Creating Fiction: Instruction and Insights from Teachers of the Associated Writing Programs. This item is unavailable.Creating Fiction: Instruction and Insights from Teachers of the Associated Writing Programs

Visit the workshops of twenty-three of the best fiction-writing teachers in the country. Learn how to revise from Pulitzer Prize-winner Jane Smiley. Find new ways to evoke time and place from Richard Russo, author of Nobody's Fool. National Book Award - winner Charles Johnson offers a passionate discussion of the writer's apprenticeship. Lan Samantha Chang, author of the acclaimed story collection Hunger, presents strategies for structuring stories. John Barth, one of the most influential writers and theorists of the past forty years, explores elements of storytelling. Creating Fiction is a partnership between Story Press and the Associated Writing Programs, an organization of nearly three hundred college and university writing programs. The contributors, members of the AWP, have taught thousands of students the art and craft of telling stories. Now their experience and wisdom can be found in one comprehensive book.

Synopsis
Readers learn how to revise and edit from Jane Smiley. They find ways to evoke time and place from Richard Russo. Charles Johnson offers a passionate discussion of the writer’s apprenticeship. Lan Samantha Chang presents strategies for structuring stories; Charles Baxter explores tone and emphasis. W.D. Wetherell shows how to develop minor characters.

The contributors to "Creating Fiction"--members of the Associated Writing Programs--have won awards such as the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Magazine Award. They have led workshops, published stories and novels, and now their experience and wisdom can be found in one landmark book.

Each chapter ends with three exercises. Forty more, culled from teachers across the country, appear in a special section at the end of the book. "Creating Fiction" will engage and delight readers at any level of experience.