Leahy, Anna, Ed. Foreword. Power and Identity in the Creative Writing Classroom. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters Ltd, 2005.

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Leahy, Anna, Ed. Foreword. Power and Identity in the Creative Writing Classroom: The Authority Project. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters Ltd, 2005.

The foreword lays the groundwork for the book, "which asserts that authority-conscious pedagogy can and should shape our field in general and should guide our individual decisions about how we define ourselves and how we teach the subject in today's classrooms" (x). Background is offered about the beginnings of the fiction workshop: the Iowa Writers' Workshop, established in 1936, "14 years after the institution deemed creative work acceptable as a graduate thesis," and even earlier forms of the workshop, including one when Henry Wadsworth Longfellow accepted a professorship in 1829 until he could make enough from his writing to support himself (xi).