Creative writing Books
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Critical Creative Writing
Book SynopsisBringing together 25 essential works of creative writing criticism in a single volume, this is a comprehensive introduction to the key debates in creative writing today, from the ethics of appropriation to the politics of literary evaluation. Critical Creative Writing covers such topics as: Craft & Politics Language & Community Identity & Authorship Representation & Counternarrative Appropriation & Intertextuality Evaluation & Genre The book anthologizes critical essays written by international literary writers. Each essay is contextualized with an introduction as well as sample questions, writing prompts and suggested readings. The book also has a companion website (www.criticalcreativewriting.org) offering supplemental materials such as lesson plans and course materials. Includes writings by: Ayana Mathis, Leslie Marmon Silko, Craig Santos Perez, Natasha Sajé, Porochista Khakpour, Taiye Selasi, Michael Nardone, Conchitina Cruz, Benjamin Paloff, Dorothy Wang, and many moreTrade ReviewEvery writer wonders how their work will be received, but you can demystify the critical process with this book of essays, which includes discussions on the intersection of writing with politics and identity. * Bustle *Table of ContentsEditorial Note and Introduction For Students For Instructors Chapter 1: Craft Chapter 2: Identity Chapter 3: Privilege Chapter 4: Representation Chapter 5: Language Chapter 6: Appropriation Chapter 7: Evaluation Credits Acknowledgments Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Offside Modern Plays
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Love Modern Plays
Trade ReviewIt’s an elegy to an invisible class ... This is character-driven theatre at its purest ... It’s a play about what unremitting poverty does to the soul, where poverty is not starvation, but life without dignity. * Spectator on "Beyond Caring" *Beyond Caring seethes. It brings your blood to boiling point. * Time Out *Totally compelling ... This understated 90 minutes is quietly devastating ... As time moves, slowly, the whole thing gradually becomes more and more heightened, emotionally and theatrically. The beauty of the piece ... is that it eschews sob stories in favour of genuine tragedy. Just as these people keep themselves pretty much to themselves until the final, desperate moments, so the play always slyly shows and never tells. There are no big speeches. There is much awkward silence. People reveal themselves in small gestures ... There are gusts of sadness; moments of pure desolation. But mostly there is work, with people struggling to survive: to the end of the shift, the end of the day, to the end of life itself. * Guardian on "Beyond Caring" *This desolate, quietly intense devised drama gets under your skin and into your bones ... it's a ringing condemnation of an economic practice that puts profit before people and turns the basic business of earning a living into a barely sustainable, soul-destroying hell. Unforgettable. * The Times on "Beyond Caring" *Alexander Zeldin's devised drama gives an unforgettable taste of life at the bottom of the employment pile ... it has a rare quality of gripping authenticity. * Daily Telegraph on "Beyond Caring" *Zeldin boldly sticks to unostentatious naturalism and draws the audience into this world ... this raw, unsentimental piece has immense cumulative power and quietly conveys just what it means to live with such a crippling lack of security. * Financial Times on "Beyond Caring" *Beyond Caring is beyond praise * International New York Times *
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Snow In Midsummer Modern Plays
Trade ReviewCowhig speaks bitterness and makes us sit up and listen. -- Lyn Gardner * Guardian on Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig's "The World of Extreme Happiness" *Fearless, zippily-paced, and satirical . . . Cowhig forces us down the long hard look path. * Independent on Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig's "The World of Extreme Happiness" *Fiercely intelligent . . . powerful stuff * Guardian on Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig's "Lidless" *An excellent new play . . . a very strong script . . . The story grips and the characters are well drawn, demonstrating the complexities of human nature and the ability people have to put morals to one side. * Daily Telegraph on Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig's "Lidless" *Vital new writing from a talented new voice * Independent on Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig's "Lidless" *
