Did anyone mention the marketplace? Review of Dianne Donnelly and Graeme Harper (eds) 'Key Issues in Creative Writing' Multilingual Matters, Bristol UK 2012: ISBN 978-1-84769-846-9 Pb 208pp GBP19.96

This volume, edited by Dianne Donnelly and Graeme Harper who are both establishing significant profiles in research on creative writing, offers some topics of worth. Both editors contribute two chapters each and collaborate on the introduction and conclusion. Other chapters come from Mimi Thebo, Steve Healey, Katharine Haake, Stephanie Vanderslice, Indigo Perry, Nigel McLoughlin and Patrick Bizzaro. Indigo Perry's and Graeme Harper's Australian connections are the most significant Antipodean contribution to this book, though Donnelly and Harper, in particular, both refer to Australian research in their chapters and, happily, it is not ignored by other writers. The teaching of creative writing in the US, the UK and Australia is consistently referred to, so the book offers quite a bit for Australian readers.