Digital Voices: Podcasting in the Creative Writing Classroom PDF
Preview Digital Voices: Podcasting in the Creative Writing Classroom
Digital Voices RESEARCH IN CREATIVE WRITING Series Editors: Janelle Adsit (Humboldt State University, USA) Conchitina Cruz (University of the Philippines) James Ryan (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) Showcasing the most innovative research and field-defining scholarship surrounding Creative Writing Studies, Research in Creative Writing strives to discuss and demonstrate the best practices for creative writing pedagogy both inside and out of the academy. Scholarship published in the series wrestles with the core issues at the heart of the field including critical issues surrounding the practice of creative writing; multilingualism and diverse approaches to creative production; representation and the politics of aesthetics; intersectionality and addressing interlocking oppressions in and through creative writing; and the impact of teaching established lore. Responsive to emerging exigencies in the field and open to interdisciplinary and diverse contexts for creative writing, this series is designed to advance the field and push the boundaries of Creative Writing Studies. This series benefits from the guidance of and collaboration with the Creative Writing Studies Organization (https://cre ativ ewri ting studies .com/). Editorial board members Ching-In Chen (University of Washington Bothell, USA) Farid Matuk (University of Arizona, USA) Titles The Place and the Writer, edited by Marshall Moore and Sam Meekings Craft Consciousness and Artistic Practice in Creative Writing, Ben Ristow A-Z of Creative Writing Methods, edited by Francesca Rendle Short, Julienne Van Loon, David Carlin, Peta Murray, Stayci Taylor and Deborah Wardle Forthcoming titles Teaching Cultural Dexterity in Creative Writing, Micah McCrary Related titles Beyond Craft, Steve Westbrook and James Ryan Imaginative Teaching, edited by Amy Ash, Michael Dean Clark and Chris Drew Digital Voices Podcasting in the Creative Writing Classroom Leigh Camacho Rourks and Saul Lemerond BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP, UK 1385 Broadway, New York, NY 10018, USA 29 Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2, Ireland BLOOMSBURY, BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC and the Diana logo are trademarks of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc First published in Great Britain 2023 Copyright © Leigh Camacho Rourks and Saul Lemerond and guest authors 2023 Leigh Camacho Rourks and Saul Lemerond and guest authors have asserted their right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as Authors of this work. For legal purposes the Acknowledgments on p. viii constitute an extension of this copyright page. Series design by Eleanor Rose Cover design by Annabel Hewitson Cover image © GarryKillian/iStock and Ali Kahfi/iStock All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc does not have any control over, or responsibility for, any third- party websites referred to or in this book. All internet addresses given in this book were correct at the time of going to press. The author and publisher regret any inconvenience caused if addresses have changed or sites have ceased to exist, but can accept no responsibility for any such changes. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. ISBN: HB: 978-1-3502-5332-2 PB: 978-1-3502-5336-0 ePDF: 978-1-3502-5333-9 eBook: 978-1-3502-5334-6 Series: Research in Creative Writing Typeset by Deanta Global Publishing Services, Chennai, India To find out more about our authors and books visit www .bloomsbury .com and sign up for our newsletters. For Jennifer Schmidt and Lee Rourks, Thank you vi Contents Acknowledgments viii Introduction Saul Lemerond 1 1 Historical Context-Present: (The State of the Podcast) Saul Lemerond 13 2 The Many Voices Classroom Leigh Camacho Rourks 29 3 Craft and Metacognition Leigh Camacho Rourks 43 4 Fiction: Multimodality and the Storytelling Podcast Saul Lemerond 55 5 Poetry: From Performance to Analysis Billie R. Tadros 71 6 Creative Nonfiction: The Sound of Truth Rebecca Hazelwood 91 7 Teacher as Podcaster Kase Johnstun 103 8 Audience and Publishing Leigh Camacho Rourks 121 9 The Digital Divide and Podcasting Leigh Camacho Rourks 131 Afterword: Looking to the Future Leigh Camacho Rourks and Saul Lemerond 141 Notes 145 Bibliography 159 Biographies 166 Index 167 Acknowledgments If anything is certain in this world, it is that if you know us, we have talked to you about this book. To thank everyone who has had a hand in our success or has helped the ideas in this book develop would require an acknowledgments list as long as the book itself. That said, we would like to thank all of the individual students whom we have had the pleasure of teaching at Hanover College and Beacon College. We would also like to thank all of the faculty from these institutions who have supported us as both friends and colleagues. This is, of course, also true for the students and faculty from all of the other institutions that have allowed us the privilege of working in their classrooms. We would also like to acknowledge our three contributors, without whom the book would most certainly not have been possible. Rebecca Hazelwood, Kase Johnstun, and Billy R. Tadros are not only good friends but their expertise also was, at its most fundamental levels, necessary in this endeavor. We thank them for their ideas, enthusiasm, and their patience in allowing us to both include and edit their work. We are also grateful to our editor, Lucy Brown, and everyone at Bloomsbury involved in this project. We are grateful for both their support and the care they put into the production of this book. We’d also like to thank the editorial staff of the Journal of Creative Writing Studies for graciously granting us permission to use portions of our article, “The Virtues of Podcasting and Multimodal Literacies in the Creative Writing Classroom,” published in March 2022, in this book. Lastly, we’d like to acknowledge our families and friends as they provided us with the sort of Herculean support structures that lead us to sometimes wonder what it is we ever did to deserve them. Specifically, we’d like to thank our spouses Jennifer Schmidt and Lee Rourks. By Saul Lemerond and Leigh Camacho Rourks Digital Voices Introduction Introduction* Saul Lemerond When Leigh and I were discussing the possibility of this book, which coincidentally was the same time we were preparing an article on the same subject for the Journal of Creative Writing Studies, we kept returning to the question of why a book of this type did not already exist. This is not to disparage the many and varied existent works that address digital writing, digital narratives, and other hybrid works designed in and for our ever-evolving electronic landscape. The work being done to advance our understanding of how to better utilize these techniques in our classrooms is as necessary as it is amazing. But we were both drawn to podcasting, specifically, out of a shared interest in addressing a host of issues that have for too long gone unaddressed in our classrooms. This is to say that we have both been struggling for well over a decade with many problems that plague what can only be described as the “traditional” creative writing classroom. Though we know we aren’t necessarily unique in this regard, it bears pointing out that our perspectives related to the teaching of creative writing have been molded by our experiences as both students and teachers of minoritized groups. Leigh Camacho Rourks is a Cuban American with a learning disability in written expression, who has, throughout her career, taught writing in institutions and programs serving significant and diverse populations of non-traditional students, probational students, at-risk youth, and currently at Beacon College, students who have *Portions of this chapter first appeared in the March 2022 issue of the Journal of Creative Writing Studies, in our preliminary article on the subject, “The Virtues of Podcasting and Multimodal Literacies in the Creative Writing Classroom.” They have since been revised and extended.
The list of books you might like
