Exercise Book

Description

Exercise Book collects over fifty creative writing exercises used by Bill Manhire and his colleagues, not only at Victoria but throughout New Zealand and around the world. The celebrated writer/teachers who have contributed include Eleanor Catton, Curtis Sittenfeld, Emily Perkins, David Vann, Elizabeth and Sara Knox, Dora Malech and Kirsty Gunn. This book will be an indispensible resource for teachers and students, and excellent stimulation and entertainment for anyone wanting to give writing a go.

Ken Duncum is a teacher of writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University-Wellington and the author of Flipside: The Men of the Rose-Noelle. Bill Manhire directs the creative writing programme at Victoria University-Wellington and is the author of Collected Poems and Lifted. He was the inaugural Te Mata Estate New Zealand Poet Laureate in 1996-1997, received an Arts Foundation of New Zealand Laureate award in 2005, and in 2007 received the Prime Minister's Award for Poetry. Chris Price is a lecturer at Victoria University-Wellington. She convenes the International Institute of Modern Letters' undergraduate poetry workshop and manages the online journal, Turbine. She is the author of Brief Lives and Husk, which received the New Zealand Society of Authors Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry. Damien Wilkins is a writer, an editor, and a poet, and the author of eight books, including The Fainter, Little Masters, and The Miserables. He is the editor of Great Sporting Moments: The Best of Sport Magazine 1988-2004.