The Creative Writing Coursebook: Forty-Four Authors Share Advice and Exercises for Fiction and Poetry - Softcover

Bell, Julia; Magrs, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1509868275 ISBN 13: 9781509868278

Publisher: Macmillan, 2019

Synopsis

A fully updated comprehensive guide for improving and practicing your creative writing, including contributions from Ali Smith and Kit de Waal

The Creative Writing Coursebook, edited by Julia Bell and Paul Magrs, takes aspiring writers through three stages of essential practice: Gathering – getting started, learning how to keep notes, making observations and using memory; Shaping – looking at structure, point of view, character and setting; and Finishing – being your own critic, joining workshops and finding publishers.

Fully updated and including a foreword by Marina Warner and contributions from forty-four authors such as Kit de Waal and Amy Liptrot, this is the perfect book for people who are just starting to write as well as for those who want some help honing work already completed. Filled with a wealth of exercises and activities, it will inspire budding writers to develop and hone their skills. Whether writing for publication, in a group or just for pleasure this comprehensive guide is for anyone who is ready to put pen to paper.

About this title

About the Author

Julia Bell is a writer and Senior Lecturer at Birkbeck College, London where she is the Course Director of the Creative Writing MA. She is the author of three novels, most recently The Dark Light, the co editor of the Creative Writing Coursebook as well as three volumes of short stories. She also takes photographs, writes poetry, short stories, occasional essays and journalism. She divides her time between London and Berlin.

Edition details

• Publisher: Macmillan
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1509868275
• ISBN 13: 9781509868278
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448