A to Z of creative writing methods /
Deborah Wardle, Julienne van Loon, Stayci Taylor, Francesca Rendle-Short.--Peta Murray, and David Carlin.
- New York : Vintage Books, c2019.
- vii, 244 pages ; 21 cm.
Introduction / Deborah Wardle, Julienne van Loon, Stayci Taylor, Francesca Rendle-Short, Peta Murray, David Carlin.--Archival-poetics / Natalie Harkin.--Aswang / Allan N. Derain.--Atmospherics / Kathleen Stewart.--Braiding / Catherine McKinnon.--Bricolage / Dominique Hecq.--Bung wantaim / Steven Winduo.--Camping / Soile Veijola.--Character / Lina Maria Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas.--Chorality / Martina Copley.--Code / Benjamin Laird Collaboration / Quinn Eades.--Collecting / Ander Monson.--Communitas / Francesca Rendle-Short Dialogue / Cath Moore.--Drawing / Sarah Leavitt.--Ekphrasls / Sarah Holland-Batt Ensemble / Shuchl Kothari.--Erasure / Nhã Thuyên.--Experience / Kári Gíslason.--Experimentation / Collier Nogues.--Facilitator / Ali Cobby Eckermann.--Fade out / Stayci Taylor.--Feelings / Erlk Knudsen.--Flow / Mary Cappello Ghost weaving / Paola Balla.--Hybrid / Marion May Campbell Imagination / Paula Morris.--Iterative thinking / Ames Hawkins.--Juxtaposition / Wendy S. Walters Keepsake / Fiona Murphy.--Listening / Marjorie Evasco Listing / David Carlin.--Memory work / Maria Tumarkin Metaphor me / Selina Tusitala Marsh.--Nonhuman imaginaries / Deborah Wardle Not-knowing / Julienne van Loon.--Notebooking / Safdar Ahmed Observation / Stephen Carleton.--Paragraphing / Delia Falconer Permission / Tina Makereti.--Phototextuality / Karen L. Carr Play / Nicole Walker.--Preposition / Martin Villanueva Procrastination / Aritha van Herk.--Queering / Marion May Campbell, Lawrence Lacambra Ypil, Francesca Rendle-Short, Deborah Wardle, Ames Hawkins, Quinn Eades, Stayci Taylor, Peta Murray, Natalie Harkin, Antonia Pont, and Anonymous.--Radical effrontery / Jeanine Leane Reading / Belinda Castles.--Resistance / James Byrne Rites / Manola-Gayatri Kumarswamy.--Sensing / CM Burroughs Speculation / Robin Hemley.--Taxonomy / Lavanya Shanbhogue Arvind Translation / Runar Helgi Vignisson.--Uncertainty / Lawrence Lacambra Ypil Vocabulary / Peta Murray.--Writing-foreign-language / Fan Dai Xenos / Nike Sulway.--Yoga / Antonia Pont.--Zim / Alvin Pang.
"The collection of essays is an invitation to write by engaging with a syncretic collection of tropes and methods ranging from the use of archives and folklore as launch pads to writing activities to the process of queering texts. It also promotes the unmooring of writing from defined spaces by using concepts such as erasure, nonhuman imaginaries, uncertainty, unknowing and many more. These are exciting approaches to writing, proving that the literary creative process has always been multifaceted and inclusive. The book is a nudge to every person who wants to write creatively.'