| Writing Short Stories: A Writers' and Artists' Companion Contributor(s): Newland, Courttia (Author), Hershman, Tania (Author), Angier, Carole (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1408130807 ISBN-13: 9781408130803 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $25.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Style Manuals - Language Arts & Disciplines | Writing - Composition |
| Dewey: 808.31 |
| Series: Writers' and Artists' Companions |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.1" W x 7.8" (0.65 lbs) 304 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Writing Short Stories: A Writers' and Artists' Companionis 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Newland, Courttia: - Courttia Newland is a critically acclaimed novelist and short story writer. His works include A Book of Blues (2011) and, as co-editor, The Global Village (2009).Angier, Carole: - Carole Angier is the author of award-winning biographies Jean Rhys: Life & Work (shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize and winner of a Writers' Guild Non-Fiction Award) and The Double Bond: A Life of Primo Levi. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and currently a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Oxford Brookes University. She has edited several books of refugee writing, and teaches life writing at Birkbeck College, London University.Cline, Sally: - Sally Cline, award-winning biographer, short story writer and winner of the BBC short story contest, is the author of ten books, including ground-breaking biographies of Radclyffe Hall, Zelda Fitzgerald, and Lillian Hellman and Dashiell Hammett. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Advisory Fellow for the Royal Literary Fund and a judge and mentor for the Arts Council Escalator scheme. She has an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Anglia Ruskin University, where she is Writer in Residence and a mentor on the MA in Creative Writing. |