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Beyond Craft
Book SynopsisSimultaneously a handbook and a critique of one, Beyond Craft combines an orientation to the field of creative writing with an insight into current scholarship surrounding creative writing pedagogy. A much-needed alternative to the traditional craft guide, this text pairs advice and exercises on composition with an illuminating commentary on the issues surrounding these very techniques. Teaching the craft whilst apprising students of the issues of craft pedagogy, this book allows them to gain an awareness of how current pedagogy comes at the expense of larger and increasingly relevant cultural concerns. Westbrook and Ryan bring emerging writers into the larger conversations that define the field, inviting them to: - Contextualize their own writing practices and educational experiences in relation to the history of creative writing as an academic discipline. - Determine how New Critical lore and Romantic mythology may affecteven distorttheir understanding of literary productionTrade ReviewBeyond Craft is a carefully researched book capable of terrifying and inspiring writers all at once. Sometimes it is hard not to feel overwhelmed when presented with so many reasons to give up the practice; however, such brutally honest research not only contributes to dismantle unhelpful myths but also empowers writers to actively look for ways to change what is currently not working. For example, now that we understand how the image of the writer has been manipulated to promote harmful concepts like literary greatness and genius, we can get rid of such an awkward burden, and, as this handbook suggests, make room to new ideas reinventing what it means to be a creative writer in the 21st century. * Elena Traina, Journal of Creative Writing Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments An Introduction: By Way of Boxes and Paradoxes (and Too Many Lines About Felines) Section 1: Where Creative Writing Comes From Chapter 1: Art for Art’s Sake & Craft for Craft’s Sake: Our Love-Hate Relationship with the Academic History of Creative Writing Chapter 2: Smoked Dispersed in the Ether: Authors’ Creation Myths and the Problem with Genius Chapter 3: Repurposing Spontaneity: From Inspiration to Invention Section 2: Who Creative Writers Are (in Relation to Others) Chapter 4: Beyond A Room of One’s Own: Toward Collaborative Understandings of Authorship Chapter 5: Making Collaboration Explicit: Co-Creating With Actual Others Section 3: Where Writers Find Their Audiences, or How Publishing Works Chapter 6: What Your Creative Writing Teacher May Not Have Told You: On The Problem of “Greatness” in the Literary Marketplace Chapter 7: Commercial Publishing: Cumulative Advantage and Marketing Magic Chapter 8: Small Literary Publishing: Understanding the Pitfalls of Prestige at Independent and University Presses 193 Chapter 9: Self-Publishing in the Internet Age, or the eBook that (Nearly) Ate the World Section 4: What the Future of Creative Writing Might Look Like Chapter 10: Misbehaving On and Off of the Page: Toward the Literature of Tomorrow Works Cited
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Fantasy Fiction
Book SynopsisThe first fantasy-writing textbook to combine a historical genre overview with an anthology and comprehensive craft guide, this book explores the blue prints of one of the most popular forms of genre fiction. The first section will acquaint readers with the vast canon of existing fantasy fiction and outline the many sub-genres encompassed within it before examining the important relationship between fantasy and creative writing, the academy and publishing. A craft guide follows which equips students with the key concepts of storytelling as they are impacted by writing through a fantastical lens. These include: - Character and dialogue - Point of view - Plot and structure - Worldbuilding settings, ideologies and cultures - Style and revision The third section guides students through the spectrum of styles as they are classified in fantasy fiction from Epic and high fantasy, through Lovecraftian and Weird fiction, to magical realism and hybrid faTrade ReviewA thorough take on the Fantasy genre by someone who clearly loves the genre, and a welcome addition to an academic field that deserves more scholarship. * Nicole