Creative Critical
@creativecritical.bsky.social
creativecritical.net is an online journal for writing and teaching that explores the relationship between creative and critical practices
Eds: Irina Dumitrescu, Gabriel Flynn & Thomas Karshan
Submissions: [email protected]
Eds: Irina Dumitrescu, Gabriel Flynn & Thomas Karshan
Submissions: [email protected]
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Welcome to Creative Critical - Creative-Critical
creativecritical.net
creativecritical.net is open for submissions!
Please send your
> essays, poems, stories, translations
> reflections on the relationship between creative and critical practice
> course materials or syllabi that incorporate creative work into critical teaching
to [email protected]
Please send your
> essays, poems, stories, translations
> reflections on the relationship between creative and critical practice
> course materials or syllabi that incorporate creative work into critical teaching
to [email protected]
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creativecritical.net is open for submissions!
Please send your
> essays, poems, stories, translations
> reflections on the relationship between creative and critical practice
> course materials or syllabi that incorporate creative work into critical teaching
to [email protected]
Please send your
> essays, poems, stories, translations
> reflections on the relationship between creative and critical practice
> course materials or syllabi that incorporate creative work into critical teaching
to [email protected]
Welcome to Creative Critical - Creative-Critical
creativecritical.net
January 21, 2026 at 2:04 PM
creativecritical.net is open for submissions!
Please send your
> essays, poems, stories, translations
> reflections on the relationship between creative and critical practice
> course materials or syllabi that incorporate creative work into critical teaching
to [email protected]
Please send your
> essays, poems, stories, translations
> reflections on the relationship between creative and critical practice
> course materials or syllabi that incorporate creative work into critical teaching
to [email protected]
creativecritical.net is open for submissions!
Please send your
> essays, poems, stories, translations
> reflections on the relationship between creative and critical practice
> course materials or syllabi that incorporate creative work into critical teaching
to [email protected]
Please send your
> essays, poems, stories, translations
> reflections on the relationship between creative and critical practice
> course materials or syllabi that incorporate creative work into critical teaching
to [email protected]
Welcome to Creative Critical - Creative-Critical
creativecritical.net
January 21, 2026 at 2:04 PM
creativecritical.net is open for submissions!
Please send your
> essays, poems, stories, translations
> reflections on the relationship between creative and critical practice
> course materials or syllabi that incorporate creative work into critical teaching
to [email protected]
Please send your
> essays, poems, stories, translations
> reflections on the relationship between creative and critical practice
> course materials or syllabi that incorporate creative work into critical teaching
to [email protected]
What books did you have to read in school?
Think it’d be cool to do a book club unit called “the global canon.” Kids group up around a book all kids are required to read in another country. Ex: Iceland? Njals Saga.
No idea how this will go, but worth a shot: If you went to school outside the US, what did you have to read?
No idea how this will go, but worth a shot: If you went to school outside the US, what did you have to read?
January 21, 2026 at 1:54 PM
What books did you have to read in school?
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“Sustainable, infinite, inspiring,” Nicholas Royle called A Personal Anthology.
Tomorrow’s edition, with a dozen handpicked short story recommendations, comes courtesy of guest editor Tim MacGabhann.
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Tomorrow’s edition, with a dozen handpicked short story recommendations, comes courtesy of guest editor Tim MacGabhann.
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About - A Personal Anthology
A weekly guest-editor picks and introduces a personal anthology of twelve favourite short stories. Click to read A Personal Anthology, by Jonathan Gibbs, a Substack publication with thousands of subsc...
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October 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
“Sustainable, infinite, inspiring,” Nicholas Royle called A Personal Anthology.
Tomorrow’s edition, with a dozen handpicked short story recommendations, comes courtesy of guest editor Tim MacGabhann.
Sign up below, or RT if you already subscribe!
apersonalanthology.substack.com/about
Tomorrow’s edition, with a dozen handpicked short story recommendations, comes courtesy of guest editor Tim MacGabhann.
Sign up below, or RT if you already subscribe!
apersonalanthology.substack.com/about
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I wrote about writing about a long ago trip to Faslane Peace Camp, very happy to see it published today by the excellent @minorliteratures.bsky.social. Read on desktop because the formatting is important!
October 23, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I wrote about writing about a long ago trip to Faslane Peace Camp, very happy to see it published today by the excellent @minorliteratures.bsky.social. Read on desktop because the formatting is important!
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This was a fantastic colloquium and it’s great to see all the materials & keynote up on Creative Critical dot net! Check it out 👇
New on our website: What Is Creative Criticism? A Field Report on a Colloquium at Oxford, hosted by Joe Moshenska and Iris Pearson and with a keynote by Mary Capello.
