Writing As Dialogue ― Practices of Editors and Mentors in Contemporary Literature

Although practices of editing and mentoring are part of an author’s daily activities, they have previously been largely neglected by literary studies. The bilingual volume therefore assembles players from the fields of literary production and theories of authorship and the writing process, who discuss the development toward an opening up of the creative writing process. Their contributions encompass not only reports of experiences made by authors, editors, and mentors and insights into teaching methods applied in creative writing classes at higher-education institutions in Europe and the U.S. They also explore theoretical approaches to an intersubjective literary practice as well as suggestions for the definition of a dialogic notion of literature in the age of online publishing.

Johanne Mohs is a postdoctoral researcher at the Bern University of the Arts.

Katrin Zimmermann is an associate at the research institute of the Bern University of the Arts.

Marie Caffari is the director of the Swiss Literature Institute at the Bern University of the Arts.