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  Short-form creative writing : a writer's guide and anthology

  Author

  Hummel, H. K. (Heather K.), author.  

  Publisher:

  Bloomsbury Academic,

  Pub date:

  2019.

  Physical desc:

  xxiii, 338 pages :

  ISBN:

  9781350019898

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  Short-form creative writing : a writer's guide and anthology
  Hummel, H. K. (Heather K.), author.
  

  ISBN:

  9781350019898

  ISBN:

  1350019895

  ISBN:

  9781350019881

  ISBN:

  1350019887

  ISBN:

  (ISBN invalid)9781350019911

  ISBN:

  (ISBN invalid)9781350019904

  Personal Author:

  Hummel, H. K. (Heather K.), author.

  Title:

  Short-form creative writing : a writer's guide and anthology / by H.K. Hummel and Stephanie Lenox.

  Publication info:

  London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.

  Copyright notice:

  ©2019

  Physical descrip:

  xxiii, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

  Bibliography note:

  Includes bibliographical references and index.

  Contents:

  Part I. An introduction to short-form creative writing : A long history of the short form : Flash interview with Pía Barros ; Vignette : Urgency and the short form ; In the beginning ; A note on genre ; What is short-form writing? ; Two worlds collide ; Dissecting the dinosaur ; Conclusion : Stealing strategies -- Part II. The craft of short-form creative writing : Picture this : Flash interview with Calvin Mills ; Vignette : If you hand me the right map ; Stare: educate the eye ; Image as epiphany ; The stereoscopic image ; Not just scenery ; Conclusion : Moving images -- Voice, character, and narrator : Flash interview with Sarah Evans ; Vignette : Stephanie's stamp collection ; Overview ; Hearing voices ; Dialogue basics ; Point of view ; Authentic dialog ; Dialogue format ; Conventional versus unconventional format ; Multidimensional dialogue ; The psychological gesture ; The show/tell ratio ; Recognizing clichés and stereotypes ; Conclusion : What are your characters made of? -- Moving through time and space : Flash interview with Karen E. Bender ; Vignette : Tonight at the Santee Drive-in Theatre ; The narrative dilemma ; Self-contained worlds ; The flexibility of time: a few illustrations ; The space-time continuum ; Endless possibilities ; Conclusion : Sneak in, slip out -- The microcosmic sentence : Flash interview with Justin Torre ; Vignette : Beginning and ending with a dot ; What is a sentence? ; What is a structure? ; What is syntax? ; What is style? ; Making short sentences ; Making long sentences ; Making fragments ; Conclusion : Making the sentence your own -- How to leap: ah-ha moments and associative logic : Flash interview with Bryan Fry ; Vignette : West Coast girl goes South ; And suddenly, I knew ... ; Context, text, and subtext ; Once upon a time ; The involuntary imagination ; The hidden parts of a story ; Entrances ; Exits ; Gestalt theory for flash ; Figurative language in a flash ; Conclusion : Follow the path -- Translucent design : Flash interview with Ada Limón ; Vignette : The jackalope ; Charming snakes and snake charming ; The rule of threes ; Integrating sound patterns ; Integrating nonsound patterns ; Conclusion : Black bear against night sky -- Beg, borrow, and steal : Flash interview with Steve Coughlin ; Vignette : Terra incognita ; Be a hermit crab ; Forms to borrow, steal, and make your own ; Conclusion : Extreme restriction and a note of caution -- Finding the funny : Flash interview with Matthew Clarke ; Vignette : Dead frogs and rooftop dolphins ; The soul of wit ; Your funny bone ; Where to start? ; Comic treatments ; "What if"/"yes and" ; Timing, context, structure ; The short form as trickster ; Surprise, surprise ; Conclusion ; Where jokes come from -- Misfit pleasures : Flash interview with Alex Carr Johnson ; Vignette : Talk to me (a Wunderkammer) ; A taxonomy of the strange ; Useful distortion ; Fragmentation and atomization ; Conclustion : The art of miniaturization -- Not so fast!: Strategic revision : A flash conversation on revision ; Gaming the draft ; Building and shaping ; Begin with "what if?" ; Make friends with your doubts ; [Exercises] : Seeing the waterfall ; Fact-check yourself ; Get your hands dirty ; The layers of revision ; Breaking and unbreaking lines of text ; Exploding the text ; Shaving with Occam's razor -- Conclusion : The beautiful lightning --

