Creative Writing Books

New and Published Books

1. Monsters Under the Bed

   Critically investigating early years writing

   By Andrew Melrose

   Monsters Under the Bed is an essential text focussing on critical and contemporary issues surrounding writing for ‘early years’ children. Containing a critically creative and a creatively critical investigation of the cult and culture of the child and childhood in fiction and non-fictional writing,...

   Published January 18th 2012 by Routledge
2. New Playwriting Strategies

   Language and Media in the 21st Century, 2nd Edition

   By Paul Castagno

   New Playwriting Strategies has become a canonical text in the study and teaching of playwriting, offering a fresh and dynamic insight into the subject. This thoroughly revised and expanded second edition explores and highlights the wide spread of new techniques that form contemporary theatre...

   Published December 15th 2011 by Routledge
3. Here Comes the Bogeyman

   Exploring contemporary issues in writing for children

   By Andrew Melrose

   Here Comes the Bogeyman is an essential text focussing on critical and contemporary issues surrounding writing for children. Containing a critically creative and a creatively critical investigation of the cult and culture of the child and childhood in fiction and non-fictional writing, it also...

   Published November 20th 2011 by Routledge
4. Travel Writing

   By Carl Thompson

   Series: The New Critical Idiom

   An increasingly popular genre – addressing issues of empire, colonialism, post-colonialism, globalization, gender and politics – travel writing offers the reader a movement between the familiar and the unknown. In this volume, Carl Thompson: introduces the genre, outlining competing...

   Published May 11th 2011 by Routledge
5. The Language and Style of Film Criticism

   Edited by Andrew Klevan, Alex Clayton

   The Language and Style of Film Criticism brings together original essays from an international range of academics and film critics highlighting the achievements, complexities and potential of film criticism. In recent years, in contrast to the theoretical, historical and cultural study of film,...

   Published April 20th 2011 by Routledge
6. Poetry: The Basics

   2nd Edition

   By Jeffrey Wainwright

   Series: The Basics

   Now in its second edition, Poetry: The Basics demystifies the traditions and forms of the world of poetry for all those who find it daunting or bewildering. Covering a wide range of poetic voices from Chaucer to children's rhymes, song lyrics and the words of contemporary poets, this book will help...

   Published February 17th 2011 by Routledge
7. Poetry and Autobiography

   Edited by Jo Gill, Melanie Waters

   This collection makes a critical and creative intervention into ongoing debates about the relationship between poetry and autobiography. Drawing on recent theories of life writing, the essays in the first part of this volume provide new analyses of works by a range of poets, dating from the early...

   Published February 13th 2011 by Routledge
8. Grammar: A Pocket Guide

   By Susan J. Behrens

   If you've ever wanted a quick and easy guide to verbs and adverbs, commas and apostrophes, clauses and prepositions, then this is a must-have book for you. Easing readers gently into the study of the structure of English, Grammar: A Pocket Guide covers common questions such as: Is it "10 items or...

   Published September 6th 2010 by Routledge
9. Writing Poetry

   By W. N. Herbert

   This volume presents new versions of key chapters from the recent Routledge/Open University textbook, Creative Writing: A Workbook with Readings for writers who are specialising in writing poetry. It offers the novice writer engaging and creative activities, making use of insightful, relevant...

   Published November 24th 2009 by Routledge
10. Traditions of Writing Research

    Edited by CHARLES BAZERMAN, Robert Krut, KAREN LUNSFORD, Susan McLeod, Suzie Null, Paul Rogers, Amanda Stansell

    Traditions of Writing Research reflects the different styles of work offered at the Writing Research Across Borders conference. Organized by Charles Bazerman, one of the pre-eminent scholars in writing studies, the conference facilitated an unprecedented gathering of writing researchers....

    Published October 5th 2009 by Routledge