In Conversations on Creative Process, Methods, Research and Practice: Feminist Approaches to Nurturing the Creative Self, interviewees discuss how their creativity has helped them to overcome challenges or difficulties they have faced in their lives including grief, health issues, prejudice, divorce, maternity and creative blocks. The book uses original material – research and interviews – to explore the nature of the creative process from the perspective of understanding the activities, thoughts and feelings that shape an individual artist’s creative practice and how this might inform a wider collective understanding of creativity and how it can help us to live well. The book suggests that individual creative practice is a means of coming to know the self and your place in the world a little better and perhaps a little differently.
Jess is a Principal Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Brighton, where she leads our Creative Writing MA. She is also Co-director of the Centre for Arts and Wellbeing. Jess is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and has published extensively on autoethnography and creative writing pedagogy. She has co-edited the book with Christina Reading, an independent artist and writer who lives and works in Brighton.
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