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Creative Writing
CREATIVE WRITING
Your First Page
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By Peter Selgin
NEW!
$26.95 | 360pp | 2019
6x9 paper | 9781554814731
“I have long taught the critical importance of the first few pages of any work of fiction. What a delight to find a smart, perceptive, enormously useful book that focuses on the craft and technique issues of these same make-or-break first 500 words. I heartily recommend Peter Selgin’s Your First Page to any aspiring young writer.” — ROBERT OLEN BUTLER,
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER AND AUTHOR OF FROM WHERE YOU DREAM: THE PROCESS OF WRITING FICTION
Your First Page is unlike any other craft book on writing. It is based on the premise that practically everything that can go right or wrong in a work of fiction or memoir goes wrong or right on the first page. Those first 300 or so words function like canaries in coal mines, forecasting success or predicting trouble. They establish the crucial bond between writer and reader, setting them off together on a path toward the heart or climax of a story—or they fail to do so. From first pages we stand to learn most of what we need to know to succeed as authors. This new workshop and classroom edition of Your First Page has been revised to better fit the needs of creative writing classrooms and workshops.
Write Moves: A Creative Writing Guide and Anthology
By Nancy Pagh
$45.75 | 448pp | 2016 6.5x9 paper | 9781554812264 (only available in Canada and the US)
Write Moves is an invitation for the student to understand and experience creative writing in the larger frame of humanities education. The practical instruction offered comes in the form of “moves” or tactics for the apprentice writer to try. The book focuses on concise, human-voiced instruction in poetry, the short story, and the short creative nonfiction essay.
By Stephen Guppy
$27.50 | 304pp | 2016 6x9 paper | 9781554813087 (only available in Canada and the US)
Most texts on creative writing emphasize either sources of inspiration or strategies for editing. The process of getting from initial inspiration to final draft isn’t often dealt with in any practical way. Writing and Workshopping Poetry focuses on all three phases of the process of composition: finding the material; building and developing the poem from rough draft to complete work; editing and refining.
Understanding the Essay
Edited by Patricia Foster and Jeff Porter
$35.75 | 280pp | 2012
6x9 paper | 9781554810208
“Understanding the Essay is a magnificently intelligent examination of the essay’s diverse pleasures, with fresh, revealing looks at writers from Montaigne to David Foster Wallace.” — DINTY W.
MOORE, AUTHOR OF CRAFTING THE PERSONAL ESSAY
How Poems Work
$10.25 | Web Resource | 2017
9781554812622
How Poems Work provides provides a wideranging, engaging resource for the study of poetry. It may be used on its own, in conjunction with a Broadview anthology, or with any other Broadview book. Materials available through the site include interactive exercises designed to help readers understand the workings of poetic meter; a sound archive providing samples of poems from other eras spoken as they would have been in the English of their time; a glossary of literary terms; case studies of individual poems; and new commentaries by contemporary poets on how poems work.
INDEX
Academic Reading 23 Academic Writing: An Introduction 23 Academic Writing Now 2 Academic Writing, Real World Topics 14 ACHESON, Katherine O. 23 Argument Handbook, The 11 ARNTFIELD, Michael 22 BABINGTON, Doug 9 BENDER, Melissa 7 Black in America: Readings for Writers 18 BONK, Robert J. 22 BOYNE, Martin 13 BURGOYNE, Daniel 15, 23 Business and Professional Writing: A Basic Guide 21 BUZZARD, Laura 10, 13, 15-18 BV Anth of Expository Prose, The 16, 17 BV Book of Common Errors in English, The 13 BV Guide to Writing, The 8-9 BV Pocket Glossary of Literary Terms, The 10 BV Pocket Guide to Citation, The 10 BV Pocket Guide to Writing, The 9 BV Reader, The 18 CARL, Lisa 14 CASSON, Leslie E. 10 Clear Writing 18 DE LEON, Randi Brummett 6 Dynamics of Business and Professional Communication 19 EDWARDS, Jessica 18 Essays and Arguments: A Handbook for Writing Student Essays 12 FLICK, Jane 18 Focus on Writing 5 FOSTER, Patricia 24 FROST, Corey 8-9 GARRETT-PETTS, W.F. 23 GILTROW, Janet 23 GOODING, Richard 15, 23 GOODMAN, Allegra 1 Grammar by Diagram 12 GRAVES, Heather 19-20 GRAVES, Roger 19-20 GUPPY, Stephen 24 Healthcare Writing: A Practical Guide to Professional Success 22 HOLBROOK, Susan 23 How to Read (and Write About) Poetry 23 How to Be Good with Words 13 HUGHES, Brooke 6 JOHNSTON, Ian 12 JOHNSTON, James 22 LEPAN, Don 8-10, 13, 15-18 LEWIS, Stephen 13 MACRAE, Paul 21 Mad Scientist’s Guide to Composition 3 MARTIN, Robert M. 13 MATHER, Marjorie 18 MCLENITHAN, Brett 18 MCMILLAN, Laurie 5 Modern English Structures 13 NELSON-MCDERMOTT, Catherine 15 O’DWYER, Bernard T. 13 OKUN, Maureen 8-10, 13 PAGH, Nancy 24 PETERS, K.J. 11 PIDGEN, Emmeline 1 PORTER, Jeff 24 PRINCE, Michael 1 RADER, Dean 4 RECTENWALD, Michael 14 Research Now 15 ROSENGARTEN, Herbert 18 RUDDOCK, Nora 8-10, 16-18 SAWATSKY, Marlene 23 Science and Society 15 SILVERMAN, Jonathan 4 Speaking of Writing 1 STARKEY, David 2 Strategic Guide to Technical Communication, A 20 STUART, Alexandria 16-18 Templates 13 Understanding the Essay 24 VITTO, Cindy L. 12 WALTONEN, Karma 7 WEINGARTEN, Karen 8-9 WEINSTOCK, Jeffrey Andrew 3 Who’s Your Source? 7 World Is a Text, The 4 Write Here 6 Write Moves 24 Writer’s Handbook, A 10 Writing about Literature 23 Writing and Workshopping Poetry 24 Writing Essays About Literature 23
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