FICTION AND NARRATIVE NON-FICTION
Please note that many of the principles that apply to fiction are equally relevant to narrative non-fiction.
- Carmel Bird, Dear Writer, McPhee Gribble, 1988
- Lisa Cron, Story Genius How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel, Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed, 2016
- Gary Disher, Writing Fiction: an introduction to the craft, Allen & Unwin, 2001
- Louise Doughty, A Novel in a Year, Simon & Schuster, 2007
- Sherry Ellis (ed), Now Write! Fiction Writing Exercises from Today’s Best Writers & Teachers, Penguin, 2006
- Kate Grenville and Sue Woolfe, Making Stories: How Ten Australian Novels were Written, Allen & Unwin, 1993
- David Jauss, On Writing Fiction: Rethinking Conventional Wisdom About the Craft, Writer’s Digest Books, 2011
- Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, Hodder & Stoughton, 2000
- Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, Anchor Books, 1995
- Priscilla Long, The Writer’s Portable Mentor: A Guide to Art, Craft, and the Writing Life, Wallingford Press, 2010
- John Mullan, How Novels Work, Oxford University Press, 2006
- Francine Prose, Reading Like a Writer, HarperCollins, 2006
- Alexander Steele (ed), Gotham Writers’ Workshop: Writing Fiction: A practical guide from New York’s acclaimed creative writing school, Bloomsbury, 2003
SELF-EDITING
- Susan Bell, The Artful Edit: On the practice of editing yourself, Norton, 2007
- Helen Corner-Bryant and Kathryn Price, On Editing: How to edit your novel the professional way, John Murray Learning, 2018
- Betsy Lerner, The Forest for the Trees: An Editor’s Advice to Writers, Riverhead Books, 2000
- Alan Watt, The 90-day Rewrite, L.A. Writers’ lab, 2012
STORY STRUCTURE
- Gail Carriger, The Heroine’s Journey: For writers, readers and fans of pop culture, Gail Carriger, 2020
- Robert McKee, Story: Style, Structure, Substance and the Principles of Screenwriting, HarperCollins, 1997
- John Yorke, Into the Woods: How stories work and why we tell them, Penguin, 2013
MEMOIR
- Judith Barrington, Writing the memoir, Allen & Unwin, 1997
- Vivian Gornick, The Situation and the Story, Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2001
- Mary Karr, The Art of Memoir, Harper 2015
- Patti Miller, Writing Your Life, Allen & Unwin, 2nd ed. 2001
- Drusilla Modjeska, Timepieces, Picador, 2002
CHILDREN’S BOOKS
- Ann Whitford Paul, Writing Picture Books – A Hands-On Guide from Story Creation to Publication, Writer’s Digest Books, 2009
PODCASTS
- Inside Writing by Gotham Writers Workshop (see also Gotham Writers YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/gothamwriters)
- The First Time with Katherine Collette and Kate Mildenhall
- The Shit No One Tells You About Writing with Bianca Marais, Carly Watters and CeCe Lyra
- The Writer’s Room with Charlotte Wood
- The Manuscript Academy #MSWL (Manuscript Wish List)
- The Secret Life of Writers by Tablo with Jemma Birrell, Tablo Publishing
