Creative Writing

• 

  Crafting Poems: A Guide to Creative Writing

  Crafting Poems demystifies the genre through diverse examples, clear instruction, and emphases on practice, enjoyment, and developing a distinct voice. By connecting reading with writing…

• 

  Crafting Stories: A Guide to Creative Writing

  Portable, accessible, affordable, and packed with engaging examples, Crafting Stories is a friendly introduction to writing short fiction. It encourages students to read fiction actively,…

• 

  Crafting Poems and Stories

  Crafting Poems and Stories is an inspiring new guide to creative writing. Comprehensive in its treatment of poetry and fiction, this book offers the features…

• 

  Your First Page: First Pages and What They Tell Us about the Pages that Follow Them

  Your First Page is unlike any other craft book on writing. It is based on the premise that practically everything that can go right or…

• 

  Writing and Workshopping Poetry: A Constructive Introduction

  Most texts on creative writing emphasize either sources of inspiration or strategies for editing. The process of getting from initial inspiration to final draft isn’t…

• 

  Write Moves: A Creative Writing Guide and Anthology

  Write Moves is an invitation for the student to understand and experience creative writing in the larger frame of humanities education. The practical instruction offered…

• 

  Understanding the Essay

  This is a book on how to read the essay, one that demonstrates how reading is inextricably tied to the art of writing. It aims…

• 

  Visions and Revisions

  This anthology takes a unique approach to the process of poetry. Each poem included in the book is followed by at least one earlier draft…

• 

  Burning Brightly

  Burning Brightly is the first full-length book treatment of professional storytelling in North America today. For some years there has been a major storytelling revival…