What is Creative Criticism? - A Field Report on a Colloquium: Oxford, June 2024 - Creative-Critical
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August 15, 2025 at 8:20 PM
This was a fantastic colloquium and it’s great to see all the materials & keynote up on Creative Critical dot net! Check it out 👇
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“Every man who plays with literature at all must be ambitious to
succeed in some form of art that may be called 'creative,' as distinct from critical—a distinction which, since Arnold taught us our lesson, we know does not exist. ” Macy's nascent Creative-criticsm @creativecritical.bsky.social
succeed in some form of art that may be called 'creative,' as distinct from critical—a distinction which, since Arnold taught us our lesson, we know does not exist. ” Macy's nascent Creative-criticsm @creativecritical.bsky.social
Quoted in John Albert Macy's The Critical Game, 1922. A curious book that I wish I had know about when playing my own Critical Games.
“Contre l'opinion commune, la critique est peut-être le plus subjectif de tous les genres littéraires; c'est une confession perpétuelle; en croyant analyser les œuvres d'autrui, c'est soi-même que l'on dévoile et que l'on expose au public." Remy de Gourmont
August 18, 2025 at 5:29 PM
“Every man who plays with literature at all must be ambitious to
succeed in some form of art that may be called 'creative,' as distinct from critical—a distinction which, since Arnold taught us our lesson, we know does not exist. ” Macy's nascent Creative-criticsm @creativecritical.bsky.social
succeed in some form of art that may be called 'creative,' as distinct from critical—a distinction which, since Arnold taught us our lesson, we know does not exist. ” Macy's nascent Creative-criticsm @creativecritical.bsky.social
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If anyone on here has received an RSL Literature Matter Award and would be up for sharing their application, I'd be v grateful!
June 30, 2025 at 12:30 PM
If anyone on here has received an RSL Literature Matter Award and would be up for sharing their application, I'd be v grateful!
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Published today! My book on play and seriousness.
“… explodes all academic frames and expectations.” Emmanuel Carrère @manchesterup.bsky.social
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526177766/
“… explodes all academic frames and expectations.” Emmanuel Carrère @manchesterup.bsky.social
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526177766/
Manchester University Press - Critical games
Critical games - Browse and buy the eBook edition of Critical games by Tim Beasley-Murray
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June 17, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Published today! My book on play and seriousness.
“… explodes all academic frames and expectations.” Emmanuel Carrère @manchesterup.bsky.social
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526177766/
“… explodes all academic frames and expectations.” Emmanuel Carrère @manchesterup.bsky.social
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526177766/
New on our website: What Is Creative Criticism? A Field Report on a Colloquium at Oxford, hosted by Joe Moshenska and Iris Pearson and with a keynote by Mary Capello.
What is Creative Criticism? - A Field Report on a Colloquium: Oxford, June 2024 - Creative-Critical
creativecritical.net
June 20, 2025 at 2:33 PM
New on our website: What Is Creative Criticism? A Field Report on a Colloquium at Oxford, hosted by Joe Moshenska and Iris Pearson and with a keynote by Mary Capello.
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Help John help us 👇
May 27, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Help John help us 👇
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“audacious, polemical, essential”
*Fair: The Life-Art of Translation* got a dream review in The Observer New Review today !!! Out Friday from @prototypepubs.bsky.social
*Fair: The Life-Art of Translation* got a dream review in The Observer New Review today !!! Out Friday from @prototypepubs.bsky.social
May 25, 2025 at 1:19 PM
“audacious, polemical, essential”
*Fair: The Life-Art of Translation* got a dream review in The Observer New Review today !!! Out Friday from @prototypepubs.bsky.social
*Fair: The Life-Art of Translation* got a dream review in The Observer New Review today !!! Out Friday from @prototypepubs.bsky.social
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New on our website: @victoriamoul.bsky.social writes about 'The Role of Verse Paraphrase in Early Modern Education and Literary Culture'
An Historical Model for Creative-Critical Practice - Creative-Critical
The Role of Verse Paraphrase in Early Modern Education and Literary Culture By Victoria Moul
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May 19, 2025 at 1:29 PM
New on our website: @victoriamoul.bsky.social writes about 'The Role of Verse Paraphrase in Early Modern Education and Literary Culture'
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New on our website: @victoriamoul.bsky.social writes about 'The Role of Verse Paraphrase in Early Modern Education and Literary Culture'
An Historical Model for Creative-Critical Practice - Creative-Critical
The Role of Verse Paraphrase in Early Modern Education and Literary Culture By Victoria Moul
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May 20, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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Just one more day to submit for Tolka Issue Ten. Send us your non-fiction, memoir, essays, autofiction, and anything that falls in between. Submissions close midnight, Wednesday 21 May.
