On this page you can find a list of resources designed to help you with writing short stories – providing you with tips, advice and words from writing experts.
GENERAL WRITING INFORMATION:
Advice for Writers writing tips
The Asham Award Writers’ Resource Page
Bristol Short Story Prize resources/links
British Council Literary Projects
Contemporary Writers in the UK
Advice on short story writing from the people at the Fish Prize
The Guardian’s ‘A Brief Survey of the Short Story’
I Heart Short Stories (blog/review)
Kudos writing competitions
Riptide Magazine’s resources/links page
The Short Review: reviews of short story collections
The SHORT STORY Website
Three Types of Short Story from Comma Press
INSTRUCTIONAL WEBSITES:
Guide to Citation and Referencing from Warwick University
Harvard Referencing Guide from Anglia Ruskin University
Links to resources on writing a synopsis
Punctuation Guide from the University of Sussex
Consulting Editor Alan Rinzler with advice to writers
WRITING MENTORSHIPS:
Mentoring: A Guide for Creative Writers
WORDS FROM THE EXPERTS:
BBC Archive In their Own Words
The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers
Al Alvarez, The Writer’s Voice
Margaret Atwood on Writing: Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing
Paul Auster, The Red Notebook
Donald Barthelme, Not-Knowing
William Boyd, A Short History of the Short Story
ed. Clare Boylan, The Agony and the Ego
Raymond Carver, Principles of a Short Story
Raymond Carver, Fires
ed. Ann Charters, The Story and Its Writer
eds. Dan Crowe and Philip Oltermann, How I Write: the Secret Lives of Authors
ed. John Darnton, Writers on Writing (vols. 1 and 2)
Annie Dillard, The Writing Life
John Gardner, On Writers and Writing Beyond
Alan Garner, The Voice that Thunders
Vanessa Gebbie, Short Circuit: A Guide to the Art of the Short Story
Natalie Goldberg, Wild Mind
Ernest Hemingway, On Writing
The Art of Fiction – Hemingway– An in-depth interview from the Paris Review.
Steven King, On Writing
Hanif Kureishi, Dreaming and Scheming
Alexander Linklater, Reclaiming the Story
Alberto Manguel, A Reader on Reading
Flannery O’Connor, Mystery and Manners
Frank O’Connor, The Lonely Voice
George Orwell, Why I Write
F. David Peat, The Black-Winged Night
Francine Prose, Reading Like a Writer
Michele Roberts, Food, Sex & God: On Inspiration and Writing
Eudora Welty, On Writing
Jeanette Winterson, Art Objects
Virginia Woolf, A Writer’s Diary
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