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University of Akron Press Poetry Studio
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Sasquatch Books Welcome to the Writer's Life: How to Design Your
Book SynopsisLearn how to take your work to the next level with this informative guide on the craft, business, and lifestyle of writing With warmth and humor, Paulette Perhach welcomes you into the writer’s life as someone who has once been on the outside looking in. Like a freshman orientation for writers, this book includes an in-depth exploration of all the elements of being a writer—from your writing practice to your reading practice, from your writing craft to the all-important and often-overlooked business of writing. In Welcome to the Writer’s Life, you will learn how to tap into the powers of crowdsourcing and social media to grow your writing career. Perhach also unpacks the latest research on success, gamification, and lifestyle design, demonstrating how you can use these findings to further improve your writing projects. Complete with exercises, tools, checklists, infographics, and behind-the-scenes tips from working writers of all types, this book offers everything you need to jump-start a successful writing life.Trade Review“Paulette Perhach is a teacher you can trust. She knows the creative writing process from hard work and constant practice, and everything she says about it rings true. Funny and wise, filled with examples of the joys and sweet agonies of the creative process, Welcome to the Writer's Life is a book both veterans and beginners will enjoy.”—Charles Johnson, author of The Way of the Writer and Middle Passage "Welcome to the Writer's Life is an indispensable guide to the literary life. Paulette Perhach offers a wealth of ideas and resources here in a warm and welcoming voice. It's like your best friend is a writer and she's giving you all the inside scoop."—Theo Pauline Nestor, author of Writing Is My Drink “Writers looking for encouragement, specifics, and some memorable advice would do well to pick up this good-humored and highly useful guide…This funny, readable, and idea-crammed book is a powerful tool for writers, no matter where they are in their journeys.”—Publisher's Weekly "The book’s interactive approach and dynamic format coupled with Perhach’s warm, encouraging tone make this a multi-faceted guide that’s a delight to read."—The Writer magazine“A panoramic view of what you need to know most and what you need to know first...Paulette Perhach’s introductory guide is a comprehensive volume containing hard-earned wisdom and organizational ideas, covering everything from writing and reading habits, to craft and editing. Full of helpful writing exercises and prompts, lists of prizes and literary journals, strategies for social media and financial budgeting, and inspirational anecdotes from poets and prose writers offering insightful advice gleaned from their personal experiences."—Poets & Writers"This compendious exploration-and tactical workbook-of the writer's path, replete with tried-and-true exercises and behind-the-scenes tips, provides a tremendous asset for aspirants or anyone simply curious about writers, their work, and the challenge of keeping body and spirit together."—Library Journal"The book is a great practical guide to the craft and business of writing for aspiring authors, and it also serves as a wonderful cross-section of the Seattle writing community."—The Seattle Review of Books
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Sasquatch Books Write it!: 100 Poetry Prompts to Inspire
Book Synopsis"Write It! might be one of the friendliest poetry tool kits/notebooks ever."--Naomi Shihab Nye, Young People's Poet Laureate,Discover your creative voice and learn to write poetry in this easy-to-use guided journal with 100 poetry prompts--a 2021 Young People's Poet Laureate Pick! Thoughtful, stimulating, and fun prompts developed from workshops by award-winning poets will help you craft writing that authentically expresses your inner life. Compose on these beautifully designed pages, and create a body of work that you can enjoy privately or share using decorative display pages perfect for social media.This lovely guided journal can be both a canvas for exploration and a treasured keepsake showcasing your creative voice. Includes decorative pages and a ribbon with beautiful cloth hardbound cover.Trade Review“Write It! might be one of the friendliest poetry tool kits/notebooks ever. As the title suggests, the book is very direct. How do people write about feelings too difficult to face directly? Is listening to trees possible? Is that rain talking to me? How many names does any person really have? The editors—Jessica Jacobs and Nickole Brown, both fine poets themselves—make us feel lucky to sit at their table. Readers will learn about writers and quotations, multiple perspectives, possibilities, and tactics while feeling deeply befriended all the way. Who knows where you might go? I plan to write on every page.”—Naomi Shihab Nye, Poetry Foundation's Young People’s Poet Laureate“Write It! is an absolute pleasure, a gentle, encouraging guide for discovering the stories around and within us. Jacobs and Brown serve as fairy godpoets, bringing us the words and wisdom of beloved writers along with prompts to inspire and embolden. This book asks us to be curious and open, to find ourselves in the mirror and on the page. It shows us how to eavesdrop on the world and our own hearts.”—Janet McNally, The Looking Glass“These soul-searching prompts inspire conversations with oneself, our world, and poets who have come before us. As a teacher and author, I’m equally excited about sharing this book with my students and diving in myself!”—Nicole Kronzer, Unscripted“Jessica Jacobs and Nickole Brown are two poets of presence, passion, and purpose. I am constantly learning from their brilliant poems and how they both inhabit the natural world around with them with immense light and graceful precision. This book of beautiful writing prompts is a safe space to explore the depths of your imagination, overflowing with favorite lines from beloved writers and soul-stirring questions. Write It! will help you deepen your writing practice as well as your relationship to identity, place, and community. Sometimes there is nothing more terrifying than a blank page or blinking cursor. Sometimes you need the right nudge and spark, these one hundred prompts are lit matches waiting for you”—Tiana Clark, I Can’t Talk About The Trees Without The Blood
£19.43
Shadow Mountain Write Fearless. Edit Smart. Get Published.
