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Shop nowWriting Fiction, Tenth Edition
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Learn moreA creative writerss shelf should hold at least three essential books: a dictionary, a style guide, and Writing Fiction. Janet Burroway's bestselling classic is the most widely used creative writing text in America, and for more than three decades it has helped hundreds of thousands of students learn the craft.
This new edition continues to provide advice that is practical, comprehensive, and flexible. Burroway's tone is personal and nonprescriptive, welcoming learning writers into the community of practiced storytellers. Moving from freewriting to final revision, the book addresses "showing not telling," characterization, dialogue, atmosphere, plot, imagery, and point of view. It includes new topics and writing prompts. And the examples and quotations throughout the book feature a wide and diverse range of today's best and best-known creators of both novels and short stories.
This book is a master class in creative writing that also calls on us to renew our love of storytelling and celebrate the skill of writing well. There is a very good chance that one of your favorite authors learned the craft with Writing Fiction. And who knows what future favorite will get her start listening to this edition?
Janet Burroway is the author of plays, poetry, children's books, and eight novels, including The Buzzards, Raw Silk, and Bridge of Sand. She is Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor Emerita at Florida State University. She lives in Chicago and Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.
Elizabeth Stuckey-French is the author of several novels, including the Revenge of the Radioactive Lady and Mermaids on the Moon, as well as a collection of short stories, the First Paper Girl in Red Oak, Iowa. With Janet Burroway and Ned Stuckey-French, she is a coauthor of Writing Fiction: A Guide to the Narrative Craft. Her short stories have appeared in Narrative Magazine, the Atlantic Monthly, and the O'Henry Prize Stories. She has won a James Michener Fellowship, a Florida Book Award, and grants from the Howard Foundation, the Indiana Arts Foundation, and the Florida Arts Foundation. She teaches fiction writing at Florida State University.
Ned Stuckey-French is Associate Professor of English at Florida State University. He is coauthor, with Janet Burroway and Elizabeth Stuckey-French of the eighth edition of Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft, the most widely adopted creative writing text in the U.S., and coeditor of the forthcoming Essayists on the Essay: Four Centuries of Commentary. He lives with his wife, author Elizabeth Stuckey-French, in Tallahassee, Florida.
Laural Merlington has recorded well over one hundred audiobooks, including works by Margaret Atwood and Alice Hoffman, and is the recipient of several AudioFile Earphones Awards. An Audie Award nominee, she has also directed over one hundred audiobooks. She has performed and directed for thirty years in theaters throughout the country. In addition to her extensive theater and voice-over work, Laural teaches college in her home state of Michigan.