"Graeme Harper is quite possibly the best person in the country to edit this book" -Richard Kerridge, Bath Spa University College, UK
The Creative Writing Guidebook is the key text for learning creative writing. Packed full of useful advice, exercises and readings, it sets out an informative and inspiring introduction to writing creatively. Taking a practical, workshop approach to creative writing, this comprehensive guidebook includes: introductions to genres of writing, including the novel, poetry, screenwriting, new media and non-fiction; workshop exercises suitable for each genre; a wide-range of examples and suggestions for further reading and discussions of cross-genre issues such as point of view, character, setting and voice.
Written by internationally renowned experts, this is the definitive textbook on creative writing for students.
Contributors include: Catherine Dent, Ken Dancyge, Adrianne Finlay, Graeme Harper, Gill James, Jeri Kroll, Oliver Mayer, Graham Mort, William S. Penn, Hazel Smith, and Silas Zobal
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Introduction, Graeme Harper (University of Bangor, UK)
I. The Workshops
1. Short Fiction Works, Catherine Dent (Shippensburg University, USA) and Silas Zobal (Dickenson College, USA)
2. Poetry Workshop, Jeri Kroll (Flinders University, Australia)
3. Novel Workshop, Graeme Harper (University of Bangor, UK)
4. Playwriting Workshop, Oliver Mayer (USC School of Theatre, USA)
5. Scriptwriting Workshop, Ken Dancyger (New York University, USA)
6. Radio Writing Workshop, Graham Mort (Lancaster University, UK)
7. New Media Workshop, Hazel Smith (University of Western Sydney, Australia)
8. Creative Non-Fiction Workshop, William S Penn (Michigan State University, USA)
9. Writing for Children Workshop, Gill James (University of Salford, USA)
II. Across the Workshops
10. Structure, Style, Theme, Adrianne Finlay (Binghampton University, USA)
11. Voice, Form, Point of View, Graeme Harper (University of Bangor, UK)
Author biographies
Bibliography
Index
About the Author :
Graeme Harper is Professor of Creative Writing and Dean of The Honors College at Oakland University, Michigan, USA. He is Editor of the Approaches to Writing Series at Bloomsbury, Editor of the New Writing journal and is Chair of the Creative Writing Studies Organization (CWSO) in the USA. He was also inaugural Chair of HE at the UK’s National Association of Writers in Education (NAWE) and is an award-winning fiction writer, Professor and Honorary Professor.
Review :
Mention -Book News, February 2009
"Graeme Harper is quite possibly the best person in the country to edit this book." - Richard Kerridge, Bath Spa University, UK
"[Creative Writing Guidebook] is much more than simply another book of creative writing exercises ... Clearly informed by academic enquiry into Creative Writing practice, it is also about developing and exploring, often in surprisingly idiosyncratic ways, what Harper calls the ‘active critical sense' of the writer." - Writing in Education
