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Volume 8, Issue 1 (2023)

From the Editors

Research Pipeline? How About Research Forest?
Jen Hirt

Research: Qualitative and Quantitative

Barriers to Creative Writing Among University Students in Qatar
Sam Meekings Dr, Lujain Assaf, Gwiza Gwiza, Tayyibah Kazim, and Laiba Mubashar

Theory, Culture, and Craft

The De-Indigenisation of the English Language: On Linguistic Idiosyncrasy
FAYSSAL BENSALAH

Speaking the Unspoken: Reconsidering the Craft of Subtext in Fiction through Nafissa Thompson-Spires’s Use of Palimptext in “Heads of the Colored People”
Karen Lee Boren

Pedagogy

Crossing the Boundaries: Integrating Poetry Writing with Translation Practice
Xia Fang

Rethinking Length and Form in Fiction: Workshopping Short Stories, Novels, Novellas, Flash, and Hybrid
Kevin Clouther

Digital and Multimodal/Multimedia

Why Poetry Comics? An overview of the form's origins, creative potential, and pedagogical benefits
Mara Beneway

Reviews

Cathy Park Hong’s Minor Feelings: Major Reckonings on the Asian-American Identitarian Writer
Wally Suphap Esq.

Craft Through the Lens of Marginalized Identities
Grace Sikorski

Teaching Creative Writing in Asia
MD MUJIB ULLAH

Creative Writing in Asia: Places, Languages, Societies, and Cultures – Plural
Elena Traina