Short-Form Creative Writing

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.