Useful links

New Links:

http://www.uoregon.edu/~leslieob/pizzaz.html (contributed by Kirk)

http://youtu.be/m2Yr_jwCPhE (Alan Maley reads his poem for children 'Mr Spider') (contributed by Malu)
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/teaching-kids/kids-poetry?utm_source=twitter-google+&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=bc-teachingenglish (suggestions for using poetry with young learners) (contributed by Malu)

http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/11/21/ursula-k-le-guin-where-do-you-get-your-ideas/ ( a very interesting interview with Ursula le Guin)

The new website for the ELT Online Reading Group is now live: http://eltreadinggroup.weebly.com (updated on 29 July 2013)

Happy New Year to lovers of haibun, haiku, tanka, haiga & renku poetry (updated on 6 Jan 2013):

Contemporary Haibun Online: http://contemporaryhaibunonline.com/

Haibun Today: http://haibuntoday.com/

A Hundred Gourds is: http://ahundredgourds.haikuhut.com/

Notice received: new issues of several other journals are out: 
Notes from the Gean: http://www.geantreepress.com/
Ardea: http://www.ardea.org.uk/
And The Heron's Nest invites your reader's choice submission: http://theheron's/ nest/Aawards124.html

Previous links

www.teachingenglish.org.uk/sites/teacheng/files/creative_ways.pdf

(The file can be downloaded from the above websit: useful ideas for language teachers interested in using creativity in their class. 27 October 2012)

• http://er-central.com/teachers/learn-about-extensive-reading-and-listening/additionalreading/
• http://er-central.com/

(This new site is useful for free downloads of three of Rob Waring's booklets on Extensive Reading) (contributed by Rob Waring, 17 October 2012) 

Please take a look at the following links (contributed by Alan):

• Useful website for plot development by Lester Dent formula  www.paper-dragon.com/1939/dent.html
• For your summer reading pleasure (contributed by Alan, 11 July 2012) :
  
  CHO 8:2 July 2012: http://contemporaryhaibunonline.com/
  A Hundred Gourds June 2012: http://ahundredgourds.haikuhut.com/
  Haibun Today June 2012: http://haibuntoday.com/

• For Haiku 

http://www.britishhaikusociety.org.uk/

• Both offer free downloads of stories. 

www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/national-short-story-award
http://www.booktrust.org.uk/books-and-raeding/short-stories

• More on resources:

http://www.worldbookday.com/

http://www.booktrust.org.uk/resources/

http://www.andrewarticlesandstories.wordpress.com/

http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/discussion/treading-poetic-path-volume-ii

http://elt.heinle.com/pageturners

• Fitch O'Connell, the godfather of Brit lit has the following sites going:

http://issuu.com/britishcouncilportugal/docs/inenglishdigital-3

http://www.wordpowered.org/

http://www.fitchoc.wordpress.org/

http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/try/britlit

• Sandie Mourao has some stuff on working with younger learners.

http://picturebooksinelt.blogspot.com/

• Andrew Wright ran a webinar on Stories last weekend.  You can access it on: 

http://yltsigevo2012.wordpress.com/

• Chris Lima, a Board member of the Extensive Reading Foundation, runs an on-line reading group.  Among other things, they publish a collection of poems and stories.  So far very little from the Asia region.  This might be your big chance to publish your masterpieces.  Have a look at it on:

http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/group/elt-online-reading-group

• Another one you might try is:

http://thebookworms.wordpress.com/

• A new website for children story

http://www.storycloud.co.uk/  (a website to be launched from June 18- Sept 3, 2012. StoryCloud.co.uk will be useful for you, and of interest to your family's and friend's children, especially young children between the ages of 4yrs and 10yrs. The activities following each story allow children to send in their responses to each story's optional ‘challenges', for possible inclusion in our follow up galleries.)

If you have come across any sites or sources, it might be an idea to share them with the rest of the group. Please share them here with the group.

• A free haibun website:

http://contemporaryhaibunonline.com/

• A literary prize for unpublished work  called the Proverse Prize:  for anyone interested, details are available

http://ww.proversepublishing.com

More to follow later .....

There are any number of books on creative writing.  This list includes references both for fiction and for poetry.  For our purposes, I would especially recommend the two titles by Jane Spiro. Reading about creative writing can be a help but don't forget that no amount of reading substitutes for the act of writing itself!

Angwin, Roselle.  (2002) Creative Novel Writing. London: Robert hale.

Angwin, Roselle et al. (2005) Writing the Bright Moment.  Devon: Fire in the Head.

Bell, Julia and Paul Magers (eds)  (2001) The Creative writing Coursebook.  London: Macmillan.

Block, Lawrence (1979) Writing the Novel.  Cincinnati Ohio: Writers' Digest Books.

Booker, Christopher.  (2004) The Seven Basic Plots.   London/New York: Continuum

Brande, Dorothea. (1983)  Becoming a Writer.  London: Macmillan.

Clarke, Tom et al (eds) (1992) The Handbook of Novel Writing.  Cincinnati Ohio: Writers' Digest Books.

Goldberg, Nathalie (1986) writing Down the Bones.  London: Shambhala

Koch, Kenneth. (1970)  Wishes, Lies and Dreams.  New York: Harper Collins.

Lodge, David. (1992) The Art of Fiction.   London: Penguin

Lamott, Anne (1994) Bird by Bird.  New York: Pantheon.

Matthews, Paul. (1994) Sing Me the Creation.  Stroud: Hawthorne Press.

Novakovich, Josip. (1995) Fiction Writers' Workshop.  Cincinnati Ohio: Story Press.

Propp, Vladimir. (1968) The Morphology of the Folk Tale.  University of Texas Press.

Roberts, Philip Price. (1986)  How Poetry Works.  London : Penguin.

Spiro, Jane. (2004)  Creative Poetry Writing.  Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Spiro, Jane. (2006) Creative Storybuilding.  Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Stillman, Frances (1975) The Poet's Manual and Rhyming Dictionary.  London: Readers' Union Books.

Tobias, Ronald. (1993) 20 Master Plots and how to build them.  Cincinnati Ohio: Writers' Digest Books.

Tunnacliffe, Stephen. (1984) Poetry Experience: teaching poetry in Secondary Schools.  London: Methuen.              

© Alan Maley.  July 2006