Writing Short Stories: A Writers' and Artists' Companion is an essential guide to writing short fiction successfully.
 PART 1 explores the nature and history of the form, personal reflections by the editors, and help getting started with ideas, planning and research.
 PART 2 includes tips by leading short story writers, including: Alison Moore, Jane Rogers, Edith Pearlman, David Vann, Anthony Doerr, Vanessa Gebbie, Alexander MacLeod, Adam Thorpe and Elspeth Sandys.
 PART 3 contains practical advice - from shaping plots and exploring your characters to beating writers' block, rewriting and publishing your stories.

Writing Short Stories: A Writers' and Artists' Companion (Writers' and Artists' Companions)

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Newland, Courttia

Hershman, Tania

Words, Language & Grammar

Bloomsbury Academic

Review\nWomen have often been omitted from history, even though they were present and actively contributed. Bell (Kith), Tania Hershman (How High Did She Fly), and Ailsa Holland (The Lost Tale of Gawain) seek to correct this omission with this Twitter-inspired page-a-day collection of biographies of both famous and lesser-known women. Entries include historical, contemporary, and BIPOC women, and the range of accomplishment is breathtaking. The courage and tenacity of these scientists, artists, mountaineers, social and civil rights activists, educators, warriors, soldiers, and resistance workers, among others, shine through. This array of achievement will also provoke dismay and righteous anger: a number of entries state some were denied further education simply because universities did not then admit women. Many women refused to accept the status quo. Others were pioneers in their fields, only to watch male colleagues take the credit, be awarded prestigious honors, and claim the financial benefits. This illustrated compendium’s enjoyable daily entries will inspire readers to undertake further research. The strong, brave women tumbling from its pages will be a welcome addition to reference and history collections. ― Library Journal\nThis thoroughly enjoyable, slightly addictive almanac celebrates a different woman for every day of the year…. The brief but insightful biographical essays are written from a witty feminist viewpoint, and are quick to point out instances where women's achievements have been ignored, dismissed, or misappropriated…. These individual profiles are just the right length to be read aloud in classrooms or shared at other events. This accessible reference will come in handy for March—Women's History Month—and every other day of the year. ― Booklist\nA fascinating page-a-day collection profiling extraordinary women of all races, eras, and nationalities.\nOur past is full of influential women. Whether politicians, troublemakers, explorers, artists, and even the odd murderer, women have shaped society around the globe. But too often, these women have been unfairly confined to the margins of history.\nOn This Day She: Putting Women Back into History One Day at a Time corrects this imbalance. A day-by-day collection of inspiring stories about incredible women who made history but seldom received the acknowledgement they deserved, this book introduces readers to women of all colors, eras, and nationalities. From Queen Elizabeth I to Beyoncé, Doria Shafik to Lillian Bilocca, this book gives voice both to female icons and to those whom the history books have overlooked.\nThese women campaigned, cured, and adventured their way through life. They include musicians, painters, scientists, poets, and more. Spanning centuries, On This Day She is a record of human existence at its most authentic.\nBook Description\nA fascinating page-a-day collection profiling extraordinary women of all races, eras, and nationalities.

On This Day She: Putting Women Back into History One Day at a Time

Holland, Ailsa

Bell, Jo

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

The tried and tested 'On This Day in History' format has elevated the stories of many people and their impact on the wider world. However, of those considered noteworthy by the Establishment, just a fraction are women. But this is not the whole story - not by half.\nOur past is full of influential women, many of whom have been unfairly confined to the margins of history. Politicians, troublemakers, explorers, artists, writers, scientists and even the odd murderer; these women have shaped society around the globe.\nFrom Beyoncé to Doria Shafik, Queen Elizabeth I to Lillian Bilocca, On This Day She sets out to redress this imbalance and give voice to both those already deemed female icons, alongside others whom the history books have failed to include: the good, the bad and everything in between - this is a record of human existence at its most authentic.

On This Day She: Putting Women Back Into History, One Day At A Time

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Metro Publishing

My Mother Was an Upright Piano builds on the strengths of Tania Hershman's first collection of short stories The White Road which was commended by the judges of the 2009 Orange Award for New Writers. Hershman's fiction is inspiring, thought-provoking and witty. Her economy with words cloaks her subtlety and power, and she is able to create characters with distinct voices and explore deep and sometimes disturbing relationships is just a few paragraphs of prose. Her writing style has a lyrical quality and often the meter of her work brings added resonance to her themes.

My Mother Was An Upright Piano

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Tangent Books

Tania Hershman is a former science journalist turned short story phenomenon. Her previous collections, including poetry, have attracted enormous praise and attention and in SOME OF US GLOW MORE THAN OTHERS she invites us to sample what life is like at the cutting edge of technology, where the future appears to be rushing ever faster to meet our present. Whether she is writing about genetics, laboratory etiquette, art and experimentation, or the simplest molecules that make up our myriad world, all her stories exude the power of her precision prose. Ranging from poignant cameos and unlikely viewpoints to the most complex decisions humans can make, these extraordinary stories gently challenge our world view as we careen toward the unknown and ask us to assess what we wish to retain of ourselves, what to jettison, and what we hope to attain when we get there. Stories from this, her third collection, have been heard on Radio 4 and Radio 3.

Some of Us Glow More than Others

Unthank Books.com

Go On

Literary

Broken Sleep Books

Flash Fiction Festival Four

Jones, Karen

O'Connor, Nuala

Pokrass, Meg

Stohlman, Nancy

Balagopal, Sudha

Carle, K B

Fish, Kathy

Festival, Flash Fiction

Elkes, K M

Ad Hoc Fiction

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