Recommended Books on Writing

The Poet’s Companion

Kim Addonizo and Dorianne Laux

Narrative Design

Madison Smartt Bell

Refuse to be Done

Matt Bell

The Making of a Poem

Evan Boland and Mark Strand

Writing Poems

Michelle Boisseau et al

The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

Julia Cameron

Creating Fiction

Julie Checkoway

Writing as a Way of Healing

Louise DeSalvo

Best Words, Best Order

Stephen Dobyns

Nine Gates

Jane Hirshfield

The Book of Rhythms

Langston Hughes

The Way of the Writer: Reflections on the Art and Craft of Storytelling

Charles Johnson

The Art of Memoir

Mary Karr

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Stephen King

Poetry Home Repair Manual

Ted Kooser

Bird by Bird

Anne Lamott

The Making of a Story

Alice LaPlante

Steering the Craft

Ursula Le Guin

The Writer's Portable Mentor: A Guide to Art, Craft, and the Writing Life

Priscilla Long

Before and After the Book Deal

Courtney Maum

A Poetry Handbook

Mary Oliver

What About the Baby? Some Thoughts on the Art of Fiction

Alice McDermott

Opening Up by Writing It Down: How Expressive Writing Improves Health and Eases Emotional Pain

James Pennebaker and Joshua Smyth

Thrill Me

Ben Percy

Letters to a Young Poet

Rainer Maria Rilke

Craft in the Real World

Matthew Salesses

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

George Saunders

The Science of Storytelling

Will Storr

The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist Forms by Mecca

Jamilah Sullivan

One Writer's Beginnings

Eudora Welty

How Fiction Works

James Wood

The Mystery of the Cleaning Lady: A Writer Looks at Obsession, Creativity and Neuroscience

Sue Woolfe