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£17.84
Graywolf Press,U.S. The Art of Revision: The Last Word
Book SynopsisThe fifteenth volume in the Art of series takes an expansive view of revision-on the page and in life In The Art of Revision: The Last Word, Peter Ho Davies takes up an often discussed yet frequently misunderstood subject. He begins by addressing the invisibility of revision-even though it's an essential part of the writing process, readers typically only see a final draft, leaving the practice shrouded in mystery. To combat this, Davies pulls examples from his novels The Welsh Girl and The Fortunes, as well as from the work of other writers, including Flannery O'Connor, Carmen Machado, and Raymond Carver, shedding light on this slippery subject. Davies also looks beyond literature to work that has been adapted or rewritten, such as books made into films, stories rewritten by another author, and the practice of retconning in comics and film. In an affecting frame story, Davies recounts the story of a violent encounter in his youth, which he then retells over the years, culminating in a final telling at the funeral of his father. In this way, the book arrives at an exhilarating mode of thinking about revision-that it is the writer who must change, as well as the writing. The result is a book that is as useful as it is moving, one that asks writers to reflect upon themselves and their writing.
£10.99
Evan-Moor Educational Publishers Spelling Games and Activities, Grade 1 Teacher Resource
Book SynopsisSpelling practice that is fun and effective! This resource gives students spelling and word study practice using words from across the curriculum and the real world.
£19.99
Evan-Moor Educational Publishers Spelling Games and Activities, Grade 2 Teacher Resource
Book SynopsisSpelling practice that is fun and effective! This resource gives students spelling and word study practice using words from across the curriculum and the real world.
£19.99
Evan-Moor Educational Publishers Spelling Games and Activities, Grade 3 Teacher Resource
Book SynopsisSpelling practice that is fun and effective! This resource gives students spelling and word study practice using words from across the curriculum and the real world.
£19.99
Evan-Moor Educational Publishers Spelling Games and Activities, Grade 4 Teacher
Book SynopsisSpelling practice that is fun and effective! This resource gives students spelling and word study practice using words from across the curriculum and the real world.
£19.99
Evan-Moor Educational Publishers Spelling Games and Activities, Grade 5 Teacher Resource
Book SynopsisSpelling practice that is fun and effective! This resource gives students spelling and word study practice using words from across the curriculum and the real world.
£19.99
Evan-Moor Educational Publishers Spelling Games and Activities, Grade 6 Teacher Resource
Book SynopsisSpelling practice that is fun and effective! This resource gives students spelling and word study practice using words from across the curriculum and the real world.
£19.99
Evan-Moor Educational Publishers Reading Comprehension: Nonfiction, Grade 1
Book SynopsisBuild strong literacy foundations with leveled nonfiction minibooks and comprehension activities! Engage first-grade students in high-quality reading comprehension lessons that include picture dictionaries with words to know, plus comprehension, vocabulary, and scaffolded writing activities.
£19.19
Evan-Moor Educational Publishers Reading Comprehension: Nonfiction, Grade 2
Book SynopsisBuild strong reading comprehension skills with leveled nonfiction texts and comprehension activities! Engage second-grade students in high-quality reading comprehension lessons that include texts with a variety of text structures, picture dictionaries, comprehension activities, writing prompt activities, and more.
