Writing Short Stories: A Writers'' and Artists'' Companion

Name: Writing Short Stories: A Writers'' and Artists'' Companion
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
SKU: 9781408130803
Price: 22.61 EUR
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By (author): Courttia Newland Tania Hershman

Writing Short Stories: A Writers' and Artists' Companion is an essential guide to writing short fiction successfully. PART 1 explores the nature and history of the form, personal reflections by the editors, and help getting started with ideas, planning and research. PART 2 includes tips by leading short story writers, including: Alison Moore, Jane Rogers, Edith Pearlman, David Vann, Anthony Doerr, Vanessa Gebbie, Alexander MacLeod, Adam Thorpe and Elspeth Sandys. PART 3 contains practical advice - from shaping plots and exploring your characters to beating writers' block, rewriting and publishing your stories. See more

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Weight: 284g
Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
Publication Date: 18 Dec 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781408130803

About Courttia NewlandTania Hershman

Courttia Newland is the author of seven works of fiction. His latest The Gospel According to Cane was published in 2013 and has been optioned by Cowboy Films as TV Serial for the BBC. He was nominated for the Impac Dublin Literary Award and The Frank O Conner award as well as numerous others. His short stories have appeared in many anthologies and broadcast on Radio 4. He is Associate Lecturer in Creative Writing at Birkbeck University of London UK and is completing a PhD in Creative Writing. Tania Hershman is an award-winning writer of short and very short stories which have been widely published in print and online and broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and 4. Her first collection The White Road and other Stories (2008) was commended 2009 Orange Award for New Writers. Her second My Mother Was An Upright Piano: Fictions (2012) contains 56 very short fictions and was longlisted for the 2012 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. Tania is founding editor of The Short Review curator-in-chief of UK & Ireland short story hub ShortStops and regularly teaches workshops on short fiction and using science as inspiration. Her website is www.taniahershman.com