![]() Elizabeth Stuckey-French was awarded a James Michener Fellowship and has won grants from the Howard Foundation, the Indiana Arts Foundation, and the Florida Arts Foundation. Writing Fiction ranges from freewriting to revision, addressing how writers must work through problems in plot, style, characterization, dialogue, atmosphere, imagery, and point of view to write exciting and fresh stories. Lawton Distinguished Professor Emerita of the Florida State University, Janet Burroway has written plays, children's books, poetry, and novels. ![]() ![]() The recipient of the Florida Humanities Council's 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing and the Robert O. The text also integrates diverse contemporary short stories in every chapter in the belief that the reading of inspiring fiction goes hand-in-hand with the writing of fresh and exciting stories. Written in a tone that is personal and non-prescriptive, the text encourages students to develop proficiency through each step of the writing process, offering an abundance of exercises designed to spur writing and creativity. Her Writing Fiction is the most widely used creative writing text in America. ![]() Novelists Janet Burroway and Elizabeth Stuckey-French guide the novice story writer from first inspiration to final revision by providing practical writing techniques and concrete examples in this widely respected and frequently used text, Writing Fiction. Janet Burroway is the author of plays, poetry, children’s books, and eight novels, including Raw Silk, The Buzzards, Opening Nights, Cutting Stone, and Bridge of Sand. ![]()
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If there is a precipice at which language, especially its lyrical form, must hover, in order for one to feel dangerously alive and subsequently on the verge of death, then Toronto poet Rishma Dunlop takes us there, seducing us with a relentless passion for the intangible beauty wrought visible in “objects” cathected with reverence and desire.Ī Round, Full Moment: Review of Rishma Dunlop’s Reading Like a Girl Reviews and Praise for Reading Like a Girl An essential book from an uncompromising voice. ![]() From the childhood book that “thumbs her open” to the post-9/11 classroom in which she must somehow bring meaning to “rows of firemen’s boots abandoned,” Dunlop’s brilliant language explores what it means to learn and teach in an increasingly violent and fractured global landscape. In Reading Like a Girl, award-winning poet Rishma Dunlop blends the autobiographical with the imagined to produce an evocative collection of 21st-century poetry. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He never expects their flirtation might tempt him into stay put once and for all.ĭanger lurks everywhere for Central Oregon’s fire crews, but the biggest risk of all might be losing their hearts. ![]() When his hot, conveniently buff, neighbor shows up on his doorstep, dog in tow, Rain’s determined to not just save the adorable puppy, but her reluctant owner as well. He dances through life, one adventure at a time, never settling in one place for too long. Rain Fisher doesn’t take anything too seriously. As they work together, trying to re-home their little princess, Garrick can’t resist his growing attraction for the other man, even though he knows this guy isn’t the staying type. Nothing, not severe injuries nor the brutal physical therapy. 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