£19.19
Evan-Moor Educational Publishers Reading Comprehension: Nonfiction, Grade 3
Book SynopsisBuild strong reading comprehension skills with leveled nonfiction texts and comprehension activities! Engage third-grade students in high-quality reading comprehension lessons that include texts with a variety of text structures, dictionaries, comprehension activities, writing prompt activities, and more.
£19.19
Evan-Moor Educational Publishers Reading Comprehension: Nonfiction, Grade 5
Book SynopsisBuild strong reading comprehension skills with leveled nonfiction texts and comprehension activities! Engage fifth-grade students in high-quality reading comprehension lessons that include texts with a variety of text structures, dictionaries, comprehension activities, writing prompt activities, and more.
£19.19
Evan-Moor Educational Publishers Reading Comprehension: Nonfiction, Grade 6 Teacher Resource
Book SynopsisBuild strong reading comprehension skills with leveled nonfiction texts and comprehension activities! Engage sixth-grade students in high-quality reading comprehension lessons that include texts with a variety of text structures, dictionaries, comprehension activities, writing prompt activities, and more.
£19.19
Evan-Moor Educational Publishers Reading Comprehension: Paired Text, Grade 1
Book SynopsisReading comprehension practice gives first-grade students strong foundations. It includes 7 paired text units with leveled minibooks about science and social studies topics. Each unit has a big question, a teacherâs complex text, a picture dictionary, and illustrated reading and writing activities. Each unit also includes assessment activities.
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Evan-Moor Educational Publishers Reading Comprehension: Paired Text, Grade 5
Book SynopsisReading comprehension practice boosts fifth-grade studentsâ competencies across the curriculum. Includes 8 paired text units with science, social studies, and civics topics. Each unit has an essential question and vocabulary, reading, and writing activities that help students examine texts and engage in discussions. Also includes unit assessments.
£19.99
Evan-Moor Educational Publishers Reading Comprehension: Paired Text, Grade 6 Teacher Resource
Book SynopsisReading comprehension practice boosts sixth-grade studentsâ competencies across the curriculum. Includes 8 paired text units with science, social studies, and civics topics. Each unit has an essential question and vocabulary, reading, and writing activities that help students examine texts and engage in discussions. Also includes unit assessments.
£19.99
Evan-Moor Educational Publishers Reading Comprehension: Fiction, Grade 1 Teacher
Book SynopsisBuild strong reading comprehension skills with leveled fiction stories and comprehension activities!
£19.19
Evan-Moor Educational Publishers Reading Comprehension: Fiction, Grade 2 Teacher Resource
Book SynopsisBuild strong reading comprehension skills with leveled fiction stories and comprehension activities!
£19.19
Evan-Moor Educational Publishers Reading Comprehension: Fiction, Grade 4 Teacher
Book SynopsisBuild strong reading comprehension skills with leveled fiction stories and comprehension activities!
£19.19
Evan-Moor Educational Publishers Reading Comprehension: Fiction, Grade 6 Teacher Resource
Book SynopsisBuild strong reading comprehension skills with leveled fiction stories and comprehension activities!
£19.19
Dayspring Publishing Kind Words Are Like Honey Sweet To The Soul Journal
£15.47
Sourcebooks, Inc 52 Diverse Titles Every Book Lover Should Read: A
Book SynopsisThe American Library Association presents a book by a must-read BIPOC author for every week of the year in this beautiful reading log.Calling all book lovers! Expand your reading list with a one-year reading challenge from the American Library Association (ALA). Including the ALA's insights into each title and prompts for further reflection, this journal is a must-have for all bibliophiles and library regulars.Includes:52 book recommendations to keep you reading BIPOC authors all yearRoom to reflect on each book as you complete the challengePages for your personal reading log, perfect for sharing on social media
£13.59
Sourcebooks, Inc 52 Award-Winning Titles Every Book Lover Should
Book SynopsisThe American Library Association presents an award-winning must-read book for every week of the year in this beautiful reading log.Calling all book lovers! Expand your reading list with a one-year reading challenge from the American Library Association (ALA). Including the ALA's insights into each title, notes on the awards they've won, and prompts for further reflection, this journal is a must-have for all bibliophiles and library regulars.Includes:52 Award-Winning book recommendations to keep you reading all yearRoom to reflect on each book as you complete the challengePages for your personal reading log, perfect for sharing on social media
£13.66
Allen & Unwin Umm ...: A complete guide to public speaking: A
