Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Part 1. Introduction -- 1. Telling Time, Making Use, Turning Together: Conversations in Creative Writing -- Part 2. Pedagogy -- 2. Where Are We Going in Creative Writing Pedagogy? -- 3. Good Counsel: Creative Writing, the Imagination, and Teaching -- 4. Writerly Reading in the Creative Writing Course -- Part 3. Programs -- 5. Text(ure), Modeling, Collage: Creative Writing and the Visual Arts -- 6. More Than the Sum of Our Parts: Variety in Graduate Programs -- 7. The Bold and the Beautiful: Rethinking Undergraduate Models -- 8. The Program Beyond the Program -- Part 4. The Profession -- 9. Creative Writing (Re)Defined -- 10. Terms & Trends: Creative Writing and the Academy -- Part 5. Careers -- 11. Peas in a Pod: Trajectories of Educations and Careers -- 12. The First Book -- 13. Taking the Stage, Stage Fright, Center Stage: Careers Over Time -- Part 6. Conclusions -- 14. Political, Practical and Philosophical Considerations for the Future -- About the Authors