Peeler, Director of the Writing Popular Fiction Program, Seton Hill University, USA *Jennifer Pullen’s Fantasy Fiction: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology is the book students and teachers of not only Fantasy fiction but also fiction writ large have been waiting for. Capacious, generous, and wise, it deftly embraces history, inhabits our current cultural moment, and enables the future. An instant classic. * Stephanie Vanderslice, Professor of Creative Writing and Co-Director Arkansas Writers MFA Workshop, University of Central Arkansas, USA *Table of ContentsTable of Contents Section 1: An Introduction to Fantasy Writing Introduction Chapter 1: Fantasy and Its Evolution Chapter 2: Fantasy Genres (a mostly comprehensive review) Chapter 3: Fantasy Fiction, Publishing, and Creative Writing in the Academy Section 2: The Craft of Fantasy Writing Chapter 4: Character and Dialogue Chapter 5: Point of View Chapter 6: Structure and Plot Chapter 7: Worldbuilding Part 1 Chapter 8: Worldbuilding Part 2 Chapter 9: Worldbuilding Part 3 Chapter 10: Style and Revision Discussion Questions and Writing Activities Section 3: Genres and Styles of Fantasy Writing Chapter 11: Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, and Sword and Sorcery Fantasy Chapter 12: Historical Fantasy Chapter 13: Weird Fiction, Lovecraftian Fantasy, Gothic Fantasy, and Cosmic Horror Chapter 14: Contemporary and Urban Fantasy Chapter 15: Fabulism and Magical Realism Chapter 16: Mythic, Fairy Tale, Folkloric, and Fairy Fantasy Chapter 17: Hybrid Fantasy Conclusion Anthology Cooney—Martyr’s Gem Donaldson—The Albatrosses Goss—England Under the White Witch Jones—The Night Bazaar for Women Becoming Reptiles Le Guin—The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas Liu—Good Hunting Miéville—The Condition of New Death Murray—La Llorona Roanhorse—Harvest Samatar—Meet Me in Iram Singh—A Handful of Rice Ulmer—Red Valentine— From the Catalogue of the Pavilion of the Marvelous, Scheduled for Premiere at the Great Exhibition (Before the Fire) Notes and References
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Methuen Drama Feminism Dramaturgy and the Contemporary British History Play
Book SynopsisRebecca Benzie is a Lecturer in Theatre at the University of York, UK. Her research interests include feminist theatre practices, new playwriting, and acts of commemoration. She is an experienced theatre practitioner and dramaturg, specialising in devised theatre and textual adaptation. Her recent publications comprise a chapter in The Cambridge Companion to British Theatre of the First World War (2023) and a co-authored journal article on the history play for Studies in Theatre and Performance (2023).
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Story Thinking and the Realworld Applications of SciFi and Fantasy Writing
Book SynopsisIn the 21st century, the rapid advance of technology and the existential threat of climate breakdown mean the real world increasingly resembles something out of fiction, filled with ambiguity and uncertainty. Such challenges need imaginative, creative solutions. To find them, teams of experts must pool their knowledge, make new connections, and forge paths forward. In Story Thinking, award-winning authors Helen Marshall, Kim Wilkins, and Lisa Bennett show how the principles of science fiction and fantasy writing which speculate about and imagine different futures, people, and worlds - can enrich research in such areas as government policy, technology innovation, and healthcare within universities and various industries. When transferred to research, story thinking as a method can help to build teams with a shared sense of purpose, offer new patterns of thought for improvisation, rapid perspective shifts, worldbuilding, pleasure and playfulness. Split into two parts - co
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Writing and Health Care
Book SynopsisJanelle Adsit is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, USA. She is editor of the anthology Critical Creative Writing; co-author of Writing Intersectional Identities; and author of Toward an Inclusive Creative Writing (Bloomsbury, 2019). She also has written a book of poems titled Unremitting Entrance (2015). In the community and with her local Hospice, Adsit co-facilitates writing workshops that address stress, pain, and grief. As an extension of these workshops, Adsit's research is located within the fields of Arts in Health and Narrative Medicine.
