Creative Writing & Creative Writing Guides

‘It’s all real. All of it. Everything bad is real’ - MoeAlistair McDowall’s Pomona was first staged in 2014 and won properly startling, and startle...

Community Writing: Researching Social Issues Through Composition employs a series of assignments that guide students to research and write about is...

‘It’s all real. All of it. Everything bad is real’ - MoeAlistair McDowall’s Pomona was first staged in 2014 and won properly startling, and startle...

Craft lives inside the artist, and it operates in the mind, not in standards or techniques. Creative writers navigate thresholds in consciousness a...

A Guide to Screenwriting Success, Second Edition provides a comprehensive overview of writing—and rewriting—a screenplay or teleplay and writing fo...

A Guide to Screenwriting Success, Second Edition provides a comprehensive overview of writing—and rewriting—a screenplay or teleplay and writing fo...

The work of dramatists such as George Chapman, Thomas Heywood, Cyril Tourneur, John Webster, Thomas Middleton and John Ford can profitably be studi...

The twenty-eight essays of this collection, first published in 1962, are the work of distinguished British, Canadian, and American scholars. The es...

Writing Adaptations and Translations for the Stage is a practical guide for writing adapted works for theatrical performance.Broadway translator an...

Many writers dream of having their work published by a respected publishing house, but don’t always understand publishing contract terms – what the...

This is the third edition of Character Development and Storytelling for Games, a standard work in the field that brings all of the teaching from th...

Many writers dream of having their work published by a respected publishing house, but don’t always understand publishing contract terms – what the...

Although historical research undertaken in different disciplines often requires speculation and imagination, it remains relatively rare for scholar...

This book explores slash fan fiction communities during the pivotal years of the late 1990s and early 2000s as the practice transitioned from print...

‘Still Writing offers up a cornucopia of wisdom, insights, and practical lessons gleaned from Dani Shapiro’s long experience as a celebrated writer...

Offering a multidisciplinary exploration of “flow” and the often-nebulous ways it is conceptualized and operationalized in writing pedagogy, this b...

Marco Paolini: A Deep Map breaks new ground in the field of Italian political theatre by outlining the unique approach of one of Italy’s most celeb...

In this book, Alexander Ross highlights how creative entrepreneurs saved the Hollywood studios in the 1970s by establishing the calculated blockbus...

In times that are rife with complex manifestations of identity politics, writing classrooms across the world are hosting heated debates about what ...

Words have power. Yet that power must be rooted in truth and justice. Words must never stand apart from those principles.'You end this collection…v...

Crammed with crucial facts, ideas, and warnings never before brought together into clear focus, this guide is not only fun to read, but also work-b...

For more than a quarter of a century, Pat Schneider has helped writers find and liberate their true voices. She has taught all kinds--the award win...

This creative and original book develops a framework for situated writing as theory and method, and presents a trilogy of untimely academic novella...

First published in 1977, this book examines the short story, which is one of the most widely read of all modern genres. The study begins by examini...

Foreword by M. G. Leonard: 'It's rare to find a book that's as useful as it is inspiring ... essential reading.'The indispensable guide to writing ...

Writing Compelling Dialogue for Film and TV is a practical guide that provides you, the screenwriter, with a clear set of exercises, tools, and met...

This edited collection offers self-reflexive, critical accounts of how feminist writing studies scholars variously situated within rhetoric, compos...

This edited collection provides the first principled examination of social justice and the advancement of opportunity as the aim and consequence of...

Kirsten Malmkjær argues that translating can and should be considered a valuable art form. Examining notions of creativity and their relationship w...

First published in 1981, this book represents the first work in English to give a comprehensive account of the revolutionary developments in German...

Prolific Moment: Theory and Practice of Mindfulness for Writing foregrounds the present in all activities of composing, offering a new perspective ...

Playwriting with Purpose: A Guide and Workbook for New Playwrights provides a holistic approach to playwriting from an award-winning playwright and...

The rise of Creative Writing has been accompanied from the start by two questions: can it be taught, and should it be taught? This scepticism is so...

The rise of Creative Writing has been accompanied from the start by two questions: can it be taught, and should it be taught? This scepticism is so...

Playwriting with Purpose: A Guide and Workbook for New Playwrights provides a holistic approach to playwriting from an award-winning playwright and...

In New Dramaturgies: Strategies and Exercises for 21st Century Playwriting, Mark Bly offers a new playwriting book with nine unique play-generating...

A study at many levels of Scott’s long poem Coming to Jakarta, a book-length response to a midlife crisis triggered in part by the author’s initial...

Writing Talk includes interviews with nineteen well-known contemporary writers, exploring the ways in which they research and find their original i...

"Ladies and gentlemen, I‘m not going to play this particular scene tonight." - Sabina Thornton Wilder‘s The Skin of Our Teeth (1942) telescopes an ...

Translating for performance is a difficult – and hotly contested – activity. Adapting Translation for the Stage presents a sustained dialogue betwe...

Kirsten Malmkjær argues that translating can and should be considered a valuable art form. Examining notions of creativity and their relationship w...

The first decade of the Jacobean age witnessed a sudden profusion of comedies satirizing city life; among these were comedies by Ben Jonson, John M...

Advanced Creative Nonfiction: A Writers’ Guide and Anthology offers expert instruction on writing creative nonfiction in any form—including memoir,...

The extraordinary character of Ben Jonson has only recently been brought into the light. Critics traditionally exalted Shakespeare, at Jonson’s exp...

The book, first published in 1988, examines the role of magic in Elizabethan and Shakespearean theatre. The author observes how certain plays, incl...