PROFESSOR GRAEME HARPER

Brooke Biaz - My Recent Books

Releasing the Animals,a new novel by Graeme Harper, writing as Brooke Biaz, explores some lively escaping by some enthusiastic escapees. Out Now

The Japanese Cook. Six young cooks leave Shimura Junior High School, selected to compete for apprenticeships at Mr. Kishimoto's International Culinary Institute. Excitement, fear and discovery follow! Available from Parlor Press.

The Invention of Dying. On the Communion Islands modern medicine is arriving. But not in a way anyone expected! Available from Parlor Press.

Visit the Communion Islands. Brooke assists with this informational work on the Communion Islands.

Camera Phone. How powerful a vision has the young and modern film-maker, connected by cell phone to the entire world? From the fine Parlor Press.

Moon Dance. Being born in the 1960s could take ten years. . . . Sometimes the universe and our lives entwine. In the era of the space race, as JFK sent us rocketing toward The Moon, a family, a life, a love, was being created in a tropical beach house. Moon Dance is the story of a decade, a conception, a family, a birth. One small step for man, one giant leap for womankind! Here

Small Maps of the World. This collection of fiction by Graeme Harper, writing as Brooke Biaz, investigates the meanings attached to events in place; and then the tourism of time bound to places, with bountiful humor and wit unearths the bonds between individuals and location but also wonders on the underlying connections between people and their sense of belonging. Here

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With much appreciation, Brooke has recently accepted the position of Communion Islands Ambassador to the US (Pekelaniki "honorary") for an initial period of 10 years (2019-2029). Brooke writes:

"I am so grateful for this considerable honor bestowed upon me by the wonderful, warm people of The Communion Islands. I aim to represent you all as best as I can, in my work with the people of the United States, and by communicating also with those others with whom I work also around the world.".

Brooke's previous work on the history and life of The Communion Islands was displayed in New York and as part of a traveling exhibition, across the USA, in 2012-2015. This was followed by the release of pamphlets showing key features of Communion life (2012, 2018, 2021), from the association with the sea to the ceremonies and beliefs held dear in the mountainous regions.

On the June 17 2019, at a wonderful ceremony at the Rushing Hotel, overlooking the fine Breaking Breakers Beach, Brooke was so very thrilled to be awarded the 73rd annual "Long Palm and Flying Fish", one of the Communions Islands' highest awards for distinguished service to the islands community. Having served as honorary Young Cultural Attache of the Communion Islands (1991-2001), Brooke was previously awarded the 2001 'Koolai-Kanakan' (or 'key') to the Islands:

Kolkalowa!/Welcome!

For more information about travel to, and accommodation on, the Communion Islands contact:

Communion Islands Tourism

 

New Works by Graeme Harper

Stimulus, Intention and Process in Creative Writing: A Reader. "Stimulus, Intention and Process in Creative Writing explores three exciting and key areas of creative writing practice and understanding. What stimulates a writer to write – or to write a particular piece? What do they intend to achieve when they do it? And is there a process we can study and perhaps even understand?"

Stimulus, Intention and Process in Creative Writing

 

Creative Writing Analysis is a guide to solving creative writing problems; acting as a practical introduction to progressing a creative writing project as well as an exploration of the many ways in which creative writing can be understood. Topics include writing methods, textual analysis, practice-led research, interdisciplinarity and cultural contexts, this book explores the various forms of analysis that can be employed. Graeme Harper provides information to assist in creative decision making, and as a means for discussing approaches and outcomes in creative writing. Creative Writing Analysis

 

Honors Education Around the World. This volume is constructed around several significant questions, relevant to every honors program and national perspective. Today, in our more globally connected world, there is good reason to closely and critically consider how an exploration of honors education worldwide can empower both educators and students to match personal and communal aspirations with educational outcomes. Contributors to this book do exactly that.Honors Education Around the World.

 

Honors Education and the Foundation of Fairness. How can we support, develop and maintain higher education programs that focus on high academic achievement, while at the same time allowing equitable access to, and progress in, higher learning? This volume focuses not only on a diverse population in higher education, but on creating and supporting a population fundamentally created in, and informed by, fairness. Out Now

Discovering Creative Writing How you begin, how you structure, how your writing process works, how a work embodies movemnt and change, what influences you, and, ultimately, how you end. Discovering Creative Writing points you toward clues that can assist you in understanding your own creative writing as well as the creative writing of others. Out now

Responding to Creative Writing. What is the nature of human response in creative writing? What does it entail and how does it contain meaning. Out Now

Creative Writing: Drafting, Revising, Editing. Ed. with Jeri Kroll. Chapters exploring the three areas of practice noted. Contributors explore these in both practical and analytical ways. Out Now.

Thinking Creative Writing explores the many ways in which creative writing can be critically considered, and understood, as well as the teaching and learning of creative writing. Out Now

Honors Education: Excellence, Innovation, Ingenuity. A collection considering the nature of educational excellence in honors colleges and programsOut Now

The Desire to Write, an investigation of the reasons for chosing to write creatively, and of the individual ways to assess, develop and actively utilize elements of your desire to write. Out Now

Critical Approaches to Creative Writing: Creative Exposition. This book considers explanations about creative writing practice and about its results, and outlines an approach based in the practice that can assist new and established writers alike. Out Now

Changing Creative Writing in America: Strengths, Weaknesses, Possibilities. A collection exploring the present and future of creative writing education in American higher education. Out now from MLM and widely available via online booksellers.

Filmurbia: Cinema and the Suburbs, edited with David Forrest and Jonathan Rayner. An exploration of films of suburbia, around the world. Out nowfrom Palgrave-Macmillan.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Honors Education. A collection of chapters from honors colleges and programs, focusing on inclusion Out Now

Creative Writing and Education. An international collection featuring articles and commentaries on creative writing in colleges, universities and schools, as well as in the wider community of practice and understanding. Out Now

The Future for Creative Writing. What will creative writing be like in 10 years, 50 years, next century? This book, in the Blackwell Manifestoes series, makes some suggestions.

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