Creative writing project reading list
Writing handbooks
General
- Bell, Julia and Magrs, Paul eds, The Creative Writing Coursebook (London, Macmillan, 2001)
- Boran, Pat, The Portable Creative Writing Workshop (Moher, Salmon, 1999)
- Goodwin, Mark and Tyler-Bennett, Deborah eds, Poetry, Prose, and Playfulness for Teachers, Writers, and Learners (Leicester, Leicester County Council Press, 2004)
- Newman, Jenny, Cusick, Edmund and La Tourette, Aileen eds, The Writer's Workbook, 2nd edition (London, Arnold, 2004)
Fiction
- Burroway, Janet and Weinberg, Susan Writing Fiction: a Guide to Narrative Craft, 6th edition (New York, Addison Wesley Longman, 2002)
- Le Guin, Ursula K Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew (Portland, Oregon, Eight Mountain Press, 1998)
Memoir
- Barrington, Judith Writing the Memoir: From Truth to Art. A practical guide to the craft, the personal challenges, and ethical dilemmas of writing your true stories (Portland, Oregon, Eight Mountain Press, 1997)
Poetry
- Sansom, Peter Writing Poems (Newcastle, Bloodaxe, 1994)
Guides and reference works on poetic forms
General
- Deutsch, Babette Poetry Handbook: A Dictionary of Terms, 4th edition (New York, HarperResource, 1982)
- Fraser, G. S. Metre, Rhyme and Free Verse, The Critical Idiom (London, Methuen, 1970) [several reprints; now out of print]
- Preminger, Alex and Brogan, T.V.F. eds, The New Princeton Encyclopaedia of Poetry and Poetics (Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1993)
- Stillman, Frances The Poet's Manual and Rhyming Dictionary (London, Thames and Hudson, 2004) [latest of many reprints]
- Strand, Mark and Boland, Eavan eds, The Making of A Poem (New York, Norton, 2000)
Rhyming dictionaries
- Stillman, Frances The Poet's Manual and Rhyming Dictionary (London, Thames and Hudson, 2004) [latest of many reprints]
Haiku
- Henderson, Harold G. Haiku in English (Rutland, Vermont, Charles E Tuttle, 1967) [often reprinted]
- Dictionary of Riddles, ed. Mark Bryant (London, Routledge, 1990)
- The Exeter Book Riddles, trans Kevin Crossley-Holland (Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1979)
- A Feast of Creatures: Anglo-Saxon Riddle-Songs, trans Craig Williamson (London, Scolar Press, 1982) [good introduction]
- 'Riddle' in The New Princeton Encyclopaedia of Poetry and Poetics, ed Alex Preminger and T.V.F. Brogan (Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1993)
- 'Riddles' in Funk and Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology and Legend, ed Maria Leach, 2 vols (New York, Funk and Wagnalls, 1949, 1950)
Writers reflect on writing
Writers reflect on writing
- The Art of Writing. Teachings of the Chinese Masters, trans. and ed. Tony Barnstone and Chou Ping (Boston, Shambhala, 1996)
- Boland, Eavan Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time (London, Vintage, 1996)
- Fitzmaurice, Gabriel Kerry on My Mind, (Moher, Salmon, 2000)
- Hemingway, Ernest Ernest Hemingway on Writing, ed. Larry W. Phillips (New York, Simon and Schuster, 1999)
- Heyen, William Pig Notes and Dumb Music: Prose on Poetry (Rochester, BOA Editions, 1998)
- Le Guin, Ursula K., 'The Language of the Night' in Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction, ed. Susan Wood, (New York, G P Putnam's Sons, 1979)
- Levertov, Denise The Poet in the World (New York, New Directions, 1973)
- Mackay Brown, George Northern Lights: A Poet's Sources (London, John Murray, 1999)
- Milosz, Czeslaw The Witness of Poetry (Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1983)
Poetry, story-telling and traditional communities
- Carson, Ciaran Last Night's Fun (London: Pimlico, 1996)
- Hickey, Donal Stone Mad For the Music (Dublin: Marino, 1999)
- Mackay Brown, George For the Islands I Sing (London: John Murray, 1998)
- Neat, Timothy and MacInnes, JohnThe Voice of the Bard: Living Poets and Ancient Tradition in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1999)
- Neat, Timothy The Summer Walkers (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1996)
Guides to constructing web pages and websites
- Castro, Elizabeth HTML for the World Wide Web, 5th edition (Berkeley, Ca, Peachpit Press, 2002)
- Lynch, P.J. and Horton, Sarah Web Style Guide: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites 2nd edition (New Haven, Yale University Press, 2001)
- Niederst, Jennifer Web Design in a Nutshell, 2nd edition (Sebastopol, Ca, O'Reilly, 2001)
Where to publish
- Finch, Peter How to Publish Your Poetry (London, Allison and Busby, 1998)
Annual publications
- Breen, Nancy ed, Poet's Market 2005 (Cincinatti, Writer's Digest Books, 2004)
- Brogan, Kathryn S ed, Writer's Market 2005 (Cincinatti, Writer's Digest Books, 2004)
- Feeke, James ed, The Small Press Guide 2003 (Peterborough, Writer's Bookshop, 2002)
- Light, John Light's List of Literary Magazines (Northumberland, Photon Press, 2004)
- Turner, Barry ed, The Writer's Handbook 2005 (London: Macmillan, 2004)
- Writers' and Artists' Yearbook 2005 (London, A & C Black, 2004)
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