For many years now the professional -creative writer- within universities and other institutions has encompassed a range of roles, embracing a plurality of scholarly and creative identities. The often complex relation between those identities forms the broad focus of this book, which also examines various, and variously fraught, dialogues between creative writers, -hybrid- writers and academic colleagues from other subjects within single institutions, and with the public and the media. At the heart of the book is the principle of -creative writing- as a fully-fledged discipline, an important...