As creative writing researchers, we are often expected to talk in and about writing’s forms. For this “article,” we set out to discover how collective thinking shapes form through creativecritical writing, investigating what emerges when creative writers across disciplines move through their respective thinking and forming of forms in a shared space. This article examines how collective authorship influences form. In Movement One, the authors explore their individual relationships with (the limits of) writing forms; Movement Two considers what form is possible when we “form” together through exchange, debate and play; Movement Three exits the more “playful” space of creative exchange to reflect more critically on our collective form-ing, before Movement Four offers a spatiotemporal metaphor for that form-ing. Creative writing academics are, it seems, at the forefront of expanding scholarly “forms” of discourse; we offer this creativecritical article as a contribution to this evolving literature, especially in relation to collective or collaborative writing scholarship.
Hedley et al. (Wed,) studied this question.