  Contents:

  Part III. Short-form creative writing anthology : Cookie Monster on the dole / Henry Alford -- All this / Joanne Avallon -- A story possibly heard in some bar at three in the morning / Pía Barros -- Be drunken / Charles Baudelaire -- My grading scale for the fall semester, composed entirely of Samuel Beckett quotes / Matt Bell -- The man who hated us and then forgot / Karen E. Bender -- One long sentence / Sven Birkerts -- Thin cities 5 / Italo Calvino -- Grip / Joy Castro -- The cat / Matthew Clarke and Coco Harrison-Clarke -- Rules of combat / Katie Cartese -- Boy at night / Steve Coughlin -- Letter to a funeral parlor / Lydia Davis -- For my sister in the river / Danielle Cadena Deulen -- Self- portrait as a chimera / Natalie Diaz -- My devils / Brian Doyle -- The prose poem as a beautiful animal / Russell Edson -- Dust / Sarah Evans -- Time travel / Grant Faulkner -- Instruction, final: to brown poets from black girl with silver Leica / Nikky Finney -- A thousand perfect strangers / Kathy Fish -- Dinner party / Sherrie Flick -- Poland / Thaisa Frank -- Hill Street blues / Bryan Fry -- Dumped: seven cautionary tales / Molly Giles -- What you are / Katelyn Hemmeke -- Memoir / Amy Hempel -- A modern fable / David Ignatow -- 8 meetings nobody scheduled / Alex Carr Johnson -- Natalia / Ilya Kaminsky -- La jungla / Nancy Jooyoun Kim -- The letter from home / Jamaica Kincaid -- The quiet machine / Ada Limón -- Some things about that day / Debra Maquart -- Surplus history / Semezdin Mehmedinović -- the invisible girl can be anything she wants when she doesn't want to be invisible / Shivani Mehta -- The girl who likes dogs / Calvin Mills -- The dinosaur / Augusto Monterroso -- Gravity, reduced / Kara Oakleaf -- On miniatures / Lia Purpura -- Pleasant, healthy-appearing adult white female in no acute distress / Jennifer Richter -- Dinosaur / Bruce Holland Rogers -- Short lecture on your own happiness / Mary Ruefle -- Life story / David Shields -- go-go tarot / Evie Shockley -- Cannibals and explorers / Ana María Shua -- An all-purpose product / Patricia Smith -- Consequence / Ira Sukrungruang -- In praise of Latin night at the queer club / Justin Torres -- Icelandic hurricane / Tomas Tranströmer -- The box / Thomas Tsalapatis -- The inventory from a year lived sleeping with bullets / Brian Turner -- Immigrant haibun / Ocean Vuong -- Scheherazade / Lucy Wainger -- Small meditations / Michael Wasson -- A letter to Deb Clow / Terry Tempest Williams -- Excerpt from "Four about death" / David Young.

  Summary:

  "Short-Form Creative Writing: A Writers' Guide and Anthology is a complete introduction to the art and craft of writing in a variety of short forms. The authors 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 glossary of key terms, the book covers: - Prose poetry - Flash and micro fiction - The lyric essay - Short shorts - Micro memoir - Cross-genre/hybrid writing - Nano fiction - Sudden fiction - Drabble - Vignette - Postcard poems/fiction 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, Elizabeth Bishop, Jorges Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, Trevor Dodge, Grant Faulkner, Robert Hass, Ilya Kaminsky, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Philip Levine, Anne Sexton and many others"-- Provided by publisher.

