Theories of creativity and creative writing pedagogy / Mary Swander, Anna Leahy, and Mary Cantrell -- The evaluation of creative writing at MA level (UK) / Jenny Newman -- The creative writing MFA / Stephanie Vanderslice -- Creative writing and critical theory / Lauri Ramey -- Literary genres / David Rain -- The writer as artist / Steven Earnshaw -- The future of creative writing / Paul Dawson -- Reading, writing and teaching the short story / E.A. Markham -- Writing the memoir / Judith Barrington -- Introduction to the novel / Jane Rogers -- Crime fiction / John Dale -- Writing science fiction and fantasy / Crawford Killian -- How language lives us: reading and writing historical fiction / Brian Kiteley -- Writing humorous fiction / Susan Hubbard -- Writing for children / Alan Brown -- Writing for teenagers / Linda Newbery -- The 'Everything you ever wanted to know about creative nonfiction, but were too naive or uninformed to ask' workshop simulation / Lee Gutkind -- Introduction to poetry / Sean O'Brien -- What is form? / W.N. Herbert -- New poetries / Aaron Kunin -- The poet in the theatre: verse drama / Sean O'Brien -- The sequence and the long poem / George Szirtes -- Introduction to scriptwriting / Mike Harris -- Writing for the stage / Brighde Mullins -- Writing for radio / Mike Harris -- Writing for television / Stephen V. Duncan -- Writing for television: UK differences / John Milne -- Writing for film / Bonnie O'Neill -- Writing as experimental practice / Thalia Field -- Writing as 'therapy' / Fiona Sampson -- Writing in the community / Linda Sargent -- Writing for the web / James Sheard -- The role of the critical essay / Scott McCracken -- Translation / Susan Bassnett -- Creative writing doctorates / Graeme Harper -- How to start a literary magazine / Rebecca Wolff -- How to be a writer / John Milne -- How to present yourself as a writer / Alison Baverstock -- Publishing fiction / Mary Mount -- American pobiz / Chase Twichell -- Publishing poetry in Britain / Sean O'Brien -- The literary agent (novel) / David Smith -- The film agent / Julian Friedmann -- The literary agent: television, theatre and radio / Alan Brodie -- Copyright / Shay Humphrey, with Lee Penhaligan -- Literary life: prizes, anthologies, festivals, reviewing, grants / Tom Shapcott -- The writer as teacher / Gareth Creer -- Making a living as a writer / Livi Michael.