Our Ashland MFA faculty were asked to recommend books for developing writers. We're including instructional guides, anthologies, and classics of the craft, all meant to be helpful tools for your writing. Listed below are this month’s recommendations. Creative Nonfiction Tell It Slant: Writing and Shaping Creative Nonfiction , by Brenda Miller and Suzanne Paola Recommended by Robert Root The first edition covers process and forms, offers strategies, and has a dandy anthology. It's a solid introductory book on nonfiction. Poetry The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry , ed. by J.D. McClatchy Recommended by Mark Neely This work is a nice introduction to contemporary world poetry, featuring a broad range of poets from five continents. Fiction Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf Recommended by Erika Krouse, E.J. Levy, and William Haywood Henderson This work is a great study of consciousness as the...
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