Fiction Workshop Companion

Age Range: Adult
Authors: Jon Volkmer

Publication Date: 1995
Number of Pages: 120
ISBN: 0-9696985-2-6
Cost: $8.95 PB

Publisher: Bendall Books
Phone: (250) 743-2946

Publisher's Description:

It's not a textbook... It's not an anthology... It is a companion.

A central premise behind this book for "writers-in-progress" is that the primary text of any creative writing workshop should be the stories of the participants. Unlike larger textbooks and anthologies, Volkmer's Fiction Workshop Companion is designed to provide important information, and then get out of the way.

This important information, delivered with style and wit, includes:

• a discussion of how the workshop fits into the larger context of one's life and education
• an overview of the primary techniques and strategies for effective fiction writing
• a detailed glossary of writing and literary terminology
• advice on being an effective and helpful critic, including "The Ten Commandments of Workshop Criticism", and
• tips for when you're "it"
• essential guidelines, or protocols, for running effective workshops

The Fiction Workshop Companion includes six sample short stories - engaging contemporary short stories that were originally written in fiction workshops and went on to be published, some to win awards. Added commentary by Volkmer discusses the particularly well employed techniques present in each story.

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