The Creative Act

Rick Rubin

Bird by Bird

Anne Lamott

Faith, Hope and Carnage

Nick Cave & Seán O'Hagan

The Artist's Joy

Merideth Hite Estevez

Wild about books

Michael Wilding

Creative confidence: unleashing the creative potential within us all

Tom Kelley, David Kelley

On the Origin of Stories

Brian Boyd

Writing with Pleasure

Helen Sword

Save the Cat! Writes a Novel

Jessica Brody

Critical Creative Writing: Essential Readings on the Writer's Craft

Janelle Adsit (ed.)

Creative writing

Mark Pearson, Helen Foster

The Handbook of Creative Writing

Steven Earnshaw

Essays in the art of writing

Robert Louis Stevenson

Discovering creative writing

Graeme Harper

The creative writing compass

Graeme Harper

Intersecting genre. A skills-based approach to creative writing

Dr Jason Olsen

The Clay Writer. Shaping in Creative Writing

Zoran Živković

The elements of style

William Strunk Jr., E. B. White, et al.

Creative Writing and Stylistics. Revised and Expanded Edition Critical and Creative Approaches

Jeremy Scott

The Bloomsbury introduction to creative writing

Tara Mokhtari

A Poetry Handbook

Mary Oliver

The Creative Writer's Survival Guide

John McNally

Curated fiction: novel writing in theory and practice

Cameron Hindrum

A Guide to Creative Writing and the Imagination

Kris Saknussemm

Every day I write the book: notes on style

Amitava Kumar

The Lyric Essay as Resistance. Truth from the Margins

The girl in the window and other true tales. An anthology with tips for finding, reporting, and writing nonfiction narratives

Lane DeGregory

The fine art of literary fist-fighting. How a bunch of rabble-rousers, outsiders, and ne'er-do-wells concocted creative nonfiction

Lee Gutkind

A year and a day. An experiment in essays

Philip Lopate

Blurring the boundaries. Explorations to the fringes of nonfiction

B.J. Hollars

Truth in nonfiction. Essays

David Lazar, John D'Agata, Mark Doty, Su Friedrich

Bending genre. Essays on creative nonfiction

Dr. Margot Singer and Dr. Nicole Walker

Literary non-fiction. Writing about everything from travel to food to sex

Sally Cline, Midge Gillies, et al.

Thinking through style. Non-fiction prose of the long nineteenth century

Michael D. Hurley and Marcus Waithe

First person journalism. A guide to writing personal nonfiction with real impact

Martha Nichols

Life writing. A writers' & artists' companion: writing biography, autobiography and memoir

Sally Cline

The Wiley guide to writing essays about literature

Paul Headrick

In other words

Jhumpa Lahiri

Changing my mind

Zadie Smith

Yellowface

R.F. Kuang

How to Tell a Story and Other Essays

Mark Twain

De grote wil en andere schrijflesverhalen

Nicolien Mizee

Waarheidsliefde en biefstuk: essays over lezen en schrijven

Arnon Grunberg

Daily Modernism

Elizabeth Podnieks

The Written World and the Unwritten World

Italo Calvino

On Writing

Charles Bukowski

Creative Writing

Amal Chatterjee (ed.)

On writing: a memoir of the craft

Stephen King

Negotiating with the Dead

Margaret Atwood

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

George. Saunders

A room of one's own

Letters to a Young Poet

Rainer Maria Rilke

Devotion

Patti Smith

Inadvertent

Karl Ove Knausgaard