Creative Writing Books

New and Published Books

1. Digital Storytelling

   Capturing Lives, Creating Community

   By Joe Lambert

   Listen deeply. Tell stories. This is the mantra of the Center for Digital Storytelling (CDS) in Berkeley California, which, since 1998 has worked with nearly 1,000 organizations around the world and trained more than 15,000 people in the art of digital storytelling. In this revised...

   Published December 6th 2012 by Routledge
2. Writing Research Critically

   Developing the power to make a difference

   By John Schostak, Jill Schostak

   This is not a standard guide to writing a dissertation, thesis, project report, journal article or book. Rather, this book will help researchers who are dissatisfied with the typical recipe approaches to standardised forms of writing-up and want to explore how academic writing can be used to...

   Published November 25th 2012 by Routledge
3. How Architects Write

   By Tom Spector, Rebecca Damron

   This is the first writing reference book for designers. Whether you're an architect, landscape architect, interior designers, or an industrial designer How Architects Write shows you the interdependence of writing and design. Authors Tom Spector and Rebecca Damron present typical writing...

   Published August 8th 2012 by Routledge
4. The Screenwriter Activist

   Writing Social Issue Movies

   By Marilyn Beker

   Hotel Rwanda. Philadelphia. Silkwood. Some of the most important films ever made have tackled real-world social issues, from genocide to homophobia to corporate greed. As storytellers, activist screenwriters recognize that social issues make great stories that can be gut-wrenching,...

   Published July 2nd 2012 by Routledge
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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