The Rose Metal Press field guide to writing flash nonfiction : advice and essential exercises from respected writers, editors, and teachers / edited by Dinty W. Moore.

Contributor(s):

Moore, Dinty W, 1955- [editor]

Language: English Publication details: Brookline, MA : Rose Metal Press, 2012.Description: 179 p. ; 22 cmISBN:

9780984616664
0984616667

Subject(s):

LOC classification:

PN 145 R812 2012

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Mysterious, Ambitious, And Intimate: The Flash Nonfiction Form -- On Miniatures / Lia Purpura -- Writing into the Flash: On Finding Short Nonfiction's Decisive Moment / Barrie Jean Borich -- On Carnival Lights, Compression, and Mice / Carol Guess -- Writing in Place / Bret Lott -- "No Ideas But In Things": The Power Of Image And Detail -- Friendship, Intuition, and Trust: On the Importance of Detail / Brenda Miller -- Memory Triggers and Tropes / Rigoberto Gonzalez -- Paper Clips, Sausage, Candy Cigarettes, Silk: "Thingy-ness" in Flash Nonfiction / Anne Panning -- The Ant in the Water Droplet -- Philip Graham 50 -- The Wound of the Photograph: A Meditation on the Well-Chosen Detail / Robin Hemley -- Speaking To The Reader: On Finding Your Voice -- Crafting Voice / Jennifer Sinor -- Communal and Personal Voices / Lee Martin -- Writing Though Innocence and Experience: Voices in Flash Nonfiction / Sue William Silverman. Contents note continued: Words, Wonderful Words: Using Sound And Language -- The Sounds and Sense of Sentences / Barbara Hurd -- Location, Location, Location / Peggy Shumaker -- Word Hoards: On Diction and the Riches of the English Language / Eric LeMay -- Of You And I: Thoughts On Point-Of-View -- Bye-Bye, I, and Hello, You / Ira Sukrungruang -- All About You / Dinah Lenney -- Weaving Past, Present, and Future in Flash Nonfiction / Norma Elia Cantu -- Settling On Structure: Shaping Flash Nonfiction -- Over the River and Through the Woods, to Almanac We Go; On the Use of Research and Lists in Flash Nonfiction / Aimee Nezhukumatathil -- The Art of Digression / Judith Kitchen -- Building a Frame, Giving an Essay a Form / Maggie McKnight -- The Singular Moment: Where To Begin, Where To End -- The Question of Where We Begin / Kyle Minor -- Of Artifacts and MRIs, or Stuck on the Web with You / Nicole Walker -- On Beginnings and Endings / Jenny Boully. Contents note continued: Against The Grain: Alternative Approaches To Flash Nonfiction -- Writing the Brief Contrary Essay / Patrick Madden -- Walking, Gathering, Listening: Writing from the Green World / Jeff Gundy.

Summary: "Unmatched in its focus on a concise and popular emerging genre, The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Nonfiction features 26 eminent writers, editors, and teachers offering expert analysis, focused exercises, and helpful examples of what make the brief essay form such a perfect medium for experimentation, insight, and illumination. With a comprehensive introduction to the genre and book by editor Dinty W. Moore, this guide is perfect for both the classroom and the individual writer's desk--an essential handbook for anyone interested in the scintillating and succinct flash nonfiction form. How many words does it take to tell a compelling true story? The answer might surprise you."--Publisher's description.

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Machine generated contents note: Mysterious, Ambitious, And Intimate: The Flash Nonfiction Form --
On Miniatures / Lia Purpura --
Writing into the Flash: On Finding Short Nonfiction's Decisive Moment / Barrie Jean Borich --
On Carnival Lights, Compression, and Mice / Carol Guess --
Writing in Place / Bret Lott --
"No Ideas But In Things": The Power Of Image And Detail --
Friendship, Intuition, and Trust: On the Importance of Detail / Brenda Miller --
Memory Triggers and Tropes / Rigoberto Gonzalez --
Paper Clips, Sausage, Candy Cigarettes, Silk: "Thingy-ness" in Flash Nonfiction / Anne Panning --
The Ant in the Water Droplet --
Philip Graham 50 --
The Wound of the Photograph: A Meditation on the Well-Chosen Detail / Robin Hemley --
Speaking To The Reader: On Finding Your Voice --
Crafting Voice / Jennifer Sinor --
Communal and Personal Voices / Lee Martin --
Writing Though Innocence and Experience: Voices in Flash Nonfiction / Sue William Silverman. Contents note continued: Words, Wonderful Words: Using Sound And Language --
The Sounds and Sense of Sentences / Barbara Hurd --
Location, Location, Location / Peggy Shumaker --
Word Hoards: On Diction and the Riches of the English Language / Eric LeMay --
Of You And I: Thoughts On Point-Of-View --
Bye-Bye, I, and Hello, You / Ira Sukrungruang --
All About You / Dinah Lenney --
Weaving Past, Present, and Future in Flash Nonfiction / Norma Elia Cantu --
Settling On Structure: Shaping Flash Nonfiction --
Over the River and Through the Woods, to Almanac We Go; On the Use of Research and Lists in Flash Nonfiction / Aimee Nezhukumatathil --
The Art of Digression / Judith Kitchen --
Building a Frame, Giving an Essay a Form / Maggie McKnight --
The Singular Moment: Where To Begin, Where To End --
The Question of Where We Begin / Kyle Minor --
Of Artifacts and MRIs, or Stuck on the Web with You / Nicole Walker --
On Beginnings and Endings / Jenny Boully. Contents note continued: Against The Grain: Alternative Approaches To Flash Nonfiction --
Writing the Brief Contrary Essay / Patrick Madden --
Walking, Gathering, Listening: Writing from the Green World / Jeff Gundy.

"Unmatched in its focus on a concise and popular emerging genre, The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Nonfiction features 26 eminent writers, editors, and teachers offering expert analysis, focused exercises, and helpful examples of what make the brief essay form such a perfect medium for experimentation, insight, and illumination. With a comprehensive introduction to the genre and book by editor Dinty W. Moore, this guide is perfect for both the classroom and the individual writer's desk--an essential handbook for anyone interested in the scintillating and succinct flash nonfiction form. How many words does it take to tell a compelling true story? The answer might surprise you."--Publisher's description.

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