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    Short-form creative writing : a writer's guide and anthology / by H. K. Hummel and Stephanie Lenox.
    by Hummel, H. K. (Heather K.), author., Lenox, Stephanie, author.
    London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019
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    Bloomsbury writers' guides and anthologies.
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    xxiii, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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    Part I. An introduction to short-form creative writing -- 1. A long history of the short form -- Part II. The craft of short-form creative writing -- 2. Picture this -- 3. Voice, character, and narrator -- 4. Moving through time and space -- 5. The microcosmic sentence -- 6. How to leap: ah-ha moments and associative logic -- 7. Translucent design -- 8. Beg, borrow, and steal -- 9. Finding the funny -- 10. Misfit pleasures -- 11. Not so fast! strategic revision -- Conclusion. The beautiful lightning -- 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 stranger / 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 Tsalpatis -- 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.
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    "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"--
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