Writing Short Stories: A Writers' and Artists' Companion is an essential guide to writing short fiction successfully.PART 1 explores the nature and history of the form, personal reflections by the editors, and help getting started with ideas, planning and research.PART 2 includes tips by leading short story writers, including: Alison Moore, Jane Rogers, Edith Pearlman, David Vann, Anthony Doerr, Vanessa Gebbie, Alexander MacLeod, Adam Thorpe and Elspeth Sandys.PART 3 contains practical advice - from shaping plots and exploring your characters to beating writers' block, rewriting and publishing your stories.

Includes advice from such prize-winning writers as Edith Pearlman, Jane Rogers and Toby Litt

ForewordPrefacePart 1The History Of The Short Story: TaniaCrime, Tricks, And Tales: Genre And The Short Story: CourttiaThe Shorter End Of Short Stories - Boundaries With Poetry: TaniaStories: Those Little Slices Of Life: CourttiaReflections On Writing And On Books On Writing: TaniaReflections 2: The What, When, How, Why And Where Of It For Me: TaniaReflections On The Evolution Of A Short Story: CourttiaThe Evolution Of A Short Story: Under The Tree: TaniaReflections: Permission And Risk: TaniaPart 21. Alison Moore2. Anthony Doerr3. Elspeth Sandys4. Alexander MacLeod5. David Vann6. Jane Rogers7. Edith Pearlman8. Vanessa Gebbie9. Di Speirs10. Jenn Ashworth11. Tom Lee12. Toby Litt13. Adam Thorpe14. Ryan O'Neill15. Henrietta Rose-Innes16. Clare Wigfall17. Alison Macleod18. Olive SeniorPart 3A Note On Craft And Critique: Writing Is Not A Democracy: TaniaFrom Beginning To End: CourttiaWhere To Start - Ideas And Inspiration: TaniaWhere To Start: Titles, Beginnings And Endings: TaniaMovement And Syncopation In Fiction: Writing The Long Short Story: CourttiaPlot Versus Story - Where's The Tension?: TaniaEditing And Revising: CourttiaTenses: TaniaStep Into A World - Thoughts On Structure: CourttaStructure And How To Use It: TaniaWhat Gets Left Out And Minimalism: TaniaSpeaking Their Minds - Character And Voice: CourttiaWriting Flash Fiction, Liberation Through Constraint: TaniaA Brief History Of Time In The Short Story: TaniaAnother Perspective - Point Of View In The Story: CourttiaHarvesting - On Writing Your Collection: CourttiaShort Story Collections - How Do They Work And How To Get One Published: TaniaVoice And Dialogue, Using Scenes: TaniaClose Reading Of Between My Father And The King By Janet Frame: TaniaExperimenting And Experimental Short Stories: TaniaPublishing Short Stories: TaniaShort Story Competitions - How To Make Your Story Stand Out: Tania60 Favourite Short Stories: Tania And Courttia50 Favourite Collections: Tania And Courttia