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Bloomsbury Academic The Black Writers Toolbox
Book SynopsisMuli Amaye is the Coordinator for the MFA in Creative Writing at The University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobego. A novelist, short story writer and occasional poet, she gained her PhD in creative writing at Lancaster University, UK where she also taught for several years before developing the English programme at Soran University, Northern Iraq. Her novel A House With No Angels was published in 2019 and her short stories have been published in Midnight & Indigo Literary Journal and the anthology Glimpse.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Reading and Writing for Change
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) ShortForm Creative Writing
Book SynopsisH. K. Hummel is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA. She is the author of the poetry collections, Lessons in Breathing Underwater, Boytreebird, and Handmade Boats.Stephanie Lenox is an instructional editor for Chemeketa Press at Chemeketa Community College, USA. She is the author of the poetry collections, The Business, Congress of Strange People, and The Heart That Lies Outside the Body.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Creative Writing in PostSecondary Education
Book SynopsisLisa Martin is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at MacEwan University, Canada. She is an award-winning essayist and poet and has taught literature, academic writing, and creative writing to university students since 2007.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) A Fiction Writers Guide to Peace
Book SynopsisGabriel Ertsgaard is Interviews Editor for the Peace Chronicle and Copy Editor for the poetry journal Drifting Sands Haibun. He also serves on the board of directors for the Quaker magazine Western Friend. He has taught university English courses for the past decade, and is the author of numerous poems, short stories, and nonfiction articles. He holds a Doctor of Letters with a concentration in Global Studies from Drew University, USA.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Creative Writing Workshop in the 21st Century
Book SynopsisAdrian Markle is Lecturer in Creative Writing at Falmouth University, UK. He has a PhD in English by Creative Practice from the University of Exeter and a Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching Creative Writing from the University of Cambridge. He is the co-author of a chapter in the pedagogy text The Power of Storytelling in Hong Kong Education (2024) as well as several short pedagogy essays. He is the author numerous short stories and the novel Bruise 2024).Marshall Moore is Course Leader and Senior Lecturer in the School of Communication at Falmouth University, UK. He is the author of several novels and collections of short fiction, the most recent being Inhospitable (2018). With Xu Xi, he is the co-editor of the anthology The Queen of Statue Square: New Short Fiction from Hong Kong (2015). He holds a PhD in creative writing from Aberystwyth University, UK, and his current research focuses on the disconnects between the publishing industry and the academy, and on the mythology and lore that surround creative practice and pedagogy.Sam Meekings is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Northwestern University in Qatar. He is the author of Under Fishbone Clouds (2011, called a poetic evocation of the country and its people' by the New York Times), The Book of Crows (2012), and The Afterlives of Dr Gachet (2018). He has a PhD in creative writing from Lancaster University, UK, and has taught writing at NYU (Global Campus) and the University of Chichester, UK. He researches issues of identity in grief narratives, and the practices and processes of digital storytelling.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Inarticulacy in Creative Writing Practice and Translation
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Translingual Creative Writing Theory Practice and Pedagogy
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Writing the Hard Stuff
Book SynopsisNicole Walker is the author of Processed Meats: Essays on Food, Flesh and Navigating Disaster (2021) Sustainability: A Love Story (2018) and the collaborative collection The After-Normal: Brief, Alphabetical Essays on a Changing Planet. (2019). She has previously published the nonfiction collections Where the Tiny Things Are (2017), Egg (2017), Micrograms (2016), Quench Your Thirst with Salt (2013), and a book of poems, This Noisy Egg (2010). She edited for Bloomsbury the essay collections Science of Story (2019) with Sean Prentiss and Bending Genre: Essays on Creative Nonfiction (2013) with Margot Singer. She is the co-president of NonfictioNOW and is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts award and a noted author in Best American Essays. Her work has been most recently published in the New York Times, Longreads, and Ploughshares, among other places. She teaches at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, AZ and serves as the Crux Series Editor.
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Bloomsbury Academic Creativity and Contingency in Literary Writing
Book SynopsisKarin Kukkonen is Professor in Comparative Literature at the University of Oslo, Norway. She has published several monographs, including Probability Designs (2020). Having previously held positions in Finland and the UK, she now leads the interdisciplinary centre LCE Literature, Cognition and Emotions, where she established the LCE podcast which explores how literature shapes thoughts and feelings.
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Bloomsbury Academic Colin Murphys Political Plays
Book SynopsisColin Murphy writes plays about politics, and journalism. He is the author of a series of plays on Irish political history: Haughey/Gregory, on the 1982 Gregory Deal, Inside the GPO, on the Easter Rising, Guaranteed!, on the bank guarantee of 2008, and Bailed Out!, on the subsequent crisis and Troika bailout of 2010, all produced by Fishamble. He adapted the latter two for screen, as The Guarantee and The Bailout (both produced by John Kelleher Media). He adapted the Charlie Bird book A Day in May for the stage. His verbatim dramas, Jack Duggan's War and Judging Shaw (based on Fintan O'Toole's book of the same name) have been staged by ANU Productions. His short film Leave to Remain was made for RTÉ Storyland (produced by Treasure Entertainment). He writes a weekly column for the Sunday Business Post.
