Creative Writing course leaders collaborate to release new book with Bloomsbury Academic
25 March 2026
Two of Falmouth’s course leaders have collaborated to release a collection of essays that interrogate the creative writing workshop model and offer practical suggestions on what is a contemporary approach to creative writing.
The publication, recently released on 19 March with Bloomsbury Academic, is a volume that features chapters written by academics from around the world and reflects on topics such as module design, diversity and inclusion, teaching style and assessments among many more themes in the teaching of creative writing.
Edited by BA(Hons) English & Creative Writing course leader, Dr Adrian Markle, in collaboration with BA(Hons) Creative Writing (Online) course leader, Dr Marshall Moore and Dr Sam Meekings from Northwestern University Qatar, The Creative Writing Workshop in the 21st Century reimagines the teaching of writing with a collection of concrete strategies and actionable recommendations.
When asked what they wanted the collection to do, Marshall told us: “So much of the scholarship around the workshop has been focused on big-picture questions of inclusion and social justice, yet there has been surprisingly little discussion of the hands-on pedagogical adaptations writing teachers might make. With this book — it was Adrian's idea — we wanted to look at what could be put into practice.”
Adrian added how he believes the workshop part of creative writing is “the most taken-for-granted and also the most misunderstood element of the creative writing pedagogy.
“Many facilitators just replicate the experience they had as learners without thinking about whether there are adjustments they could make. I actually love the workshop, and I wanted to contribute to the discussion of modernising it.”
Reflecting on working with fellow Falmouth course leader, Marshall Moore, Adrian added how the collaboration was as an exciting experience: “In the collection we have contributors from numerous writing and teaching cultures from around the world; Marshall is very experienced at developing volumes like this, so he had a lot of useful ideas for development, a great network of people to reach out to for involvement and he made sure the production experience was incredibly smooth and successful.”
Within the collection, Adrian has penned a chapter himself, entitled No Such Thing as a Final Draft: The Effects of Always Framing Student Work as “In Progress” and Never “Finished”. Considering his chapter, Adrian commented: “I feel like some people don't think of the process in quite the right way when thinking about writing in the context of education, and that correcting that can make the experience a lot better.”
As course leader for Falmouth’s on campus creative writing courses, we asked Adrian what it is that makes Falmouth such a great town and university for creative writers. “It's got such a varied and vibrant creative culture, which gives you so many new opportunities to expand your practice,” he told us. “Falmouth’s School of Communication isn't just full of people who are actively writing, publishing and living their creative practice right now, but it’s a hotspot of teaching innovation and leadership.”
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