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BIPOC Writers on the Craft of Writing
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About Writing: Seven Essays, Four Letters, & Five Interviews
by:
Samuel R. Delany
4.27 avg rating β 453 ratings
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Poetry as Spellcasting: Poems, Essays, and Prompts for Manifesting Liberation and Reclaiming Power
by:
Tamiko Beyer
4.11 avg rating β 165 ratings
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The African American Guide to Writing & Publishing Non Fiction
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Jewell Parker Rhodes
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 14 ratings
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The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How To Decolonize the Creative Classroom
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Felicia Rose Chavez
4.59 avg rating β 980 ratings
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Black Women Writers at Work
by:
Claudia Tate
4.60 avg rating β 356 ratings
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Capsule Course in Black Poetry Writing
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Gwendolyn Brooks
4.20 avg rating β 5 ratings
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Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping
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Matthew Salesses
4.44 avg rating β 2,331 ratings
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Dreaming Out Loud: African American Novelists at Work
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Horace A. Porter
4.62 avg rating β 8 ratings
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Elements of Fiction
by:
Walter Mosley
3.78 avg rating β 592 ratings
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Free Within Ourselves: Fiction Lessons for Black Authors
by:
Jewell Parker Rhodes
4.29 avg rating β 41 ratings
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How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
by:
Alexander Chee
4.38 avg rating β 12,206 ratings
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The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
by:
Toni Morrison
4.30 avg rating β 4,087 ratings
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How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill
by:
Jericho Brown
4.47 avg rating β 121 ratings
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Poetry for the People
by:
June Jordan
4.45 avg rating β 176 ratings
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Meditations and Ascensions: Black Writers on Writing
by:
Brenda M. Greene
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
by:
Toni Morrison
4.32 avg rating β 7,357 ratings
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The Little Book of Muses
by:
Khaled Talib
4.52 avg rating β 23 ratings
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The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life
by:
Amy Tan
3.94 avg rating β 8,651 ratings
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The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction: Tips from Editors, Teachers, and Writers in the Field
by:
Tara Lynn Masih
4.16 avg rating β 506 ratings
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The Sentences That Create Us
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PEN America
4.61 avg rating β 49 ratings
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The Sentences That Create Us: Crafting A Writerβs Life in Prison
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America PEN
4.25 avg rating β 4 ratings
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Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism
by:
Trinh T. Minh-ha
4.25 avg rating β 820 ratings
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Novelist as a Vocation
by:
Haruki Murakami
3.89 avg rating β 17,143 ratings
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The Way of the Writer: Reflections on the Art and Craft of Storytelling
by:
Charles R. Johnson
3.81 avg rating β 526 ratings
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Immersive Storytelling for Real and Imagined Worlds: A Writerβs Guide
by:
Margaret Kerrison
4.16 avg rating β 128 ratings
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Immersive Storytelling for Real and Imagined Worlds: A Writer's Guide
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Margaret Kerrison
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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Poetry Is Not a Luxury
by:
Audre Lorde
4.58 avg rating β 215 ratings
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Pivotal Voices, Era of Transition: Toward a 21st Century Poetics
by:
Rigoberto GonzΓ‘lez
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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The Mirror Diary: Selected Essays
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Garrett Hongo
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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Remembered Rapture: The Writer at Work
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bell hooks
4.17 avg rating β 427 ratings
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To Be the Poet
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Maxine Hong Kingston
3.49 avg rating β 95 ratings
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Breaking the Alabaster Jar: Conversations with Li-Young Lee (American Readers Series)
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Li-Young Lee
4.43 avg rating β 154 ratings
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In Search of Duende
by:
Federico GarcΓa Lorca
4.30 avg rating β 1,080 ratings
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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
by:
Audre Lorde
4.53 avg rating β 39,730 ratings
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Conversations with Audre Lorde (Literary Conversations Series)
by:
Joan Wylie Hall
4.40 avg rating β 63 ratings
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The Cracks Between What We are and What We are Supposed to Be: Essays and Interviews
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Harryette Mullen
4.50 avg rating β 8 ratings
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A Stranger's Journey: Race, Identity, and Narrative Craft in Writing
by:
David Mura
4.37 avg rating β 100 ratings
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Alternating Current
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Octavio Paz
4.04 avg rating β 189 ratings
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The Bow and the Lyre: The Poem, The Poetic Revelation, Poetry and History (Texas Pan American Series)
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Octavio Paz
4.27 avg rating β 648 ratings
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The Siren and the Seashell: And Other Essays on Poets and Poetry (Texas Pan American Series)
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Octavio Paz
4.50 avg rating β 4 ratings
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Coin of the Realm: Essays on the Life and Art of Poetry
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Carl Phillips
4.34 avg rating β 94 ratings
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The Art of Daring: Risk, Restlessness, Imagination
by:
Carl Phillips
4.01 avg rating β 221 ratings
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Writing the Other
by:
Nisi Shawl
4.18 avg rating β 840 ratings
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On Poetics, Identity & Latinidad: CantoMundo Poets Speak Out
by:
Rosebud Ben-Oni
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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When the Rewards Can Be So Great: Essays on Writing and the Writing Life
by:
Kwame Dawes
4.31 avg rating β 36 ratings
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The Other Latin@: Writing Against a Singular Identity (Camino del Sol)
by:
Blas Falconer
4.36 avg rating β 11 ratings
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Of Color: Poets' Ways of Making: An Anthology of Essays on Transformative Poetics
by:
Amanda Galvan Huynh
4.50 avg rating β 4 ratings
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Black Lightning
by:
Eileen R. Tabios
4.41 avg rating β 17 ratings
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How Dare We! Write
by:
Sherry Quan Lee
4.71 avg rating β 31 ratings
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How Dare We! Write: A Multicultural Creative Writing Discourse, 2nd Edition
by:
Sherry Quan Lee
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 2 ratings
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How Dare We! Write: A Multicultural Creative Writing Discourse
by:
Aruni Kashyap
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Poetry: A Writers' Guide and Anthology
by:
Amorak Huey
4.40 avg rating β 77 ratings
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The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction, 1948-1985
by:
James Baldwin
4.68 avg rating β 677 ratings