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Left of Brain Books Aristotle
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Left of Brain Books The Georgics of Virgil
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Left of Brain Books Essay On The Golden Verses of Pythagoras
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Writing Self and Reflexivity
Book SynopsisCELIA HUNT is Lecturer in Continuing Education (Creative Writing) at the University of Sussex, UK. She is the author of Therapeutic Dimensions of Autobiography in Creative Writing (Jessica Kingsley, London, 2000). She was awarded a national teaching fellowship by the Higher Education Academy in 2004.FIONA SAMPSON is AHRB Research Fellow in the Creative and Performing Arts at Oxford Brookes University, UK. She is the author of four collections of poetry and several books on writing in health care. She is editor of Orient Express, a journal of contemporary writing from Enlargement Europe.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Writing Fiction Creative and Critical Approaches Approaches to Writing
Book SynopsisAMANDA BOULTER is Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at the University of Winchester, UK. She is the author of Around the Houses and Back Around the Houses both published by Serpent's Tail.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Writing Childrens Fiction
Book SynopsisYvonne Coppard's many novels for children include Bully and Not Dressed Like That, You Don't! She also writes non-fiction for children and adults. A former teacher, Yvonne was for some years a Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow and has extensive experience in teaching creative writing in educational and community settings.Linda Newbery, winner of the Costa Children's Book Prize for her young adult novel Set in Stone, writes for young readers of all ages. Her more than forty titles include The Shell House, Lob, Nevermore, Catcall and The Sandfather. She has wide experience of tutoring writing workshops for children, teenagers and adults.Trade Review...filled to the brim with so many new insights and hidden ancient wisdom about writing that I myself will be reaching for its guidance and its pleasures. * David Fickling *The trouble with a book like Writing Children’s Fiction: A Writers’ and Artists’ Companion, is that it makes someone like me believe that they can write a children’s book. It is that good, and it is above all, that inspiring... Linda Newbery and Yvonne Coppard provide loads of good advice for the budding author, based on how they themselves go about writing...Along with their own tried and tested methods, they have invited the cream of British children’s authors to share their thoughts on what to do. Or not to do... There are so many tips, not to mention inspirational tales in Writing Children’s Fiction... Anne Fine, who has written the foreword, wishes she had had access to this kind of guide when she began, instead of doing it the hard way. * Bookwitch *Coppard and Newbery give us a lively, informed, encouraging and timely ‘companion’ that combines the practical and the inspirational. -- Jan Lee * The Oxford Times *
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Writing A User Manual
Book SynopsisYou are a writer and you have a killer book idea. When your project starts to take off you will find yourself managing a writhing tangle of ideas, possibilities and potential potholes. How do you turn your inspiration into a finished novel? Writing a User''s Manual offers practical insight into the processes that go into writing a novel, from planning to story development, research to revision and, finally, delivery in a form which will catch the eye of an agent or publisher.David Hewson, a highly productive and successful writer of popular fiction with more than sixteen novels in print in twenty or so languages, shows how to manage the day to day process of writing.Writers will learn how to get the best out of software and novel writing packages such as Scrivener, which help you view your novel not as one piece of text, but as individual linked scenes, each with their own statistics, notes and place within the novel structure. As you write, you will need to assemble the main buTrade ReviewDavid Hewson's books have been read by millions...So his views on writing a successful novel are well worth listening to...There's a surfeit of ideas and advice, ranging from how to get started through keeping the project alive to delivering the finished manuscript that you must read. * Self-Publishing Magazine *
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Wildside Press The Art and Craft of Poetry Twenty Exercises Toward Mastery Twenty Exercises Toward Mastery Second Edition Borgo Literary Guides
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Wildside Press Supernatural Horror in Literature Other Literary Essays
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Wildside Press Story Writing
