NC Literary Craft Book

 

Fiction

  1. How To Write A Novel by Douglas Glover
  2. Deforming Form: Outlier Short Stories and How They Work by Richard Farrell
  3. The Use of Moralized Cityscape in Los Angeles Literature by Jill Glass
  4. Shades and Mirrors: Character Gradation in the Novel by Vanessa Blakeslee
  5. Techniques of Emotional Representation and the Construct of the Self in Three Short Stories by Rebecca Martin
  6. Another Way to Fill an Empty Room: The Voice of Amy Hempel’s Aesthetic by Mary Stein
  7. There’s a Theme for You (on thematic passage technique in Chekhov short stories) by Julie Marden
  8. Plot Structure in Short Stories by Gwen Mullins
  9. Mucking Up the Landscape: Poetic Tendencies in Prose by Mary Stein
  10. The Mind’s Eye – Character Thought in Fiction by Erin Stagg

 

Nonfiction

  1. Thoughts on the Meditative Essay by Robert Vivian
  2. The Essay As An Open Field by Robert Vivian
  3. Nature Writing in America by Adam Regn  Arvidson
  4. Seven Things I Learned from Reading Fifteen List Essays by John Proctor
  5. Sanders, Shklovsky, and the Role of the Personal Essayist by John Proctor
  6. Montaigne & Didion, Integrating Universal Ideas & Personal Narrative by John Proctor
  7. A Kayaker, a Fisherman, and a Scientist Walk into a Story by Adam Regn Arvidson
  8. Picking Brains and Giving Proper Credit by Adam Regn Arvidson
  9. Gimme a B, Gimme a U, Gimme a T, What’s That Spell? (Part One & Two) by Adam Regn Arvidson
  10. Wine List (on the Rhetoric of Lists in Narrative) by Adam Regn Arvidson
  11. James Agee’s Unconventional Use of Colons  by Anna Maria Johnson
  12. There’s a Reason They Call it Show AND Tell: How to Reveal Thoughts, Emotions, and Motivations Without Sentimentality by Laura-Rose Russell

 

Poetry

  1. A “Dark Star” Passes Through It by Leslie Ullman
  2. Dynamic Design: The Structure of Books of Poems by Natasha Saje
  3. Translation, Adaptation and Transformation: The Poet as Translator by Richard Jackson
  4. On the Prayerful in Poetry by William Olsen
  5. Charmed Objects: Poetry and Childhood by Nancy Eimers

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Appendix

Student stories based on Douglas Glover’s structure exercise. You can find the exercise in his book Attack of the Copula Spiders.

  1. Shame by Benjamin Woodard
  2. Gunslinger by Casper Martin
  3. Angel of Death by Casper Martin

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