Creative writing and creative writing guides

The chapters in this collection explore the constellation of points where stories of individual experience and experiences are in dialogue with political, cultural and social narratives.

The chapters in this collection explore the constellation of points where stories of individual experience and experiences are in dialogue with political, cultural and social narratives.

Despite the contemporary trend of focusing on personal experience in art and writing, there is very little critical analysis of the concept of experience within fine art.

Despite the contemporary trend of focusing on personal experience in art and writing, there is very little critical analysis of the concept of experience within fine art.

Use writing to deepen your connection with the Universe.

The alleged death of utopian fiction and its eclipsing by dystopia is, Rowan Fortune, cogently argues, grossly exaggerated.

You've written a book, triumphantly typed 'The End', but now, it seems, no-one wants to publish it.

Storying Relationships explores the sexual lives of young British Muslims in their own words and through their own stories.

Storying Relationships explores the sexual lives of young British Muslims in their own words and through their own stories.

Susie Salmon is just like any other young American girl.

Camus' sparse parable about the human condition is one of the great stories of the 20th Century, here adapted for the stage by Booker prize winner Ben Okri.

16 year old Louisa wakes up on lock down surrounded by debris from last night's blow out.

'I'm whispering into your ear - and we couldn't be further apart.

'Like a child, a weapon won t be satisfied until it dominates your every thought.

Not A Game For Girls explores the most successful of the women's football teams established to boost wartime morale, following the suspension of all Football League matches at the end of the 1914-15 season.

The first collection of its kind, The Oberon Book of Queer Monologues chronicles over one hundred years of queer and trans performance.

Wickedly funny, insightful, often absurd but always true, Clinging to the Iceberg explores the inner workings of the business of writing for hire.

An absurdist dark comedy on friendship and isolation from up-and-coming American playwright Jean Ann Douglass.

It's 1992.

'The foreign devils will be entranced by our performance and line our path back to Shandong with gold and cherry blossoms '1917.

Peggy Ramsay (1908-1991) was the foremost play agent of her time.

A completely fresh insight into the mind of one of the UK's greatest playwrights, the letters between John Osborne and his first wife, actress Pamela Lane, are also a love letter to a now defunct system of repertory theatre, and life in post-war Britain.

This book demystifies the writing process, empowering you to write your own novel or short story.

Poetry is increasingly used in therapy, and it already occupies a central place in expressive arts therapies.

Anthony Peake re-assesses the plays and novels of J.

Discover Nature’s algorithm of Intelligence to learn problem-solving from intuition to artificial intelligence.

There's more to writing a successful fantasy story than building a unique world or inventing a new type of magic.

Writing Without a Parachute: The Art of Freefall shows both beginning and experienced writers how to get the thinking mind to step aside, so that writing becomes truly creative - a vulnerable and open-hearted engagement with the moment.

Barbara Turner-Vesselago's first book, Writing Without a Parachute, showed writers how to fall in love with writing.

Begin or refine your journey to master Spanish-language literature with this revised and expanded edition of Guia basica de la critica literaria y el trabajo de investigacion.

There is no use in rage.

'I ll tell you what gets me riled up, what gets me dark and dirty, what Speaks to the Spiders living in my Soul and makeS me loSe my Shit'Are you Angry?

How To Be A Writer is a collection of interviews with famous writers, performers and industry insiders that takes the reader through a writer s day, from getting up to giving in.

1988: at four-years-old, he short-circuited his home with a silver spoon and a Betamax video player.

Sir Hector Benbow invites Cherry, a pretty shop assistant, to dine.

A practical, accessible and thorough guide to identifying and using rhetorical devices in drama, using examples from both classical and contemporary plays.

Four new short plays inspired by the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta by internationally renowned playwrights Howard Brenton, Anders Lustgarten, Timberlake Wertenbaker and Sally Woodcock.

A volume of four new plays as part of the RSC s Midsummer Mischief by Alice Birch, E.

How To Write Everything is the ultimate writer's handbook.

Roland Schimmelpfennig is the most performed contemporary German playwright.

The Official Biography by Peter Rankin My only gift is to grow a show, said Joan Littlewood, annoyed by what she had not achieved.

Dennis Kelly is one of the UK's finest contemporary dramatists.

BigmoutHHe who picks his words well can turn the weakest argument into the strongest.

Landscape with SkiproadsOn stage, a collection of objects that have played a unique role in our history.

'Wherever Tango leads, you must follow.

Tiny Dynamite: An impossible love story is given a second chance and three scorched characters are about to learn that lightning does strike twice.

'Today, we colored men and women, everywhere - are up against it.