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F&W Publications Inc Your First Novel Revised and Expanded
Book SynopsisYour Expert Guide to Writing and Publishing a NovelIn this revised and expanded edition of Your First Novel, novelist Laura Whitcomb, seasoned literary agent Ann Rittenberg, and her knowledgeable assistant, Camille Goldin, team up to provide you with the essential skills needed to craft the best novel you can--and the savvy business know-how to get it published. Complete with updated references, analysis of new best-selling novels, and the same detailed instruction, Whitcomb will show you how to: • Practice the craft of writing, using both your right- and left-brain • Develop a flexible card system for organizing and outlining plot • Create dynamic characters that readers love--and love to hate • Study classic novels and story structure to adapt with your ideasFeaturing two new chapters on choosing your path as an author and understan
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Analyze Anything A Guide to Critical Reading and Writing
Book SynopsisGregory Fraser is Associate Professor of English at the University of West Georgia, USA.Chad Davidson is Associate Professor of English at the University of West Georgia, USA.Trade ReviewThis is an excellent tool for knowledge-making inside and outside the classroom. -- Rich Rice, Texas Tech Univeristy, USA‘An excellent book about how to develop critical judgement, and a very lively exploration of human understanding. Analyze Anything does what it claims, and it does it with style.‘ -- Dr Graeme Harper, Professor of Creative Writing and Director of the Honors College, Oakland University, USACritical thinking skills are at the core of the Humanities and here is one of the few books that explains how to analyse systematically. This is a 'how to' book for literature students but also for anyone interested in how to critique the world around them.It looks at symbols, layers, approaches, and techniques, but what's more it explains why they're important. Like all the best study guides this is a clear, accessible, and readable textbook that will greatly help students improve the ways they think and write. -- Peter Childs, Dean of Research and Professor of Modern English Literature, University of Gloucestershire, UKTable of Contents1. The Analysis of Signs; 2. The Characteristics of Theory and Analysis; 3. Choosing a Sign to Analyze; 4. Questioning the Meanings of the Sign; 5. Responding Analytically; 6. The Five-Theories Model of Analysis; 7. Polishing and Presenting the Analysis; 8. Beyond the Five-Theories Model of Analysis; Bibliography; Index.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Experimental Fiction
Book SynopsisJulie Armstrong is Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, where she teaches Creative Writing in an interdisciplinary Contemporary Arts Dept. In addition to her scholarly publishing, she has also written, poetry, television scripts and two works of experimental fiction: Mirror (2010) Troubador and Dream Space (2012).Table of ContentsIntroduction: What is Experimental Fiction? 1. Modernism i. When was/what was modernism? ii. What was being explored in modernist fiction? iii. Who was writing modernist fiction? iv. What were the techniques and forms of modernist writing? Writing Exercises Further Reading 2. The Beats i. When were/what were the Beats ii. What was being explored in Beat literature? iii. Who was writing Beat literature? iv. What were the techniques and forms of Beat writing? Writing Exercises Further Reading 3. Moving Into Postmodernism i. What is/was postmodernism? ii. What is/was being explored in postmodern fiction? iii. Who is/was writing postmodern fiction? iv. What are/were the techniques and forms of postmodern fiction? Writing Exercises Further Reading 4. A New Era for Fiction i. What is being explored in experimental fiction of the new era? ii. Who is writing experimental fiction today? iii. What are the techniques and forms of contemporary experimental fiction? Writing Exercises Further Reading Conclusion Index
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John Murray Press Get Your Articles Published
Book SynopsisYOUR COMPLETE GUIDE TO A CAREER IN WRITING FOR NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES. An informative and interactive guide to writing for all kinds of magazine, from golf to gossip, with plenty of practice exercises and helpful tips for getting started and getting published.Trade Review"Packed with information and good advice. Very accessible." * - Richard Keeble, Professor in Journalism, University of Lincoln *Table of Contents : 1. Life as a magazine writer : 2. Where do ideas come from? : 3. Gettings words on paper : 4. Revising and reworking : 5. Research : 6. Interviews : 7. Analysing magazines : 8. Submitting on spec : 9. House style : 10. Deadlines and discipline : 11. Selling yourself : 12. Networking : 13. Money matters : 14. Writing and the law
