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DIY MFA: Write with Focus, Read with Purpose, Build Your Community
- ASIN: B01HH2TGNA
- Manufacturer: Writer's Digest Books
Get the Knowledge Without the College! You are a writer. You dream of sharing your words with the world, and you're willing to put in the hard work to achieve success. You may have even considered earning your MFA, but for whatever reason--tuition costs, the time commitment, or other responsibilities--you've never been able to do it. Or maybe you'v... [Read More]
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The Modern Library Writer's Workshop: A Guide to the Craft of Fiction (Modern Library Paperbacks)
- ASIN: 0375755586
- ISBN: 0375755586
- Brand: Modern Library
- Manufacturer: Modern Library
“Make [your] characters want something right away—even if it’s only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.” —Kurt Vonnegut“‘The cat sat on the mat’ is not the beginning of a story, but ‘the cat sat on the dog’s mat’ is.” —John Le CarréNothi... [Read More]
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Clockwork Lives
- ASIN: B01M0MV7C3
- Manufacturer: WordFire Press
In Clockwork Angels, #1 bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson and legendary Rush drummer and lyricist Neil Peart created a fabulous, adventurous steampunk world in a novel to accompany the smash Rush concept album of the same name. It was a world of airships and alchemy, clockwork carnivals, pirates, lost cities, a rigid Watchmaker who controlled ev... [Read More]
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You Can't Make This Stuff Up: The Complete Guide to Writing Creative Nonfiction--from Memoir to Literary Journalism and Everything in Between
- ASIN: 0738215546
- ISBN: 0738215546
- Brand: Da Capo Lifelong Books
- Manufacturer: Da Capo Lifelong Books
From "the godfather behind creative nonfiction" (Vanity Fair) comes this indispensable how-to for nonfiction writers of all levels and genres, "reminiscent of Stephen King's fiction handbook On Writing" (Kirkus). Whether you're writing a rags-to-riches tell-all memoir or literary journalism, telling true stories well is hard work. In You Can't Make... [Read More]
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The Crafty Art of Playmaking
- ASIN: B00URTM4JY
- Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press
For the first time, Alan Ayckbourn shares all of his tricks of the playwright's trade. From helpful hints on writing to tips on directing, the book provides a complete primer for the newcomer and a refresher for the more experienced. Written in Ayckbourn's signature style that combines humor, seriousness, and heady air of theatrical sophistication ... [Read More]
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Dog Run Moon: Stories
- ASIN: B00X2FDZ5C
- Manufacturer: The Dial Press
In the tradition of Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, and Kent Haruf comes a dazzling debut story collection by a young writer from the American West who has been published in The New Yorker, Granta, and The Best American Short Stories.SHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE • 2017 PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD HONORABLE MENTION A construction worker on the run f... [Read More]
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15 Actors, 20 Years: Making Lives In and Out of the American Theatre
- ASIN: B01DZ5K9KC
- Manufacturer: Dutch Kills Press, LLC
What do Siggy the Viking, a celebrity chef and a Blue Man have in common? Believe it or not, theatre school.1995: Young arts journalist Todd London is blown away by the talent-packed graduating class of Harvard's ART. London writes about their first difficult year as professional actors in New York City.2015: London finds out what became of these e... [Read More]
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Kudos: A Novel (Outline Trilogy)
- ASIN: 0374279861
- ISBN: 0374279861
- Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Ordinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within
- ASIN: 0393334163
- ISBN: 0393334163
- Brand: Addonizio, Kim
- Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
In this fresh approach to writing poetry, the coauthor of the perennially popular The Poet's Companion offers sharp insights into the craft of writing. "The creative process is just that," maintains Kim Addonizio. "Not a means to an end, but an ongoing participation." A widely acclaimed poet and finalist for the National Book Award, Addonizio medit... [Read More]
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In the Palm of Your Hand, Second Edition: A Poet's Portable Workshop (Second Edition)
- ASIN: 0884485315
- ISBN: 9780884485315
- Brand: TILBURY HOUSE
- Manufacturer: Tilbury House Publishers
*Over 90,000 copies sold*Long an anchor text for college and junior college writing classes, this illuminating and invaluable guide has become a favorite for beginning poets and an ever-valuable reference for more advanced students who want to sharpen their craft, expand their technical skills, and engage their deepest memories and concerns.This ed... [Read More]
