Peter Selgin, 179 Ways to Save a Novel

Brandilyn Collins, Getting into Character

Sven Birkets, The Element of Time in Memoir

G. Thomas Couser, Memoir: An Introduction

Francis Flaherty, The Elements of Story

Philip Gerard, Creative Nonfiction: Researching and Crafting Stories of Real Life

Vivian Gornick, The Situation and the Story

Jessica Handler, Braving the Fire: Writing About Grief and Loss

Carl H. Klaus and Ned Stuckey-French, Essayists on the Essay

Thomas Larson, The Memoir and the Memoirist: Reading and Writing Personal Narrative

Philip Lopate, To Show and To Tell

Brenda Miller and Susan Paola, Tell It Slant

Bill Roorbach, Writing Life StoriesBill Roorbach, Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: The Art of Truth

David Bayles & Ted Orland, Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

Janet Burroway, Imaginative Writing: The Elements of Craft

Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones

Lee Martin, Telling Stories: The Craft of Narrative and the Writing LifeAnn Lamott, Bird By Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and LifeElizabeth Berg, Escaping Into the Open

Donald Newlove, First Paragraphs

Richard Hugo, The Triggering Town

Julia Cameron, The Right to Write and The Artist's Way

Heather Sellers, The Practice of Creative WritingVerlyn Klinkenborg, Several Short Sentences about WritingBret Anthony Johnston, Naming the World and Other Exercises for the Creative WriterChristopher Vogler, The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for WritersBrenda Ueland: If You Want to Write: A Book about Independence and SpiritDorothea Brand, Becoming a Writer