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John Murray Press NLP For Writers
Book SynopsisNLP for Writers is the only creative writing book that uses NLP techniques to help writers improve the stories they create. This unique guide employs case studies and exercises to explore how NLP concepts can be used to develop better mastery of character, plot and story and to create writing that engages audiences more stronglyTable of Contents : NLP and the Writer : NLP and the Writer : NLP and the Writer : Creating a Strong Connection with Every Reader : Creating a Strong Connection with Every Reader : Creating a Strong Connection with Every Reader : Using submodalities to influence the reader's perceptions : Using submodalities to influence the reader's perceptions : Using submodalities to influence the reader's perceptions : Powerful Plotting : Powerful Plotting : Powerful Plotting : Using beliefs, values and perceptual filters to create stronger emotional storylines : Using beliefs, values and perceptual filters to create stronger emotional storylines : Using beliefs, values and perceptual filters to create stronger emotional storylines
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Lulu.com Granelli di Sabbia
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Atria Books The True Secret of Writing
Book SynopsisThe beloved teacher and author of the million-and-a-half copy bestseller Writing Down the Bones reveals a new method of writing in “a priceless distillation of her accumulated wisdom and experience as a writer, coach, and instructor on mindfulness” (Abraham Verghese).Sit. Walk. Write. These are the barest bones of Natalie Goldberg’s revolutionary writing and life practice, presented here in book form for the first time. The True Secret of Writing provides a whole new method of writing that Goldberg developed since the publication of her classic, Writing Down the Bones. The capstone to forty years of teaching, The True Secret of Writing is Goldberg’s Zen boot camp. Stories of her own search for truth and clarity as well as her students’ breakthroughs and insights give moving testament to how brilliantly her unique, tough-love method works. As Goldberg says, “To write is to be empowered...
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Ebookit.com The Pens Renaissance
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AuthorHouse A New Day And More Tales
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - KDP Print US Writing Fiction in High School Teachers Guide
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform How to Fix Your Novel
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Playwriting
Book SynopsisFraser Grace is a playwright and former actor and performance poet. His first play, Perpetua, was joint winner of the Verity Bargate Award and was produced by Soho Theatre/Birmingham REP. Since then he has written for theatres all over the UK, including Breakfast with Mugabe for the Royal Shakespeare Company, whose production won the John Whiting Award in 2006 and a Silver Sony Award when broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and the World Service. The play has since been revived in the UK, and has enjoyed extended runs in the USA, both off-Broadway and in California, in 2014. Since 2011 Fraser has convened the Master's Playwriting Course at the University of Birmingham, UK. Clare Bayley is an award-winning playwright. Her plays include Blue Sky, The Container, which won a Fringe First and the Amnesty International Award (Udderbelly, Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2007) and has been produced at the Young Vic, London (2009) and in Cardiff, Baltimore US, Toronto Canada and Melbourne Australia. For radio she has written In The Van, a 15 Minute Drama for BBC Radio 4 (2012), Portobello Beach for BBC Radio Scotland (2012), and for BBC Radio 4: The Secret Place, The Bringer of Sweets and Northern Lights. She is a former theatre editor of The Independent and currently teaches creative writing at London South Bank University, UK.Trade ReviewA readable and mostly comprehensive introduction to writing for the stage for new playwrights … For true beginners this book would be an extremely helpful companion on their journey … It will likely be useful to the lone emerging playwright or in conjunction with an introduction to playwriting course. Grace and Bayley update some of the older playwriting texts and earnestly steer away from being overly prescriptive. For these reasons Playwriting is a useful addition to the bookshelf. * Theatre Topics *[In] this comprehensive guide to writing for the stage by award-winning playwrights Fraser Grace and Clare Bayley ... there are illuminating tips from 20 established writers – Frank McGuinness, Tom Stoppard and April De Angelis among them. * Youth Drama Ireland *Table of ContentsForeword Introduction: Scriptwriter, Dramatist, Author, Hack Part I: Playwriting - The View from Above Reflections 1 Reflections 2 A Brief History of the Theatre Part II: Tips and Tales - Guest Contributors Part III: Write On - The View from the Ground Writing The Industry The Production/Rehearsal Process Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Environmental and Nature Writing
