Introduction: creative writing and the persistence of "lore" / by Kelly Ritter and Stephanie Vanderslice
Figuring the future: lore and/in creative writing / Tim Mayers
Against reading / Katherine Haake
Charming tyrants and faceless facilitators: the lore of teaching identities in creative writing / Mary Ann Cain
"A better time teaching": a dialogue about pedagogy and the Antioch-LA MFA / David Starkey and Eloise Klein Healy
Both sides of the desk: experiencing creative writing lore as a student and as a professor / Priscila Uppal
Creativity, caring, and the easy "A": rethinking the role of self-esteem in creative writing pedagogy / Anna Leahy
Writing in public: popular pedagogies of creative writing / Michelle Cross
Putting wings on the invisible: voice, authorship and the authentic self / Patrick Bizarro and Mike McClanahan
Box office poison: the influence of writers in films on writers (in graduate programs) / Wendy Bishop and Stephen Armstrong
After words: lore and discipline / Peter Vandenberg.