Ursula K. Le Guin's essential guide to the writer's craft, now publishing in the UK for the first time. A guide for writing groups as well as solo writers, with a brand-new introduction from leading SFF writers Kelly Link, Karen Joy Fowler and Molly Gloss.

Can you save the missing elf before he is eaten by the big, bad wolf? Is the witch offering you a poisoned apple, or will she help you - by magically shrinking the giant pink rabbit that is terrorizing your castle? This book enables your family to create your own fairy tales.

A modern classic, revised and expanded: How the age-old art of storytelling can transform the way we communicate-and the way we do business

'"Good story" means something worth telling that the world wants to hear. Finding this is your lonely task... but the love of a good story, of terrific characters and a world driven by your passion, courage and creative gifts is still not enough. Your goal must be a good story well told.' Robert McKee

The narrative spell cast over politics and society

At the beginning of a new writing project - whether it's the first page of a new novel or a less ambitious project, writers often experience exhilaration, fear, or dread. For Kristjana Gunnars, the call of a new project is "like someone you don't know knocking on your door." This book is an engagement with that "stranger" called writing.

Each year writers and editors submit over three thousand grammar and style questions to the Q&A page at The Chicago Manual of Style Online. Some are arcane, some simply hilarious - and one editor, Carol Fisher Saller, reads every single one of them. All too often she notes a classic author - editor standoff, wherein both parties refuse to co...

What is it about a good book that hooks the reader and makes them want more? A good plot. How do you turn that seed of an idea into a great epic? This guide helps steer new writers through the minefield of the writing process. It explains how to create memorable characters, generate cliffhangers and keep up a pace that hooks readers.

In this specially-commissioned anthology, sixty accomplished authors share secrets and insights into their writing lives: on their inspirations, methods, wild ideas and daily routines; on the pleasure and the pain in achieving their literary goals; on how they started out and how they hope to continue.

A new edition to one of our most popular Creative Writing titles, written to help new writers find confidence, inspiration and creativity.

Featuring a collection of twelve teaching-focussed essays, this work includes an introduction to the subject of creative writing by Graeme Harper. Each chapter draws on key points about the nature of teaching and learning creative writing, and covers various genres of creative writing, including prose fiction, poetry, screen writing, and others.

An indispensable resource for anyone teaching creative writing.