Full Description
A complete introduction to the art and craft of extremely compressed works of imaginative literature, this book, now in its second edition, introduces both traditional and innovative approaches to the short form and demonstrates 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. With new additions such as a chapter on inspiration and expansions that now cover such concepts as shape, humour, time, revision and publishing, H. K. Hummel and Stephanie Lenox have produced the ultimate companion to writing short fiction.
Featuring an extensive and wide-ranging anthology that offers inspiring examples of short-form writing in all of the styles covered by the book, it now includes micro dramas and flash comics alongside work from writers across the globe such as by Charles Baudelaire, Grant Faulkner, Jamaica Kinkaid Kay Ulanday Barrett, Kevin Brockmeier, D. E. Hardy, Jose Hernandez, Diaz, Mihee Kim, Suzan-Lori Parks, Alyssa Quinn, and Claudia Rankine.
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface for the Second Edition
Part I: an Introduction to Short-form Creative Writing
Chapter 1: Revolutionary Short Forms
Chapter 2: Inspiration and Innovation
Part II: the Craft of Short-form Creative Writing
Chapter 3: Making Sense
Chapter 4: Deep Conversations
Chapter 5: Moving Through Time and Space
Chapter 6: Microcosmic Design
Chapter 7: How to Leap: Aha Moments and Symbolic Logic
Chapter 8: Finding Your Funny
Chapter 9: Misfit Pleasures
Part III: Strategies for Short-form Creative Writing
Chapter 10: Beg, Borrow, and Steal
Chapter 11: Not So Fast! Strategic Revision
Chapter 12: What's Next?
Part IV: Short-form Anthology
Appendix A: Student Work
Appendix B: Genre Index
End Notes
Contributor Bios
Bibliography
Index