Book SynopsisPublic speakers are not born. They are made. Someone who is a bad public speaker can become a good public speaker. And a good public speaker can create as much pleasure as a bad one can create pain. They can inspire, they can move, they can cause the listener to laugh, cry and give money. Sometimes they can even change a listener's life.'Public speaking did not come naturally to comedian and TV/radio presenter, James O'Loghlin. But it's something he's mastered over the years. Here he tells you how to do it, whether it's for business presentation, a wedding, a school speech or even a job interview.With practical and friendly tips for every sort of gathering, James takes you through each of the stages of giving a speech and shows you how to keep your audience sitting up and eager for more. From researching your topic to adding humour and interest, from using your voice effectively to conquering your nerves, James's step by step approach will see even the most inexperienced speaker improve their skills enormously.Umm is the perfect reference for all sorts of public speakers. It will give confidence to those who have never delivered a speech before and will allow those who have done it many times to hone and finesse their skills.Table of ContentsPart 1: Before you beginPart 2: Writing a speechPart 3: Before you speakPart 4: SpeakingPart 5: ProblemsPart 6: Different types of speaking
£17.59
Baraka Books Exhilarating Prose: Cognitions, Contemplations,
Book SynopsisThis smartly illustrated literary miscellanea is intended to stimulate readers and writers of English prose. From "dead language – the speaks" (i.e., ad-speak, media-speak, corporate-speak) through "re-writing – Again?" to rules (to obey or not to obey), authors Barry Healey and Cordelia Strube examine what makes good and bad writing. With tongue often in cheek, they scrutinize various forms of prose and the seven major prose elements, and reflect on how to approach the writing process most effectively. Exhilarating Prose also abounds with examples of startling writing, wide-ranging quotes from celebrated authors, and their own ruminations on the oddities of writing and the infinite eccentricity of the human mind. To those interested in English words "in their best order" (Coleridge), this book will inform, engage, and amuse.
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Intellect Books An Affect of an Experience: and how I learnt to
Book SynopsisDespite the contemporary trend of focusing on personal experience in art and writing, there is very little critical analysis of the concept of experience within fine art. The overarching conceptual aim of this book is to examine the concept of experience, as both content and as interpretative register in the context of fine art. It explores the reasons why experience, when compared to other modes of consciousness – such as understanding, knowing, perceiving or recognizing – is more aligned with the notion of actuality and thus more likely to be viewed as authentic. It then discusses the idea of writing about experience as a practice in fine art – the idea that writing can be understood as a practice like painting, sculpture, video, etc.– and explores a viable methodology for the art-writing practice. The book seeks to provide a more fluid interpretation of experience. In so doing, it explores the following questions: Why does the reading of experience as self-presence predominate? What is the status and value of experience as evidence? How is experience written and seen? In exploring these questions, Kate Love creates a workable strategy for writing about experience.Trade ReviewReading this remarkable book is at once wrenching and exhilarating, immersing us as it does in the tortured process of its composition and offering vicarious access to Kate Love’s courageous struggle to square circles that resist being disciplined into new shapes. Drawing on her professional career as an art historian and her personal battle with a life-threatening illness, it is a bold experiment in crossing the writing of experience with the experience of writing. Martin Jay, University of California, Berkeley, USA -- Martin Jay'As a reader I was informed and absorbed in equal measure. This book is a refreshing text to read as it opens up the multiple possibilities for writing in art and design academic settings, especially for academics who are pursuing practice-based, practice-led and practice-involved research.' Mark Ingham, London College of Communication -- Mark InghamTable of Contents1 Introduction to the Materiality of Writing as a Practice 2 Introduction to the Concept of Experience 3 Problems with Experience as Self-Presence 4 An Examination of the Idea of the Subject as the Source of Experience 5 Writing to Meet the Affect of the Antagonism as Experienced in the Hospital off the City Road 6 Hovering Words: Part 1 Speaking Experience 7 Hovering Words: Part 2 Writing Experience 8 Experience and Representation 9 Experience as a Relation that is In and At the Limits of Language 10 To Test the Above: To Look at the Separation of Experience and Language 11 Beginnings of a More Adequate Interpretation of Experience: Separation of Experience and Language (Under Erasure) 12 To Get to Some Sort of Ending: Actually More Precisely the Gradual Realisation that there is No Real Beginning, Middle or End to this Research Bibliography
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Chronicle Books What's Behind the Blue Door?: 75 Creative Prompts
Book SynopsisFrom the celebrated non-profit WriteGirl (where Amanda Gorman got her start) comes What's Behind the Blue Door, a creative writing journal designed to be your go-to guide for tapping into creativity and self-expression. What's Behind the Blue Door? features 75 galvanizing prompts, from memoir-esque questions to speculative fiction starters to poetry exercises, as well as 50 encouraging tips to bring your writing to the next level. Beautifully packaged with a handy ribbon marker and rounded edges with lay-flat binding for easy writing, and complete with full-color illustrations throughout, this guided journal will be a treasured companion for any writer, both beginner and seasoned pro alike.