  Subject term:

  Creative writing.

  Subject term:

  Short story.

  Added author:

  Lenox, Stephanie author.

  Series:

  Bloomsbury writers' guides and anthologies.

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ISBN:

9781350019898

ISBN:

1350019895

ISBN:

9781350019881

ISBN:

1350019887

ISBN:

(ISBN invalid)9781350019911

ISBN:

(ISBN invalid)9781350019904

Personal Author:

Hummel, H. K. (Heather K.), author.

Title:

Short-form creative writing : a writer's guide and anthology / by H.K. Hummel and Stephanie Lenox.

Publication info:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.

Copyright notice:

©2019

Physical descrip:

xxiii, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Bibliography note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Part I. An introduction to short-form creative writing : A long history of the short form : Flash interview with Pía Barros ; Vignette : Urgency and the short form ; In the beginning ; A note on genre ; What is short-form writing? ; Two worlds collide ; Dissecting the dinosaur ; Conclusion : Stealing strategies -- Part II. The craft of short-form creative writing : Picture this : Flash interview with Calvin Mills ; Vignette : If you hand me the right map ; Stare: educate the eye ; Image as epiphany ; The stereoscopic image ; Not just scenery ; Conclusion : Moving images -- Voice, character, and narrator : Flash interview with Sarah Evans ; Vignette : Stephanie's stamp collection ; Overview ; Hearing voices ; Dialogue basics ; Point of view ; Authentic dialog ; Dialogue format ; Conventional versus unconventional format ; Multidimensional dialogue ; The psychological gesture ; The show/tell ratio ; Recognizing clichés and stereotypes ; Conclusion : What are your characters made of? -- Moving through time and space : Flash interview with Karen E. Bender ; Vignette : Tonight at the Santee Drive-in Theatre ; The narrative dilemma ; Self-contained worlds ; The flexibility of time: a few illustrations ; The space-time continuum ; Endless possibilities ; Conclusion : Sneak in, slip out -- The microcosmic sentence : Flash interview with Justin Torre ; Vignette : Beginning and ending with a dot ; What is a sentence? ; What is a structure? ; What is syntax? ; What is style? ; Making short sentences ; Making long sentences ; Making fragments ; Conclusion : Making the sentence your own -- How to leap: ah-ha moments and associative logic : Flash interview with Bryan Fry ; Vignette : West Coast girl goes South ; And suddenly, I knew ... ; Context, text, and subtext ; Once upon a time ; The involuntary imagination ; The hidden parts of a story ; Entrances ; Exits ; Gestalt theory for flash ; Figurative language in a flash ; Conclusion : Follow the path -- Translucent design : Flash interview with Ada Limón ; Vignette : The jackalope ; Charming snakes and snake charming ; The rule of threes ; Integrating sound patterns ; Integrating nonsound patterns ; Conclusion : Black bear against night sky -- Beg, borrow, and steal : Flash interview with Steve Coughlin ; Vignette : Terra incognita ; Be a hermit crab ; Forms to borrow, steal, and make your own ; Conclusion : Extreme restriction and a note of caution -- Finding the funny : Flash interview with Matthew Clarke ; Vignette : Dead frogs and rooftop dolphins ; The soul of wit ; Your funny bone ; Where to start? ; Comic treatments ; "What if"/"yes and" ; Timing, context, structure ; The short form as trickster ; Surprise, surprise ; Conclusion ; Where jokes come from -- Misfit pleasures : Flash interview with Alex Carr Johnson ; Vignette : Talk to me (a Wunderkammer) ; A taxonomy of the strange ; Useful distortion ; Fragmentation and atomization ; Conclustion : The art of miniaturization -- Not so fast!: Strategic revision : A flash conversation on revision ; Gaming the draft ; Building and shaping ; Begin with "what if?" ; Make friends with your doubts ; [Exercises] : Seeing the waterfall ; Fact-check yourself ; Get your hands dirty ; The layers of revision ; Breaking and unbreaking lines of text ; Exploding the text ; Shaving with Occam's razor -- Conclusion : The beautiful lightning --

