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General: Creative Writing: A Workbook with Readings: The Open University, ed.
A-level Creative Writing Suggested Reading List
Teachers and students of A-level Creative Writing may find the following reading list useful. It is not definitive but is an evolving document. If you would like to recommend a book for the list please send your suggestion to
[email protected]. Encouraging students to read widely and read for pleasure is most important of all. The following books are secondary to that, with useful exercises and examples for teachers. General: Creative Writing: A Workbook with Readings by Linda Anderson and Derek Neale (Routledge, 2005) ISBN: 978-0415372435 The Writer’s Workbook (2nd Edition) by Edmund Cusick, Aileen La Tourette and Jenny Newman (Bloomsbury Academic, 2004) ISBN: 978-0340809655 The Creative Writing Workbook by John Singleton (Palgrave Macmillan, 2001) ISBN: 978-0333792162 The Hero with a Thousand Faces (3rd Edition) by Joseph Campbell (New World Library, 2012) ISBN: 978-1577315933 Inside Creative Writing: Interviews with Contemporary Writers edited by Graeme Harper (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) ISBN: 978-0230212176 On Writing by Stephen King (Hodder Paperbacks, 2012) ISBN: 978-1444723250 Doing Creative Writing by Steve May (Routledge, 2007) ISBN: 978-0415402392 Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing by Margaret Atwood (Virago, 2003) ISBN: 978-1844080274 Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg (Shambhala Publications, 2005) ISBN: 978-1590302613 The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing by David Morley (Cambridge University Press, 2007) ISBN: 978-0521547543 The Cambridge Companion to Creative Writing edited by David Morley and Philip Neilsen (Cambridge University Press, 2012) ISBN: 978-0521145367
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Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them by Francine Prose (Union Books, 2012) ISBN: 978-1908526076 Solutions for Writers: Practical Craft Techniques for Fiction and Non-fiction by Sol Stein (Souvenir Press, 1999) ISBN: 978-0285635258 The Handbook of Creative Writing (2nd Edition) edited by Steven Earnshaw (Edinburgh University Press, 2014) ISBN: 978-0748689392 Writing with Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process (2nd Edition) by Peter Elbow (Oxford University Press, 1998) ISBN: 978-0195120189 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style by Matt Madden (Jonathan Cape, 2006) ISBN: 978-0224079259 Prose: The Art of Writing Fiction by Andrew Cowan (Routledge, 2011) ISBN: 978-1408248348 Creative Writing: A Guide and Glossary to Fiction Writing by Colin Bulman (Polity Press, 2006) ISBN: 978-0745636887 Fiction / Non-Fiction: A Reader and Rhetoric by Garry Engkent and Lucia Engkent (Thomson Nelson, 2001) ISBN: 978-0774737142 The Arvon Book of Literary Non-fiction by Sally Cline and Midge Gillies (Bloomsbury Academic, 2012) ISBN: 978-1408131237 The Art of Creative Non-fiction: Writing and Selling the Literature of Reality by Lee Gutkind (John Wiley & Sons, 1997) ISBN: 978-0471113560 Poetry: Writing Poems by Peter Sansom (Bloodaxe Books, 1993) ISBN: 978-1852242046 Drafting and Assessing Poetry: A Guide for Teachers by Sue Dymoke (Sage Publications, 2003) ISBN: 978-0761948551 Reading Poetry: An Introduction (2nd Edition) by Tom Furniss and Michael Bath (Routledge, 2007) ISBN: 978-0582894204 Poet’s Kit by Katherine Knight and Jane Kingshill (Praxis Books, 1994) ISBN: 978-0951872956 The Forms of Poetry: A Practical Study Guide for English by Peter Abbs and John Richardson (Cambridge University Press, 1990) ISBN: 978-0521371605 On Poetry by Glyn Maxwell (Oberon Masters, 2012) ISBN: 978-1849430852 52 Ways of Looking at a Poem by Ruth Padel (Vintage, 2004) ISBN: 978-0099429159
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Script and Screenwriting: Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting by Robert McKee (HaperCollins, 1997) ISBN: 978-0060391683 Crafting Short Screenplays That Connect (3rd Edition) by Claudia H. Johnson (Focal Press, 2009) ISBN: 978-0240812144 The Creative Screenwriter: Exercises to Expand Your Craft by Zara Waldeback and Craig Batty (Bloomsbury, 2012) ISBN: 978-1408137192
Useful Websites •
NAWE website www.nawe.co.uk
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NATE website www.nate.org.uk
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NWP website
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Arvon Foundation
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English and Media Centre
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www.nwp.org.uk www.arvon.org www.englishandmedia.co.uk
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