The Bloomsbury Introduction to Creative Writing

Tara Mokhtari

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2026
• Edition: 3
• eBook ISBN:
  9781350467156
• Topic: Personal Development
• Subtopic: Film Screenwriting

Covering all of the major genres of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, dramatic writing and writing for digital media, this 3rd edition of the book is a practical, complete, introductory manual for students of creative writing.

The Bloomsbury Introduction to Creative Writing now features:

- New sections and exercises for editing and revising across the genres and hybrid forms
- A new chapter on intersectionality and writing alongside interviews with practitioners from a host of backgrounds and experiences
- An updated and expanded chapter on writing for digital media that explores the role of AI
- An updated and fully expanded glossary of key terms

Through a structured series of practical writing exercises – perfect for the classroom, the writer's workshop or the creative writing autodidact – the book helps build the new writer from the first explorations of voice and the relationship between writing and knowledge, through to mastery of a wide range of genres and forms. With practical guidance on writing scholarly critiques of your own work, The Bloomsbury Introduction to Creative Writing is an essential guide for any introductory creative writing course and a practical companion for more advanced writers.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle Page
• Title Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: The Knowing Writer
• 1 Writing and Knowledge
• 2 Writing the Self
• 3 Poetics and Poetry Composition
• 4 Fiction Conventions
• 5 Screenwriting
• 6 Writing for Performance
• 7 Writing for Digital Media
• 8 Critique and Exegesis
• 9 Writing Culture and Intersectionality
• Glossary of Terms
• Works Cited
• Index
• Imprint