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

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Short-Form Creative Writing: A Writer's Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury Writer's Guides and Anthologies) 1st Edition, Kindle Edition

• ISBN-13 978-1350019881
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• Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date November 15, 2018
• Language English
• File size 4940 KB
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“Although this book is a writing guide and anthology for the short form, Hummel and Lenox include sections on key concepts that are relevant to any class in writing fiction--for example, image, voice, style. The authors address thematic and stylistic concerns of brevity in recurring chapter features such as ‘One-Sentence Workshop,’ which allow students to try out aspects of short-form technique. The opening chapter includes an in-depth history of the short form, a rare offering in such ‘flash’ textbooks … The authors include work by writers as varied as Charles Baudelaire, Terry Tempest Williams, and Ocean Vuong, and the result is a thoughtfully produced volume offering variety in theme and approach, national origin, cultural background, and time period … Summing Up: Recommended.” - CHOICE “[A] comprehensive book with helpful sections on narrative voice, time and space, sentence structure, logic, humor, revision, and other integral elements of craft specifically geared toward the short creative prose form. The guide is filled with writing exercises and prompts, and includes an anthology of over fifty exemplary short-form pieces.” - Poets & Writers “A complete introduction to the art and craft of extremely compressed works of imaginative literature. Aspiring writers are introduced to both traditional and innovative approaches to the short form and demonstrate how it possesses structure, logic, and coherence while simultaneously resisting expectations … While especially and unreservedly recommended for community, college, and university library Literary Studies and Writing/Publishing collections, it should be noted for the personal reading lists of students and aspiring writers.” - Midwest Book Review

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• ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07HCZ8BJY
• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bloomsbury Academic; 1st edition (November 15, 2018)
• Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 15, 2018
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• File size ‏ : ‎ 4940 KB
• Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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• Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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• Print length ‏ : ‎ 369 pages
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Stephanie lenox.

Stephanie Lenox is the co-author of Short-Form Creative Writing: A Writer's Guide and Anthology with H.K. Hummel. Her most recent poetry collection, The Business, was selected as the winner of the 2015 Colorado Prize in Poetry. She is the author of Congress of Strange People, and a chapbook, The Heart That Lies Outside the Body, winner of the Slapering Hol Chapbook Competition. She lives in Salem, Oregon, and works as an editor at Chemeketa Press. For more, please visit www.stephanielenox.com.

H. K. Hummel

H.K. Hummel is the author of Lessons in Breathing Underwater (Sundress Publications, 2019), and the co-author of Short-Form Creative Writing: A Writer's Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury, 2018). She is an Associate Professor of creative writing at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.

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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 Kincaid, and many others.

“Although this book is a writing guide and anthology for the short form, Hummel and Lenox include sections on key concepts that are relevant to any class in writing fiction--for example, image, voice, style. The authors address thematic and stylistic concerns of brevity in recurring chapter features such as ‘One-Sentence Workshop,’ which allow students to try out aspects of short-form technique. The opening chapter includes an in-depth history of the short form, a rare offering in such ‘flash’ textbooks … The authors include work by writers as varied as Charles Baudelaire, Terry Tempest Williams, and Ocean Vuong, and the result is a thoughtfully produced volume offering variety in theme and approach, national origin, cultural background, and time period … Summing Up: Recommended.” - CHOICE

“[A] comprehensive book with helpful sections on narrative voice, time and space, sentence structure, logic, humor, revision, and other integral elements of craft specifically geared toward the short creative prose form. The guide is filled with writing exercises and prompts, and includes an anthology of over fifty exemplary short-form pieces.” - Poets & Writers

“A complete introduction to the art and craft of extremely compressed works of imaginative literature. Aspiring writers are introduced to both traditional and innovative approaches to the short form and demonstrate how it possesses structure, logic, and coherence while simultaneously resisting expectations … While especially and unreservedly recommended for community, college, and university library Literary Studies and Writing/Publishing collections, it should be noted for the personal reading lists of students and aspiring writers.” - Midwest Book Review

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H. K. Hummel and Stephanie Lenox introduce “writing that prioritizes brevity over page count, compression over expansion, and distillation of image and voice over development of plot and character” in this comprehensive book with helpful sections on narrative voice, time and space, sentence structure, logic, humor, revision, and other integral elements of craft specifically geared toward the short creative prose form. The guide is filled with writing exercises and prompts, and includes an anthology of over fifty exemplary short-form pieces by authors such as Matt Bell, Lydia Davis, Natalie Diaz, Amy Hempel, Jamaica Kincaid, Ada Limón, Justin Torres, and Ocean Vuong.

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