Book SynopsisSean Prentiss is Associate Professor of English at Norwich University, USA. He is author of Finding Abbey: The Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave (2015), which won the National Outdoor Book Award for Biography/History. He is also co-editor of The Far Edges of the Fourth Genre (2014). Joe Wilkins is Associate Professor of English at Linfield College, USA. His memoir, The Mountain and the Fathers: Growing Up on the Big Dry (2013) won the GLCA New Writers Award for non-fiction and his work has appeared in Georgia Review, Harvard Review and Slate among many other periodicals.Trade ReviewThis book presents an introductory history of nature writing—covering subcategories ranging from pastoral and adventure writing to postcolonial and climate change narratives—and serves as a comprehensive guide to the elements of its craft in essays, stories, and poems. Both veterans and newcomers to environmental and nature writing will find inspiration in the exercises and anthology sections, which include work by Camille T. Dungy, Juan Felipe Herrera, Benjamin Percy, and many others. * Poets & Writers *The planet is in a real crisis - and one good effect is that it seems to be producing ever more wonderful writers about nature and the environment, almost as a human produces antibodies to ward off disease. Here you will find introductions to many of them--and an invitation to join their ranks. * Bill McKibben, editor of American Earth: Nature Writing Since Thoreau *Sean Prentiss and Joe Wilkins’ new craft text and anthology, Nature and Environmental Writing, is a writing manual full of provocative prompts and a respectful and informative literary history of the genre we have previously kept in a small box marked “nature writing.” It also includes a discerning multi-genre reader. The book challenges writers to factor into their writing the imprint of place and landscape on the human story. Whether writers adopt this textbook for a classroom setting or embark upon its lessons and inspirations in a self-study, they will surely come away with new and wild ideas about the subtle influences that science, the natural world, and the environmental imagination exert on all of our experiences, memories, and stories. * Debra Marquart, Professor of English at Iowa State University and author of The Horizontal World *This is lucid, interesting and highly readable. * Hywel Dix, Bournemouth University, UK *The sense of historical development coupled with the sensitivity to the changing social and cultural landscapes makes this book useful to a number of audiences and promises to invite even more nature writers to join those already on the trail … Part II focuses on various writerly concerns such as tone, symbol, point of view, character (both people and place), persona, research, revision, and the like. Prentiss and Wilkins deal with these issues by creating chapters that offer related readings from the anthology, a free-write prompt, an illustrating vignette, a discussion of the issue at hand, and exercises. These are standard writing issues for nature writers, and I find Prentiss and Wilkins’s treatment of them straightforward and refreshing … Environmental and Nature Writing: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology includes nonfiction, fiction, and poetry and provides a great range of writing from multiple perspectives covering multiple genres. I find the collection useful, as models for writers and as challenges to how we define nature and environmental writing. Prentiss and Wilkins have given us a useful trail to follow … I will use Prentiss and Wilkins’s book the next time I teach nature writing. * ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment *Table of ContentsSection 1: An Introduction to Nature and Environmental Writing Chapter 1: The Trailhead Chapter 2: A Short History of Nature and Environmental Writing Section 2: The Craft of Nature and Environmental Writing Chapter 3: Seeing the World, Believing the World Chapter 4: Living Maps Chapter 5: The Writer in Place Chapter 6: People and Place Chapter 7: The River Above, the River Below Chapter 8: The Art of Activism Chapter 9: A World Larger than Ourselves Chapter 10: The Nature and Environmental Essay, Story, and Poem Chapter 11: One More Time to the River: Writing is Rewriting Chapter 12: A Trail Guide Section 3: Nature and Environmental Writing Anthology Creative Nonfiction Geologies: An Investigation Chelsea Biondolillo Pack Rat John Daniel Tales From a Black Girl on Fire, or Why I Hate to Walk Outside and See Things Burning Camille T. 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