Teaching of Creative Writing / Luanne Armstrong
Writing Workshops for Athletes / Priscila Uppal
Writerly Time in Writing / Kevin Roberts
P03 / Assessment in Creative Writing Chair: Lynne van Luven
Assessment in Creative Writing / Yvonne Blomer
Experimenting with Contract Grading in Workshops / Christine Wiesenthal
Small Groups in Large Classes: Using Peer Evaluation / Kathy Mac
How to Help Students Identify their Writing Arsenals / Lynne van Luven
Teaching the Extended Exercise and Writing Strategies / Natalee Caple
P04 / Psychology and Creative Writing Chair: Al Kizuk
Dreaming into Language / Al Kizuk
Teaching the Heart in the Realm of the Head / Darryl Whetter
If Not Eros in Teaching / Zoe Landale
Writing Outside the Mainstream: Beyond
Prison Life, Beyond Mental Illness / Ray Hsu & Lenore Rowntree
P05 / Technology and Creative Writing Chair: Marie Powell
Online Teaching of Creative Writing / Dave Brundage
Being Heard Above the Din: The Impact of Digital Technology / Dee Horne
Discussion of the Benefits of Digital Technologies for Writers / Marie Powell
Can Students Benefit from Access to Virtual Realities? / Christine Leclerc
P06 / Poetics of Personal Experience Chair: Calvin Wharton
How Creative Writing Unfolds as a Narrative / Kevin Spenst & Ray Hsu
Methods Used to Encourage Students to Use Their Personal Experience / Calvin Wharton
The Origins of the Novel – Using Personal Experience as a Paradigm / Keith Harrison
Fostering Hyphened Narratives in the Creative Writing Classroom / Sharanpal Ruprai
P07 / Activisms of Creative Writing Chair: Susan Reynolds
Creative Writing as a Benefit for Incarcerated Women / Susan Reynolds
Creative Writing as a Site of Cultural Action / Di Brandt
Creative Writing and Social Betterment / Louis Cabri
P08 / Readership and Creative Writing Chair: Catherine Bush
Reading at the Local Level / Michael Helm
Movement with Different Texts as a Way of Reading Texts / Catherine Bush
OpeningPositions: coming to reading and writing as students / Kilby Smith-McGregor
P09 / Graduates in Creative Writing Chair: Tom Wayman
Articulating the Methods of Training TAs / Brie Wittman
Relative Merits and Issues Related to Graduate Instruction / Maude Deschênes Pradet
Mind the Gap – Narrative on Distant Learning in Graduate Writing / Melissa Lacroix
Articulating Critical and Creative Components in Graduate Theses / Alain Beaulieu
University of Calgary Graduate Creative Writing Pedagogy Course / Tom Wayman
P10 / Publishing and Creative Writing Chair: Suzette Mayr
Who Gets Published and When? / Antanas Sileika
A Celebration of Fiddlehead: Magazines in Creative Writing Programs / Ross Leckie
Small Press Publishing in Alberta / Suzette Mayr, Robyn Read
P11 / Creativity Between Disciplines Chair: Tom Konyves
Concrete, Visual, Video Poetry / Tom Konyves
Hello, Selection Committee – Sheri-D Wilson on the Spoken Word / Sheri-D Wilson
The Xenotext Experiment (Progress Report) / Christian Bök
Turn Signals: Writers Drive, Educators Ride the Rumble Seat / Steven Ross Smith
P12 / The Perils of Creative Writing Chair: Karen Ilene Press
Ain’t Got No Alibi / J. Duncan
Forced Creativity / Karen Ilene Press
Teaching Writing to the Expansion of Our Creativity / Stephanie Bolster
Weaning Creative Writing from Adjunct Roles in English Departments / K. Summer
The Writer in the University: The Chronicle of a Death Foretold / Stephen Henighan
P13 / Taking the CCWWP to the Conference of Learned Societies
Chair: Ross Leckie
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