Creative Writing & Creative Writing Guides

Writer Identity and the Teaching and Learning of Writing is a groundbreaking book which addresses what it really means to identify as a writer in e...

Writing Fiction offers the novice writer engaging and creative activities, making use of insightful, relevant readings from well-known authors to i...

A college student writes: “These words I write/ open their mouths wide/ screaming the most intimate secrets.” An inmate in a maximum-security men...

A college student writes: “These words I write/ open their mouths wide/ screaming the most intimate secrets.” An inmate in a maximum-security men...

The Screenwriter’s Path takes a comprehensive approach to learning how to write a screenplay—allowing the writer to use it as both a reference and ...

What is creative writing? In Critical Approaches to Creative Writing, Graeme Harper draws on both creative and critical knowledge to look at what c...

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

First published in 1988, this title is a study of the essay as a literary genre, not just in terms of its general intellectual and literary history...

This volume presents new versions of key chapters from the recent Routledge/Open University textbook, Creative Writing: A Workbook with Readings fo...

"We lay there without moving. But under us all moved, and moved us." - KrappSamuel Beckett’s most accessible play is also one of the twentieth cent...

This new edition of Writing Short Stories has been updated throughout to include new and revised exercises, up-to-date coverage of emerging technol...

First published in 1988, this book contains entries on famous American Humorists. Humor has been present in American literature, from the beginning...

This book, first published in 1955, was written at the request of the BBC in an attempt to help the professional writer to take advantage of the op...

First published in 1985, this bibliography focuses on the works of S. J. Perelman as a humorist, author, and screenwriter. It is divided into two m...

Vernacular Christian Rhetoric and Civil Discourse seeks to address the current gap in American public discourse between secular liberals and religi...

First published in 1992, this book focuses on the oeuvre of S. J. Perelman. Taken together, the essays included serve as an introduction to this im...

A Critical Companion to Lynn Nottage places this renowned, award-winning playwright's contribution to American theatre in scholarly context. The vo...

Grounded in craft, this book was composed on three premises: That the study and modeling of great poems is integral to understanding poetry and lea...

Grounded in craft, this book was composed on three premises: That the study and modeling of great poems is integral to understanding poetry and lea...

Stan Malles and Jeff McQuain have written this brief, yet very important glossary in the spirit of E.D. Hirsch’s bestselling Cultural Literacy. Her...

First published in 1988, this title is a study of the essay as a literary genre, not just in terms of its general intellectual and literary history...

Film Genre for the Screenwriter is a practical study of how classic film genre components can be used in the construction of a screenplay. Based on...

The Rowman & Littlefield Guide to Writing with Sources offers the most thorough and up-to-date discussion of plagiarism and the proper use of s...

"No one is better than Michael Hauge at finding what is most authentic in every moment of a story...." Will Smith, actor "In the field of teaching ...

"I've made four thousand six hundred medium-sized quiches and personally baked two tons of light crust pastry. And for what?'" As a clergy w...

Myth and Creative Writing is a unique and practical guide to the arts of creative writing. It: Gives a historical perspective on the storyteller's ...

Focusing on the neglected journalism of writers more famous for their novels or plays, this new book explores the specific functions of journalism ...

Focusing on the neglected journalism of writers more famous for their novels or plays, this new book explores the specific functions of journalism ...

Based on the author's teaching methods and experience, the book presents an examination and analysis of the creative process of playwriting through...

Based on the author's teaching methods and experience, the book presents an examination and analysis of the creative process of playwriting through...

Are you beginning a creative writing course? Or thinking about taking one?Doing Creative Writing is the ideal guide to what you should expect, what...

What makes fantasy different from other types of fiction? How do you build a science fiction world? Does magic need rules? From outer space to cybe...

'Lately, I am trying to provoke myself into art - into writing... I wasn't exactly in despair - I was in cynicism, which is despair's more torpid s...

In a world where literary scandals often end up in court, the issue of responsibility in writing has never been more important. In this groundbreak...

In a world where literary scandals often end up in court, the issue of responsibility in writing has never been more important. In this groundbreak...

In The Forgotten Tribe: Scientists as Writers, Lisa Emerson offers an important corrective to the view that scientists are "poor writers, unnecessa...

In A Minefield of Dreams: Triumphs and Travails of Independent Writing Programs, Justin Everett and Cristina Hanganu-Bresch highlight both cautiona...