Short-Form Creative Writing: A Writer's Guide and Anthology

By Joe Wilkins, H.K. Hummel, Stephanie Lenox, et al.

Book Overview

Short-Form Creative Writing: A Writer's Guide and Anthology is a complete introduction to the art and craft of extremely compressed works of imaginative literature. H. K. Hummel and Stephanie Lenox introduce both traditional and innovative approaches to the short form and demonstrate how it possesses structure, logic, and coherence while simultaneously resisting expectations. With discussion questions, writing prompts, flash interviews, and illustrated key concepts, the book covers:

- Prose poetry
- Flash fiction
- Micro memoir
- Lyric essay
- Cross-genre/hybrid writing

. . . and much more.

Short-Form Creative Writing also includes an anthology, offering inspiring examples of short-form writing in all of the styles covered by the book, including work by Charles Baudelaire, Italo Calvino, Lydia Davis, Grant Faulkner, Ilya Kaminsky, Jamaica Kinkaid, and many others.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350019887
• ISBN13: 9781350019881
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

I don't normally like regular writing prompts, so the excercises in this book is great.

The material proved so helpful to me when it comes to writing. The short-form is great to improve writing as a whole, and this book gives great information on how to do that by using how a sentence is structured, teaching you to condense your writing, and more. It includes great writing excercises to better grasp the material. I left with appreciating short-form. 😌