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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]

  • On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft

    • ASIN: B000FC0SIM
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

  • 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]

  • Creating Short Fiction: The Classic Guide to Writing Short Fiction

    • ASIN: 0312150946
    • ISBN: 0312150946
    • Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin

    Distilled from decades of teaching and practice, this book offers clear and direct advice on structure, pacing, dialogue, getting ideas, working with the unconscious, and more. Newly revised and expanded for this Third Edition, Creating Short Fiction is a popular and widely trusted guide to writing short stories of originality, durability, and qual... [Read More]

  • Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel (Before You Waste Three Years Writing 327 Pages That Go Nowhere)

    • ASIN: 1607748894
    • ISBN: 9781607748892
    • Manufacturer: Ten Speed Press

    Following on the heels of Lisa Cron's breakout first book, Wired for Story, this writing guide reveals how to use cognitive storytelling strategies to build a scene-by-scene blueprint for a riveting story. It’s every novelist’s greatest fear: pouring their blood, sweat, and tears into writing hundreds of pages only to realize that their story h... [Read More]

  • 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]

  • How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays

    • ASIN: B073XC5MTY
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    Named a Best Book by: TIME, Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, Wired, Esquire, Buzzfeed, New York Public Library, Boston Globe, The Paris Review, Mother Jones,The A.V. Club, Out Magazine, Book Riot, Electric Literature, PopSugar, The Rumpus, My Republica, Paste, Bitch, Library Journal, Flavorwire, Bustle, Christian Science Monitor, She... [Read More]

  • The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing

    • ASIN: 039333872X
    • ISBN: 039333872X
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

    “I don’t know why we do it. We must be crazy./Welcome, fellow poet.”―Richard Hugo Richard Hugo, whom Carolyn Kizer called “one of the most passionate, energetic and honest poets living,” was that rare phenomenon―a distinguished poet who was also an inspiring teacher. The Triggering Town is Hugo’s classic collection of lectures, essa... [Read More]

  • Damn Fine Story: Mastering the Tools of a Powerful Narrative

    • ASIN: B075FXP591
    • Manufacturer: Writer's Digest Books

    Hook Your Audience with Unforgettable Storytelling! What do Luke Skywalker, John McClane, an da lonely dog on Ho'okipa Beach have in common? Simply put, we care about them. Great storytelling is making readers care about your characters, the choices they make, and what happens to them. It's making your audience feel the tension and emotion of a sit... [Read More]

  • 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]

  • How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One

    • ASIN: 006184053X
    • ISBN: 006184053X
    • Brand: Harper Paperbacks
    • Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks

    New York Times Bestseller“Both deeper and more democratic than The Elements of Style” – Adam Haslett, Financial Times“A guided tour through some of the most beautiful, arresting sentences in the English language.” – Slate“Like a long periodic sentence, this book rumbles along, gathers steam, shifts gears, and packs a wallop.” �... [Read More]

  • The Best Creative Nonfiction, Vol. 1

    • UPC: 000393330036
    • ASIN: 0393330036
    • ISBN: 0393330036
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

    Narrative nonfiction at its cutting-edge best from writers at the cusp of recognition and fame. Lee Gutkind, proclaimed the "Godfather behind creative nonfiction" by Vanity Fair, along with the staff of his landmark journal Creative Nonfiction, has culled alternative publications, 'zines, blogs, podcasts, literary journals, and other often overlook... [Read More]

  • 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]

  • The Writer's Field Guide to the Craft of Fiction

    • ASIN: 0998518417
    • ISBN: 0998518417
    • Manufacturer: A Strange Object

    The Writers Field Guide to the Craft of Fiction offers a refreshing approach to the craft of fiction writing. It takes a single page from forty contemporary novels and short stories, identifies techniques used by the writers, and presents approachable exercises and prompts that allow anyone to put those techniques to immediate use in their own work... [Read More]

  • The Assimilated Cuban's Guide to Quantum Santeria

    • ASIN: B01AR4ZF26
    • Manufacturer: Rosarium Publishing

    A quirky collection of short sci-fi stories for fans of Kij Johnson and Kelly Link   Assimilation is founded on surrender and being broken; this collection of short stories features people who have assimilated, but are actively trying to reclaim their lives. There is a concert pianist who defies death by uploading his soul into his piano. There is... [Read More]

  • Moment Work: Tectonic Theater Project's Process of Devising Theater

    • ASIN: 1101971770
    • ISBN: 1101971770
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    A detailed guide to the collaborative method developed by the acclaimed creators of The Laramie Project and Gross Indecency--destined to become a classic. A Vintage Original.By Moisés Kaufman and Barbara Pitts McAdams with Leigh Fondakowski, Andy Paris, Greg Pierotti, Kelli Simpkins, Jimmy Maize, and Scott Barrow. For more than two decades, the me... [Read More]

  • 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]

  • 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]

  • Art-Write: The Writing Guide for Visual Artists

    • ASIN: 1937303128
    • ISBN: 1937303128
    • Brand: Brand: Luminare Press
    • Manufacturer: Vicki Krohn Amorose

    Art-Write:The Writing Guide for Visual Artists has a single intention: To teach artists how to write about their own artwork. This concise and current career resource is filled with achievable advice on how to write for art promotion and sales. The book offers a step-by-step approach to create a professional artist statement, with thinking and wri... [Read More]

  • Forbidden Professor (First-Time Secret Lessons Book 1)

    • ASIN: B07C3TQVTP
    • Manufacturer: Hughes Empire

    An orphaned first-year college student trapped alone with a virile professor. The muscular, single father fighting desire for his daughter's best friend. The night that spawns a secret that could crush three lives. Imagine them at the remote cabin, burning for each other in the out-of-control electrical storm that sparks forbidden passion. She love... [Read More]

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