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Creative Writing

Library Books of Interest

 

  1.  Fourteen on Form: Conversations with Poets, William Baer - available as an e-book
  2.  On Writing Short Stories, Tom Bailey, ed.- Richmond Campus PN 3373 O52 2000. You can place Hold on any titles
  3.  Planet on the Table: Poets on the Reading Life, Sharon Bryan and William Olsen - Surrey PN 1064 P53 2003
  4.  The Native Creative Process, Douglas Cardinal - Surrey E 98 A7 C37 1991
  5.  Ron Carlson Writes a Story, Ron Carlson - Surrey, PS 3553 A733 G68 2007
  6.  Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics, TC Colbert and Trace   Peterson, eds. PS 508 T73 T76 2013
  7.  After Canaan : Essays on Race, Writing, and Region, Wayde Compton - online and Surrey HM 1271 C6523 2010
  8.  Poetry in Theory: An Anthology, 1900-2000, Jon Cook - in Surrey PN 1271 P65 2004
  9. The Art of Description: World into Word, Mark Doty - Surrey PE 1427 D68 2010
  10.  Read, Listen, Tell: Indigenous Stories from Turtle Island (includes theoretical essays), Dawn Dumont, ed. - E-book
  11.  After New Formalism: Poets on Form, Narrative, and Tradition, Annie Finch - Surrey PS 325 A28 1999
  12. Critical Theory and Science Fiction, Carl Freedman - E-book and in Surrey PN 3433.5 F74 2000
  13. Twentieth-Century American Poetics: Poets on the Art of Poetry, Dana Gioia - in Richmond PS 323.5 T87 2004
  14. The Essential Gesture: Writing, Politics, and Places, Nadine Gordimer - Surrey PR 9897.6 G67 Z467 1988
  15. Writing and Being, Nadine Gordimer - title on order
  16. Speculations on Speculation : Theories of Science Fiction, edited by James Gunn, Matthew Candelaria - Surrey PN 3433.5 S64 2005
  17. Social Formalism: The Novel in Theory from Henry James to the Present, Dorothy Hale - Surrey PN 3365 H33 1998
  18. The Language of Inquiry, Lyn Hejinian (poetics) - E-books and print in Surrey PS 3558 E473 L36 2000
  19. Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry: Essays, Jane Hirschfield - Surrey PN 1042 H49 1998
  20. The Truth about Stories: A Native Narrative, Thomas King - Surrey, Langley, Richmond PS 8571 I542 T78 2003
  21. The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction, Ursula K. Le Guin - Richmond, Surrey PN 3435 L4
  22. Measures of Astonishment: Poets on Poetry, League of Canadian Poets - Surrey PN 1031 M43 2016
  23. Rhetorics of Fantasy, Farah Mendlesohn - E-book and Surrey PS 374 F27 M46 2008
  24. My Conversations With Canadians, Lee Maracle - E-book and print in Surrey PS 8576 A6175 A6 2017
  25. I Am Woman: A Native Perspective on Sociology and Feminism, Lee Maracle - In R and S HDB BFX M37 1996 (Indigenous Collection)
  26. The Art of the Short Story: Stories and Authors in Historical Context, Wendy Martin - Surrey PN 6120.2 A735 2006
  27. "I Am Your Brother": Short Story Studies, Charles E. May - Surrey PN 3373 M39 2013
  28. New Short Story Theories, Charles E. May - Surrey PN 3373 N44 1994
  29.  Short Story Theories, Charles E. May - Surrey PN 3373 S39
  30.  Indigenous Poetics in Canada, Neal McLeod, ed.- E-book and Surrey PS 8147 I6 I53 2014
  31. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination, Toni Morrison 
    PS 173 B53 M67 1992
  32. Theory into Poetry: New Approaches to the Lyric, Eva Müller-Zettelmann 
  33. A Sense of Regard: Essays on Poetry and Race, ed. By Laura McCullough - E-book
  34.  Literary Theory and Poetry: Extending the Canon, David Murray - Surrey PN 1126 L57 1989
  35.  Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose, Flannery O'Connor - E-book
  36.  The Lonely Voice: A Study on the Short Story, Frank O'Connor - Surrey PN 3373 O36 2004
  37. Short Story Theories: A Twenty-first Century Perspective, Viorica Patea - E-book and print in Surrey PN 3373 S56 2012
  38.  Radical Artifice: Writing Poetry in the Age of Media, Marjorie Perloff - Surrey PS 325 P38 1991
  39. The Art of Daring: Risk, Restlessness, Imagination, Carl Phillips -Richmond, Surrey  PS 3566 H476 A78 2014
  40. Women Writers at Work, George Plimpton, ed.- Surrey PN 471 W56 1998
  41. The Art of Attention: A Poet's Eye, Donald Revell - Surrey PN 1064 R48 2007
  42. Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures Mary Ruefle (poetics) - Surrey PN 1136 R74 2012
  43. Windows and Doors: A Poet Reads Literary Theory, Natasha Sajé
  44. Line Break: Poetry as Social Practice, James Scully - Surrey PN 1081 S29 2005
  45. Dancing on Our Turtle's Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-creation, Resurgence and a New Emergence, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson - E-book and in print in Surrey PB CCH S56 2011
  46. Bending Genre: Essays on Creative Nonfiction, Margot Singer, ed. - Surrey PN 145 B46 2013
  47. After Confession: Poetry as Autobiography, Kate Sontag and David Graham, eds. (on order)

There are many other relevant books in the library that might be of help to you. You might also choose to get books from the UBC or SFU libraries (which you can do through inter-library loan) or other libraries.