Creative Writing Studio Library
General Resources
The Wonderful World of Workshop
Instructions for handing in your work for discussion; reflections on the workshop method; tips.
Leaving Kansas: A Word to My Students
Fiction Critique Form Instructor Sample
Poetry Critique Form Instructor Sample
Skunk's Elements of Style
(Classic guide to sentence style. Lots
of practical tips. Helpful info. on sentence concision and clarity.)
Banned for Life
(Amusing
and very comprehensive collection of the hackneyed and the cliché.)
About Poetry
New Media, Visual, and Concrete Poetry
(also links to book arts resources)
Why Yeats Can Make You a Better Kisser
Poetry Form and Theme Collections
Short-Short Poems (Poetry on Wheels-style)
Work by Individual Poets
About Fiction
Formula Fiction (for what not to do!)
Psychology and Suspense (again, just for discussion)
For info about fiction and form, see PPT in Bb
Works by Individual Fiction Writers
Some Questions for "Cathedral"
Tim O'Brien's "How To Tell a True War Story"
James Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues" (handout)
Alice Munro's A Bear Came Over the Mountain
Flannery O'Connor, "A Good Man is Hard to Find"
William Faulkner, "Barn Burning"
Gabriel Garcia Márquez's "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings"
Márquez's "The Handsomest Drowned Man In The World"
Márquez's "Eva is Inside Her Cat"
Márquez's "Eyes of a Blue Dog"
Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities
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