May 20, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Just one more day to submit for Tolka Issue Ten. Send us your non-fiction, memoir, essays, autofiction, and anything that falls in between. Submissions close midnight, Wednesday 21 May.
New on our website: @victoriamoul.bsky.social writes about 'The Role of Verse Paraphrase in Early Modern Education and Literary Culture'
An Historical Model for Creative-Critical Practice - Creative-Critical
The Role of Verse Paraphrase in Early Modern Education and Literary Culture By Victoria Moul
creativecritical.net
May 19, 2025 at 1:29 PM
New on our website: @victoriamoul.bsky.social writes about 'The Role of Verse Paraphrase in Early Modern Education and Literary Culture'
One such haunted poet is David Miller, whose 'Then and Here: A meditation on Gérard de Nerval' we published in 2022...
April 28, 2025 at 9:44 AM
One such haunted poet is David Miller, whose 'Then and Here: A meditation on Gérard de Nerval' we published in 2022...
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'...this could be equally true for the poem, which is also a stain between its poles; an indiscriminately word-covered darkness, the thick blackness of airless language – and opposing it, a white and wordless silence.'
Denise Riley, 'Staining, egging, binding'
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Denise Riley, 'Staining, egging, binding'
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February 22, 2025 at 2:53 PM
'...this could be equally true for the poem, which is also a stain between its poles; an indiscriminately word-covered darkness, the thick blackness of airless language – and opposing it, a white and wordless silence.'
Denise Riley, 'Staining, egging, binding'
creativecritical.net/staining-egg...
Denise Riley, 'Staining, egging, binding'
creativecritical.net/staining-egg...
'...this could be equally true for the poem, which is also a stain between its poles; an indiscriminately word-covered darkness, the thick blackness of airless language – and opposing it, a white and wordless silence.'
Denise Riley, 'Staining, egging, binding'
creativecritical.net/staining-egg...
Denise Riley, 'Staining, egging, binding'
creativecritical.net/staining-egg...
February 22, 2025 at 2:53 PM
'...this could be equally true for the poem, which is also a stain between its poles; an indiscriminately word-covered darkness, the thick blackness of airless language – and opposing it, a white and wordless silence.'
Denise Riley, 'Staining, egging, binding'
creativecritical.net/staining-egg...
Denise Riley, 'Staining, egging, binding'
creativecritical.net/staining-egg...
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This year I’ll be writing the ‘Fiction 1945-2000’ section for the 2024 edition of The Year’s Work in English Studies. If you published a monograph / chapter / article on (or mostly on) British fiction from 1945 to 2000 between 1st January and 31st December 2024, please let me know! Thanks
February 21, 2025 at 11:57 AM
This year I’ll be writing the ‘Fiction 1945-2000’ section for the 2024 edition of The Year’s Work in English Studies. If you published a monograph / chapter / article on (or mostly on) British fiction from 1945 to 2000 between 1st January and 31st December 2024, please let me know! Thanks
‘Poetics takes structural homologies from science and philosophy, but also from gardening and pinball, if it needs to.’
From our archive: @robertsheppard.bsky.social on poetics
From our archive: @robertsheppard.bsky.social on poetics
Gathering from the Past - Creative-Critical
'Gathering from the Past' by Robert Sheppard, part of 'Poetics: A Blog'
creativecritical.net
February 21, 2025 at 11:28 AM
‘Poetics takes structural homologies from science and philosophy, but also from gardening and pinball, if it needs to.’
From our archive: @robertsheppard.bsky.social on poetics
From our archive: @robertsheppard.bsky.social on poetics
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Friends, creativecritical.net is now on Bluesky! It's an online journal and resource co-edited by Thomas Karshan, Gabriel Flynn, and myself, dedicated to bridging the gap between creative and critical practices.
Welcome to Creative Critical - Creative-Critical
creativecritical.net
February 20, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Friends, creativecritical.net is now on Bluesky! It's an online journal and resource co-edited by Thomas Karshan, Gabriel Flynn, and myself, dedicated to bridging the gap between creative and critical practices.
From our archive: 'Why I'm No Longer a Proper Academic' by @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social
Why I'm No Longer a Proper Academic - Creative-Critical
By Irina Dumitrescu. A talk given at the Creative Critical launch event at UCL's Institute for Advanced Studies in September 2022.
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February 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
From our archive: 'Why I'm No Longer a Proper Academic' by @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social