And the examples and quotations throughout the book feature a wide and diverse range of today’s best and best-known creators of both novels and short stories. It includes new topics and writing prompts, and each chapter now ends with a list of recommended readings that exemplify the craft elements discussed, allowing for further study. Moving from freewriting to final revision, the book addresses “showing not telling,” characterization, dialogue, atmosphere, plot, imagery, and point of view. Burroway’s tone is personal and nonprescriptive, welcoming learning writers into the community of practiced storytellers. This new edition continues to provide advice that is practical, comprehensive, and flexible. Now in its tenth edition, Writing Fiction is more accessible than ever for writers of all levels-inside or outside the classroom. Janet Burroway’s best-selling classic is the most widely used creative writing text in America, and for more than three decades it has helped hundreds of thousands of students learn the craft. All Rights Reserved.A creative writer’s shelf should hold at least three essential books: a dictionary, a style guide, and Writing Fiction. New York, NY Representation: Samara Harris

Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press. Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft 10th edition.Ģ019. NEW IN APRIL (available from all outlets) in hardback, paperback and ebook: Most recent readings of plays were with the Pulse Ensemble Company in New York ( Headshots) and the Fall Festival of Women Playwrights with the Artemesia Company in Chicago ( Parts of Speech), most recent publication a biographical essay of Alix Strachey in the anthology of prominent women, Breaking Bounds. She continues to pursue her association as a Network Playwright with Chicago Dramatists and on the Board of Sideshow Theatre Company as well as with the PerSisters writing group in Chicago. Now she is back at work on the novel Indian Dancer. Her play Parts of Speech won the Brink! award at the Renaissance Theatreworks, Milwaukee in 2015 and Boomerang, a modern female Lear was commissioned by Sideshow Theatre Company, Chicago, also in 2015.Ĭurrent work: This year has seen the revision of Writing Fiction 10th Edition for the University of Chicago Press for publication April 2019 and a series of lectures both live and on video for the Remnin University Press in Beijing. Her most recent novel is Bridge of Sand (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009 Hopcyn Press, London, 2013) and her memoir Losing Tim was published in 2014 (Think Piece Publishers). Her Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft (tenth edition), is the most widely used creative writing text in America, and her multi-genre Imaginative Writing is out in a fourth edition.

Contact the Burroway, awarded the Florida Humanities Council's 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award in Writing, is the author of eight novels as well as short fiction, plays, poetry, essays, texts for dance, and children's books.

A guide to narrative craft