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Selected Books and eBooks
The Art of Creative Research: A Field Guide for WritersPN146 .G47 2017
Can Creative Writing Really be Taught?: Resisting Lore in Creative Writing Pedagogy PE1404 .C327 2017
Researching Creative WritingThis is an eBook
The Future of Creative WritingThis is an eBook
A Companion to Creative WritingThis is an eBook
Creative Nonfiction: Researching and Crafting Stories of Real Life
Show and Tell 6: Writers on Writing: Excerpts and Insights from the Faculty of the Department of Creative WritingPS559.W55 S56 2009
Writing a Book that Makes a DifferencePN3355 .G37 2000
Vivid and Continuous: Essays and Exercises for Writing Fiction This is an eBook
Selected Journals & Literary Magazines
Chautauqua Literary Journal
Publishes writing that speaks to Chautauqua's tradition of inquiry into questions of personal, social, political, spiritual, and aesthetic importance — and when, where, and how those values and questions intersect.
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Ecotone
Writing and art magazine focused on place-based works. Founded at UNCW in 2005.
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Creative Nonfiction
Organization providing publications and educative materials to improve nonfiction prose.
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UNCW: Publishing Laboratory
Integral to the Department of Creative Writing, The Publishing Laboratory incorporates into the apprenticeship of creative writers an applied learning experience in the process by which literary manuscripts, including their own, are designed, shaped, and edited into books and published to a wide audience of readers.
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The Art of Literary Publishing: Editors on Their CraftPN162 .A5
A "how-to manual" about publishing houses from published authors.
Literary Publishing in the Twenty-First CenturyL58 L58 2016
Book by Milkweed Editions
Poets & WritersClick on the title to see how to access this magazine through the Library databases.
Publishers WeeklyClick on the title to see how to access this magazine through the Library databases.
Writer's MarketPN161 .W83
Current copy of this handbook in Ready Reference at the Research Help Desk in Randall Library
Recommended Databases
Oxford Journals
Collections cover Life Sciences, Mathematics & Physical Sciences, Medicine, Social Sciences, Humanities, Social Work, Sociology, English, Creative Writing, Criminology, and Law, and include some of the most authoritative journals in their fields.
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Wiley Online Library
A multidisciplinary collection of academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, social work, sociology, English, computer sciences, creative writing, engineering, psychology, law and criminology, life sciences, and business. UNCW has access to 1,600+ journals (coverage dates vary) and 21,000+ online books.
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MLA International Bibliography
Subjects within the MLA International Bibliography consist of literature, language and linguistics, creative writing, English, folklore, film, foreign languages and literatures, literary theory & criticism, theatre, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing. Listings on rhetoric and composition and the history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature are also included.
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JSTOR
Archive of selected scholarly journals in anthropology, art, art history, communication studies, criminology, ecology, economics, education, English, film studies, foreign languages and literatures, geography, geology, history, mathematics, music, philosophy, political science, public and international affairs, religion, social work, sociology, statistics, theatre, and other humanities and social sciences.
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Project MUSE
Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers providing 100% full-text, to high quality humanities, arts, art history, creative writing, education, English, film studies, foreign languages and literatures, history, religion, theatre, and social sciences journals from scholarly publishers.
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Cambridge Core
Cambridge Core is the Cambridge University Press’s online collection of journals and books across the computer sciences, sciences, social sciences and humanities.
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Gale Literary Sources
Presents industry-leading literature content, including criticism, biographies, reference articles, reviews, primary sources, plot analysis, explication, and multimedia. Up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. Searches across Gale Virtual Reference Library, Literature Criticism Online and Something About the Author Online.
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NoveList Plus
A readers’ advisory resource that uses appeal factors and expert reviews to offer read-alike and listen-alike recommendations for fiction, nonfiction, and audiobooks.
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African-American Poetry
Contains nearly 3,000 poems from African-American poets in the late 18th and 19th centuries.
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African-American Poetry (20th Century)
Contains nearly 9,000 poems from African American poets of the 20th century.
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American Poetry
Over 40,000 poems by American poets from the Colonial Period to the early 20th century.
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American Poetry (20th Century)
50,000 poems by American poets from the early 20th century to the present.
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English Poetry
Contains essentially the complete English poetic canon from the 8th century to the early 20th. Over 160,000 poems by more than 1,250 poets are drawn from nearly 4,500 printed sources.
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Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Includes books, pamphlets, essays, broadsides and more. Based on the English Short Title Catalogue. Works published in the UK during the 18th century plus thousands from elsewhere.
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American Fiction, 1774-1920
American Fiction, 1774-1920 encompasses more than 17,500 works of prose fiction written by Americans from the political beginnings of the United States through World War I.
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If we do not have the full-text of the articles, or a book you need, fill out the Interlibrary Loan (ILL) form and request it. This is a free service for students, faculty, and staff.
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