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The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
- ASIN: 0060757388
- ISBN: 0060757388
- Brand: Zindel, Paul
- Manufacturer: HarperTeen
The Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Paul Zindel, author of the beloved bestselling novel The Pigman, which Publishers Weekly called “remarkable…a story that will not be denied.” Fans of modern classics such as The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton and Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher will find much to love in Paul Zindel's books. The old, converted v... [Read More]
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Creative Writing Mfa Handbook: A Guide for Prospective Graduate Students (Revised & Updated)
- ASIN: 082642886X
- ISBN: 082642886X
- Manufacturer: Continuum
Revised and Updated! The Creative Writing MFA Handbook guides prospective graduate students through the difficult process of researching, applying to, and choosing graduate schools in creative writing. The handbook includes profiles of fifty creative writing programs, guidance through the application process, advice from current professors and stud... [Read More]
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How to Write a Damn Good Novel: A Step-by-Step No Nonsense Guide to Dramatic Storytelling
- ASIN: 0312010443
- ISBN: 0312010443
- Brand: St Martin s Press
- Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press
Written in a clear, crisp, accessible style, this book is perfect for beginners as well as professional writers who need a crash course in the down-to-earth basics of storytelling. Talent and inspiration can't be taught, but Frey does provide scores of helpful suggestions and sensible rules and principles.An international bestseller, How to Write a... [Read More]
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The Portable MFA in Creative Writing
- UPC: 035313109799
- ASIN: 1582973504
- ISBN: 1582973504
- Brand: Writer's Digest
- Manufacturer: Writer's Digest Books
Get the core knowledge of a prestigious MFA education without the tuition.Have you always wanted to get an MFA, but couldn't because of the cost, time commitment, or admission requirements?Well now you can fulfill that dream without having to devote tons of money or time. The Portable MFA gives you all of the essential information you would learn i... [Read More]
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We Wanted to Be Writers: Life, Love, and Literature at the Iowa Writers' Workshop
- ASIN: 160239735X
- ISBN: 9781602397354
- Brand: Brand: Skyhorse Publishing
- Manufacturer: Skyhorse
We Wanted to be Writers is a rollicking and insightful blend of original interviews, commentary, advice, gossip, anecdotes, analyses, history, and asides with nearly thirty graduates and teachers at the now legendary Iowa Writers' Workshop between 1974 and 1978. Among the talents that emerged in those years-writing, criticizing, drinking, and debat... [Read More]
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Clear and Simple As the Truth: Writing Classic Prose
- ASIN: 0691029172
- ISBN: 0691029172
- Brand: Brand: Princeton University Press
- Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
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The Playwright's Process: Learning the Craft from Today's Leading Dramatists
- ASIN: 0823088332
- ISBN: 0823088332
- Brand: Brand: Back Stage Books
- Manufacturer: Back Stage Books
Drawing on personal experience and interviews with playwrights, the author details the entire process of developing an idea into a fully realized play
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The Kite and the String: How to Write with Spontaneity and Control--and Live to Tell the Tale
- ASIN: 0525428542
- ISBN: 9780525428541
- Brand: imusti
- Manufacturer: Viking
A targeted and insightful guide to the stages of writing fiction and memoir without falling into common traps, while wisely navigating the writing life, from an award-winning author and longtime teacher“A book-length master class.” —The AtlanticWriting well does not result from following rules and instructions, but from a blend of spontaneit... [Read More]
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Virgin: Poems
- ASIN: 1571315004
- ISBN: 1571315004
- Manufacturer: Milkweed Editions
Selected by Ross Gay as winner of the inaugural Jake Adam York Prize, Analicia Sotelo’s debut collection of poems is a vivid portrait of the artist as a young woman. In Virgin, Sotelo walks the line between autobiography and mythmaking, offering up identities like dishes at a feast. These poems devour and complicate tropes of femininity―of naiv... [Read More]
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Wife
- ASIN: 1845232941
- ISBN: 1845232941
- Brand: Peepal Tree Press Ltd
- Manufacturer: Peepal Tree Press Ltd.
The title of Wife is both ironic and deeply serious. There are wittily sharp poems on the gender inequalities and potential prisons of marriage, that are in dialogue with poems that celebrate the physical joys of intimacy and poems that explore the processes of self-creation that take place in the closeness to the male other. These spare, elegant p... [Read More]
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