£16.52
Peace Hill Press The Creative Writer, Level Three: Building Your Craft
Book Synopsis• Complements Peace Hill Press’s expository series Writing With Skill by providing the imaginative element that many students want. • Unlike most “how to write” books, these are designed to be used in a mentor/student relationship, with teaching, guidance, and evaluation tips provided for the mentor or teacher. • All exercises build towards the production of finished creative pieces • Sequential, logical, step-by-step instruction • The third level builds on the introductory volume, The Creative Writer: Five Finger Exercises, but can be started directly by older students. • Instruction in the five essentials of fiction: plot, characters, dialogue, point of view, and setting. Level Three leads students into the construction of more complex plots, evocative settings, and three-dimensional characters • Guidance in the essential art of poetry: sound, rhythm, word choice, and poem construction. Level Three draws students into even more sophisticated use of words and themes.
£15.95
Peace Hill Press The Creative Writer, Level Four: Becoming A
Book SynopsisBuilding on the skills taught in the first three levels, The Creative Writer, Level Four: Becoming a Writer guides young writers from idea to polished short story or poem in a single volume. Becoming a Writer also walks students through the transition from study to practice, broadening the series' focus by discussing the writing life -- how to find and submit to literary journals, how to develop discipline, and how to persevere in the face of rejection. Reviews and strengthens the writer’s grasp on the five essentials of fiction: plot, character, dialogue, point of view, and setting. Guides the writer into the effective, sophisticated use of the essentials of poetry: sound, rhythm, word choice, and structure. All exercises build toward the production of mature, finished creative piece Can be used as a complement to Writing With Skill or on its own.
£15.65
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Parkhurst Brothers Publishers Inc The New Book of Plots: Constructing Engaging
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Parkhurst Brothers Publishers Inc Affrilachian Tales: Folktales from the
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£999.99
Parkhurst Brothers Publishers Inc Old China Through the Eyes of a Storyteller
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£999.99
Well-Trained Mind Press Writing with Ease Strong Fundamentals
£22.52
Woodhall Press Seven Drafts
Book Synopsis'Brilliant, time-tested and clear' advice that will help writers at all stages, in all genres, write their very best book—and then make it better. As a freelance editor for more than a decade, Williams has shepherded books from rough draft to polished manuscripts bought by Big Five houses, university and literary presses, and for independent publishers. Now, she distills everything she's learned from editing hundreds of drafts, coaching writers past creative blocks, and navigating authors through querying and publication, into this useful guide for every step from idea to book. Seven Drafts: Self-Edit Like a Pro from Blank Page to Book divides writing and revision into distinct stages, with a new focus in each draft. Williams' frank, funny voice encourages writers to tackle even big editing tasks with a sense of humor and a feeling that someone who understands is on their side. With plenty of fresh examples, insider wisdom, and snappy footnotes, Seven Drafts teaches story, cha
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Wooden Books Poetic Meter and Form
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Wooden Books Plot: The Art of Story
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Wooden Books Narrative
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Myers Education Press Writing in Online Courses: How the Online
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£121.60
Myers Education Press Writing in Online Courses: How the Online
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£38.00
Dietrich Reimer Gut Schreiben Uber Neue Kunst
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£28.18
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Alles, was in mir steckt: Kreatives Schreiben im
Book SynopsisCreative writing is more than just a hobby. It has the potential to help people to expand their self-efficacy and their self-esteem. It also serves as a nearly endless source of energy. Not only do individuals profit from this activity, it can also be implemented in the course of systemic therapy, counselling as well as in personal and business development. Renate HauÃ
£33.58
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Las letras son dibujos / Letters Are Drawings
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Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Vivir el camino del artista Living the Artists Way an Intuitive Path to Greater Creativity
£15.63
Sociedad General Espanola de Libreria Cuadernas de Redaccion: Saber Redactar 2 Narrar y
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£999.99
