In an era of blurred generic boundaries, multimedia storytelling, and open-source culture, creative writing scholars stand poised to consider the role that technology-and the creative writer's playful engagement with technology-has occupied in the evolution of its theory and practice. Composition, Creative Writing Studies and the Digital Humanities is the first book to bring these three fields together to open up new opportunities and directions for creative writing studies. Placing the rise of Creative Writing Studies alongside the rise of the digital humanities in Composition/Rhetoric, Adam Koehler shows that the use of new media and its attendant re-evaluation of fundamental assumptions in the field stands to guide Creative Writing Studies into a new era. Covering current developments in composition and the digital humanities, this book re-examines established assumptions about process, genre, authority/authorship and pedagogical practice in the creative writing classroom.

In this story, you are the star. You wake up as just an average kid about to have a perfectly humdrum Saturday. But then, and you'll never see this one coming, you are flung headlong into the adventure of a lifetime. With a powerful skeleton key that allows you to open up any lock you come across, you set off for New York City. But be warned, youthful reader, there will be danger at every turn. If you've been yearning for a book soaked in the nostalgia of kids choice-based adventure books from the '80's and early '90's, this is it.

In these 40 colorful tales of immature monks, short-fused masters, humiliated priests and happy-go-lucky Buddhas, author Adam Koehler invites you to dabble in Eastern philosophy and walk the path towards unenlightenment. The stories scattered amongst these delicate pages of paper are delivered with a wink but not a smirk. Never a smirk. And even though these ancient parables have been changed beyond all recognition, there is still much to learn. Or at least laugh and point at.

In an era of blurred generic boundaries, multimedia storytelling, and open-source culture, creative writing scholars stand poised to consider the role that technology-and the creative writer's playful engagement with technology-has occupied in the evolution of its theory and practice. Composition, Creative Writing Studies and the Digital Humanities is the first book to bring these three fields together to open up new opportunities and directions for creative writing studies. Placing the rise of Creative Writing Studies alongside the rise of the digital humanities in Composition/Rhetoric, Adam Koehler shows that the use of new media and its attendant re-evaluation of fundamental assumptions in the field stands to guide Creative Writing Studies into a new era. Covering current developments in composition and the digital humanities, this book re-examines established assumptions about process, genre, authority/authorship and pedagogical practice in the creative writing classroom.