Creative Writing: Four Genres in Brief

Creative Writing: Four Genres in Brief by Starkey, David. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780312468668.

How can students with widely varied levels of literary experience learn to write poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and drama ? over the course of only one semester? In Creative Writing: Four Genres in Brief, David Starkey offers some solutions to the challenges of teaching the introductory creative writing course: (1) concise, accessible instruction in literary basics; (2) short models of literature to analyze, admire and emulate; (3) inventive and imaginative assignments that inspire and motivate.