The Creative Writing Coursebook: Forty-Five Authors Share Advice and Exercises for Fiction and Poetry

This coursebook takes aspiring authors through every stage of the writing process. Exercises and activities encourage writers to develop their skills, and contributions from forty authors provide a generous pool of information, experience, and advice. This book should be of interest to those who are just starting to write, as well as those who want some help honing work already completed. It should suit people writing for publication or just for their own pleasure, those writing on their own or in writing groups.

Julia Bell and Paul Magrs are both novelists and teachers of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.