The Creative Writing Coursebook
forty-four authors share advice and exercises for fiction and poetry
$57.83
- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
26 August 2019
Summary
The success and popularity of creative writing courses at universities across the country belies the myth that writing can’t be taught.
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 a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781509868278 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1509868275 |
| Author: | Julia Bell, Paul Magrs |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Macmillan |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 26 August 2019 |
| Weight: | 470g |
| Dimensions: | 209mm x 149mm x 34mm |
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About The Author
Julia Bell
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.
Paul Magrs lives and writes in Manchester. In a twenty-five year writing career he has published novels in every genre from Literary to Gothic Mystery to Science Fiction for adults and young adults. His most recent books include the concluding volume in a science fiction trilogy for kids - The Heart of Mars, and Fellowship of Ink. He has taught Creative Writing at both the University of East Anglia and Manchester Metropolitan University, and now writes full time.
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