Short-Form Creative Writing Paperback – 18 October 2021

H. K. Hummel . Bloomsbury Academic India . English

Short-Form Creative Writing: A Writer's Guide and Anthology is a complete introduction to the art and craft of extremely compressed works of imaginative literature. H. K. Hummel and Stephanie Lenox 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 illustrated key concepts, the book covers: - Prose poetry - Flash fiction - Micro memoir - Lyric essay - Cross-genre/hybrid writing . . . and much more. 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, Italo Calvino, Lydia Davis, Grant Faulkner, Ilya Kaminsky, Jamaica Kinkaid , and many others.

Categories: Short Stories (Fiction)

About the Author

Stephanie Lenox is the co-author of Short-Form Creative Writing: A Writer's Guide and Anthology with H.K. Hummel. Her most recent poetry collection, The Business, was selected as the winner of the 2015 Colorado Prize in Poetry. She is the author of Congress of Strange People, and a chapbook, The Heart That Lies Outside the Body, winner of the Slapering Hol Chapbook Competition. She lives in Salem, Oregon, and works as an editor at Chemeketa Press. For more, please visit www.stephanielenox.com.

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