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Writing Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
Fiction
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Top Ten Fiction-Writing Articles of 2010
Ten Rules for Writing Fiction
How to Kill your Muse: Too Much Truth in Fiction
National Novel Writing Month
Story in Literary Fiction: Essays on Craft
Thirty Tools for Writers
Common Faults in Short Stories
Short Stories: Ten Tips for Creative Writers
A short history of the short story
Short Story Writing Explained
Short Stories: Ten Beginnings to Avoid
Ten Short Story Endings to Avoid
Rethinking Short Story Endings
How to Write Like a Victorian: What can the first how-to book for fiction still tell us?
I Love Short Stories
Books on Writing Fiction
The Story Prize
All-Write Fiction Advice
"What's the Big Idea?" How to Decide what your Book is about.
Imagining Ourselves: Narrative Stance in Memoir
Redefining the Experiment [how/why can an essay be experimental?]
The Essayist's Dilemma
Brevity: A Journal of Concise Creative Nonfiction
Books on Writing Creative Nonfiction
Creative Nonfiction: In Defense of the Truth (with a Lower Case T)
Narrative Nonfiction
Narrative Nonfiction: Telling Stories that are True
Memoirville
Auto/Biography Studies Journal
Life Writing Journal
Why Some Memoirs Are Better As Fiction, by Taylor Antrim
What "Based on a True Story" Means
Biography Journal
The Heroic Lie: A Brief Inquiry into the Fake Memoir
Daniel Nester's Essay/Memoir Bibliography
Poetry Foundation
13 Ways of Looking at a Poetry Manuscript
Academy of American Poets
Fear of Narrative and the Skittery Poem of Our Moment
Where Have all the Critics Gone: A Call for Poets to Write Criticism
Contemporary Poetry Review
Best Poetry Books of 2010
Emergency Poetry Reading Series at UPenn
The Action Verb and Beautiful Accidents: •How to choose words that surprise and delight your reader
Poetic Asides Blog from Writer's Digest
Redactive Poetry Project
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Poet Laureate (United States)
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View current and past poets laureate of the United States: official title: Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.
Autobiography and Poetry
Writing for Theater & Film - Carina Jaramillo
This article contains breakdowns on understanding the importance of setting, writing for different kinds of stage productions, industry formatting for screenplays, etc.
Beginnings and Endings in Flannery O'Connor
So You Want to be a Novelist? Advice from Jennifer Weiner
Junot Diaz on Creating a Strong Voice
Kurt Vonnegut's 8 Tips on How to Write a Great Short Story
An Interview With Creative Nonfiction Writer Phillip Lopate
A Million Little Lies: Exposing James Frey's Fiction Addiction
Tom Wolfe's "The Birth of 'The New Journalism'; Eyewitness Report" (1972)
A Brief History of Memoir-Bashing (It's almost as old as the memoir itself)
Articles from Slate's "Memoir Week"
Publish, Then Flee: How to tell your family you're writing about them
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