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I convinced him to give me a bit of space over here to talk about creative writing, and this is all I get! When I mention this website, he just starts quoting John Henry Newman. "There is nothing more noble than the creation of a university . .." Blah Blah Blah. I don't know, maybe he's onto something! Maybe you should decide for yourself: creativeuniversities.org

Welcome

A warm welcome!

This is the personal website of Graeme Harper. He is pleased to work with colleagues in the US and around the world.

You can contact him on the email addresses to the left of screen.

Biographical information: Began thinking on this July 24 1969, in the Pacific, 920 miles southwest of Honolulu. Twelve years later, enjoying the beaches of New South Wales. Undergraduate work, University of Sydney. Graduate and further work at the University of New England, University of Technology, Sydney, in Britain at University of East Anglia and the University of Wales, Bangor, and in the US at Harvard University. Inaugural Dean of The Honors College and Professor at Oakland University (a founding honors university, in the northern reaches of Detroit, Michigan, US). Serving as research and book/research proposal assessor internationally, and have served as visiting or honorary professor in the United Kingdom, continental Europe, Australia and China. Previously a Creative Fellow, Research Fellow, and an inaugural Commonwealth Universities Creative Writing Scholar. Previously Chair of the Creative Writing Studies Organization and of the At Large Division of the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR), he is currently Director of the Creative Writing Studies Center (CWSC), of Undergraduate Research (UGC), and of the NSFMIH. And current Chair of PreMed Honors. Editor of New Writing, Director of the Great Writing International Creative Writing Conference, and book list editor.

Brooke Biaz - My Recent Books

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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

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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?"

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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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Forthcoming

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Books, new media, stories, articles, and events.

Works in progress:

A collection of short stories by Brooke Biaz.

Honors Education Today and Tomorrow: the Future of Advanced Learning. An edited book featuring work on honors colleges and programs as they look today and are likely to look in the years ahead.

Innovation in Creative Writing Teaching. A wonderful collection of work by writers and scholars on innovative approaches to learning to write creatively, along with some explorations of challenging new ways to consider what can be learnt together by new writers and established ones too!

 

 

Ladders Upon Which the Aspiring Can Rise. A study of the emergence and extension of science and technology research and teaching in US universities in the period from the mid-1950s. (out in 2025)

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Some previous events:

Our United Globe, a global conversation between creative writers, editors and publishers, celebrating unity and diversity November 1 2020

"Critical Approaches to Creative Writing in America". An internatoinal video-linked conversation.September 20 2019

Third and Second Annual Conference of the National Society for Minorities in Honors (NSFMIH), kindly hosted by .Tricia Smith at UCA in 2018 and Kacee Ferrell Snyder at Bowling Green State University, in 2017

Virtual and Augmented Reality: Launching of the Image VR/AR Suite. Working with CDI and companies as varied as the CGS innovation company, Comerica Bank and Taubmann, the launch of the IMAGE suite featured a unique VR/AR ideation workshop that will lead now to future projects. October 6, 2017

 

Great Journals

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Contributes to journals and magazines worldwide. And has four journal editing obsessions:

New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing (Routledge/Taylor and Francis), the first independent journal for Creative Writing in universities and colleges.. A research journal, a journal for creative works, discussions of creative writing, writers, and the teaching of creative writing, (See Below)

Studies in European Cinema, (Intellect) Graeme edits this with Owen Evans. In this journal film experts worldwide debate European film, past and present, within Europe and European film traditions adopted and adapted around the world.

The Creative Industries Journal. (Intellect) Graeme works with Debi Hayes on this one. He's Editor, along Debi is Associate Editor. Discussion of the World's most vibrant economic sector: the creative sector!

Journal of European Popular Culture. investigates the creative cultures of Europe, present and past. Graeme edits this with Owen and Cristina. Exploring European imagery, media, new media, film, music, art and design, architecture, drama and dance, fine art, literature and the writing arts, and more, the journal is also of interest to those considering the influence of European creativity and European creative artefacts worldwide

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Projects

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Universities are places where knowledge dwells, where knowledge can be explored and where knowledge can independently develop. The following projects highlight this process:

Great Writing. The international conference. Now in its 27th great year. The 2024 Great Writing International Creative Writing Conference will be held July 13-14 2024 at University College, London.

Creative Knowledge and Successful Habitats. A project to determine the extent to which creative knowledge can inform the development of successful cost-effective human habitats. This project is also connected to the Medical Habitats project.

Creative Lab. Cross-disciplinary creative research, through new digital experience ("synaptic") technologies.

The Creative Writing Studies Center. Exploring creative writing through critical exploration, creative practice, and discussion. A global initiative.

Research Innovation. The good undertake, but the best innovate

Projectorings. Developing medical space with vision and sound - a collaboration considering how imaginative knowledge, applied to medical architecture, can better support human thriving.

ARTEFACT. Investigating the historical artefacts of creative practice.

Emeritus.org. The world's scholarly talent, at any age. Developing a lifelong knowledge stream.

Creative Universities. An international universities network promoting the university ideal.

International Center for Creative Writing Research (ICCWR). An international Creative Writing initiative - the first of its kind. All welcome!

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