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

H. K. Hummel (University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA),Stephanie Lenox (Willamette College, USA)

Short-Form Creative Writing: A Writer's Guide and Anthology
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Country
United Kingdom
Published
15 November 2018
Pages
368
ISBN
9781350019898

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

H. K. Hummel (University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA),Stephanie Lenox (Willamette College, USA)

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.

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