Writing the Real - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1917792328 ISBN 13: 9781917792325

Verlag: Dead Ink Books, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

Featuring essays from: Jenn Ashworth, Marie Crook, Dan Dixon, Kit de Waal, Kristie De Garis, Adam Farrer, Tracy King, Tom Lee, Kirsty Logan, Noreen Masud, Gareth E Rees, Adam Scovell and Nikesh Shukla. The creative nonfiction writer faces a daunting task. They must sculpt their experiences into captivating narratives, ensuring that their writing is both accessible and devoid of self-indulgence. They have the memories and the material, but telling their story effectively requires more than simply laying these out on the page. In WRITING THE REAL, a selection of the best creative nonfiction writers explore the craft in all its forms. From memoir and personal essays to place-based writing and autofiction, writers such as Nikesh Shukla, Kirsty Logan, Kit de Waal and Tom Lee examine how we shape our own experiences on the page, and how the ambiguity of 'reality' can become a source of creative energy. Each writer follows their own path into the real, but taken together these essays show the myriad ways in which lived experience can become a compelling story. Writing the Real is essential reading for anyone interested in creative nonfiction - whether as a writer, a reader, or someone drawn to the art of making meaning from the world as it is.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Dan Coxon has won a World Fantasy Award (Heartwood: A Mythago Wood Anthology) and two British Fantasy Awards (Writing the Uncanny and Writing the Future, both co-edited with Richard V. Hirst). He has been shortlisted for the British Fantasy Awards a total of eight times, has been longlisted for a BSFA Award, and was a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Awards. In October 2025 his anthology of haunted house stories, Unquiet Guests, was published by Dead Ink Books.

Richard V. Hirst is an award-winning writer and editor from Preston, now based in Manchester. His writing has appeared in numerous publications including The Guardian, Time Out, and The Big Issue and his awards include the Manchester Fiction Prize, the British Fantasy Awards and the Saboteur Awards. His books include We Were Strangers and Writing the Uncanny (co-edited with Dan Coxon), among others, and he works on programming, fundraising and communications for a number of community arts charities in the North West. He is interested in short stories, ghost stories, stories set in winter and sad stories about lonely British people quietly having a terrible time.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Dead Ink Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1917792328
• ISBN 13: 9781917792325
• Einband: Broché
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240
• Herausgeber: Coxon Dan, Hirst Richard V.
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