Contents:

Part III. Short-form creative writing anthology : Cookie Monster on the dole / Henry Alford -- All this / Joanne Avallon -- A story possibly heard in some bar at three in the morning / Pía Barros -- Be drunken / Charles Baudelaire -- My grading scale for the fall semester, composed entirely of Samuel Beckett quotes / Matt Bell -- The man who hated us and then forgot / Karen E. Bender -- One long sentence / Sven Birkerts -- Thin cities 5 / Italo Calvino -- Grip / Joy Castro -- The cat / Matthew Clarke and Coco Harrison-Clarke -- Rules of combat / Katie Cartese -- Boy at night / Steve Coughlin -- Letter to a funeral parlor / Lydia Davis -- For my sister in the river / Danielle Cadena Deulen -- Self- portrait as a chimera / Natalie Diaz -- My devils / Brian Doyle -- The prose poem as a beautiful animal / Russell Edson -- Dust / Sarah Evans -- Time travel / Grant Faulkner -- Instruction, final: to brown poets from black girl with silver Leica / Nikky Finney -- A thousand perfect strangers / Kathy Fish -- Dinner party / Sherrie Flick -- Poland / Thaisa Frank -- Hill Street blues / Bryan Fry -- Dumped: seven cautionary tales / Molly Giles -- What you are / Katelyn Hemmeke -- Memoir / Amy Hempel -- A modern fable / David Ignatow -- 8 meetings nobody scheduled / Alex Carr Johnson -- Natalia / Ilya Kaminsky -- La jungla / Nancy Jooyoun Kim -- The letter from home / Jamaica Kincaid -- The quiet machine / Ada Limón -- Some things about that day / Debra Maquart -- Surplus history / Semezdin Mehmedinović -- the invisible girl can be anything she wants when she doesn't want to be invisible / Shivani Mehta -- The girl who likes dogs / Calvin Mills -- The dinosaur / Augusto Monterroso -- Gravity, reduced / Kara Oakleaf -- On miniatures / Lia Purpura -- Pleasant, healthy-appearing adult white female in no acute distress / Jennifer Richter -- Dinosaur / Bruce Holland Rogers -- Short lecture on your own happiness / Mary Ruefle -- Life story / David Shields -- go-go tarot / Evie Shockley -- Cannibals and explorers / Ana María Shua -- An all-purpose product / Patricia Smith -- Consequence / Ira Sukrungruang -- In praise of Latin night at the queer club / Justin Torres -- Icelandic hurricane / Tomas Tranströmer -- The box / Thomas Tsalapatis -- The inventory from a year lived sleeping with bullets / Brian Turner -- Immigrant haibun / Ocean Vuong -- Scheherazade / Lucy Wainger -- Small meditations / Michael Wasson -- A letter to Deb Clow / Terry Tempest Williams -- Excerpt from "Four about death" / David Young.

Summary:

"Short-Form Creative Writing: A Writers' Guide and Anthology is a complete introduction to the art and craft of writing in a variety of short forms. The authors 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 glossary of key terms, the book covers: - Prose poetry - Flash and micro fiction - The lyric essay - Short shorts - Micro memoir - Cross-genre/hybrid writing - Nano fiction - Sudden fiction - Drabble - Vignette - Postcard poems/fiction 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, Elizabeth Bishop, Jorges Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, Trevor Dodge, Grant Faulkner, Robert Hass, Ilya Kaminsky, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Philip Levine, Anne Sexton and many others"-- Provided by publisher.

Subject term:

Creative writing.

Subject term:

Short story.

Added author:

Lenox, Stephanie author.

Series:

Bloomsbury writers' guides and anthologies.