Karen Stevens

Writing a First Novel (eBook, PDF)

Reflections on the Journey

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In this inspiring collection of essays, a range of award-winning, established and newly published writers offer highly personal accounts of their creative processes. Authors reveal the anxieties, considerations and discoveries that shaped their own first novels, arming new writers with practical advice, focus and inspiration. The book's final section presents the perspectives of an agent, a publisher and an author on the business of publishing a first novel.

Writing a First Novel offers an illuminating read for both aspiring and seasoned writers. It contains contributions by:

- Hanif Kureishi
- Valerie Martin
- Johanna Skibsrud
- David Vann
- Maile Chapman
- Edward Hogan
- Kishwar Desai
- Wena Poon
- Alison MacLeod
- Andrew Cowan
- Jane Rusbridge
- Isabel Ashdown
- Helon Habila
- David Swann
- Soumya Bhattacharya
- Jane Feaver
- Hannah Westland
- Helen Garnons-Williams
- Lionel Shriver

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137368409
• Artikelnr.: 47896774

Autorenporträt

Karen Stevens is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Chichester, UK where she specializes in teaching fiction. Her short stories have appeared in many small press publications, and she has edited critical and creative anthologies Writing a First Novel (Bloomsbury, 2014) and High Spirits (2018). She is on Twitter @KarenStevens01.