Creative Writing: Four Genres in Brief By: David Starkey

Author: David Starkey

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.