Episode 19: Writing styles

Runt by Craig Silvey

Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas

Only a Monster by Vanessa Len

Circe by Madeleine Miller

• True Story of Trumbo: TIME Coverage of Dalton Trumbo's Case | TIME
• 43 of the Most Iconic Short Stories in the English Language ‹ Literary Hub (lithub.com)
• What Is Creative Nonfiction? Definitions, Examples, and Guidelines - TCK Publishing
• Michelle McNamara's Cause of Death: How Did the Writer Die? (heavy.com)
• Script Format: 8 Basic Elements and Step-by-Step Guide (careersinfilm.com)
• What is Literary Fiction? The Ultimate Guide in 2024 (reedsy.com)
• Is James Joyce's Ulysses the hardest novel to finish? | James Joyce | The Guardian
• Breaking Up with James Joyce | Sydney Review of Books
• James Joyce’s “Ulysses,” Reconsidered | The New Yorker
• Literary reception of The Lord of the Rings - Wikipedia
• What’s the Difference Between Popular Fiction and Literary Fiction? | by Ray Harvey | Lit Up | Medium

Literary Journals with short stories:

• https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/fiction
• https://www.theparisreview.org/fiction
• https://granta.com/explore/?cat=fiction
• https://mastersreview.com/
• https://www.craftliterary.com/
• https://electricliterature.com/category/lit-mags/
• https://therazormag.com/
• https://islandmag.com/read

Resources for aspiring short story writers:

• Australian Writers Centre and South Coast Writers Centre offer courses, competitions and events
• Gotham Writers are US-based but run online classes and free weekly zoom workshops
• Craft Literary publish fiction and non-fiction, including a short author’s essay with most pieces about the writing process
• Literary Hub/Craft of Writing – articles by authors on different aspects of the writing process

Creative non-fiction to read online:

• https://creativenonfiction.org/
• https://hippocampusmagazine.com/
• https://riverteethjournal.com/
• https://msupress.org/journals/fourth-genre/
• https://www.shadowboxmagazine.org/

Books/written works:

• Night by Elie Wiesel
• A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
• In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
• A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
• Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
• The Art of Travel by Alain De Botton
• This House of Grief and True Stories by Helen Garner
• Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving
• The Lady with the Toy Dog by Anton Chekhov
• The Lady with the Pet Dog by Joyce Carol Oates
• The Monkey’s Paw by W.W. Jacobs
• Nightmares and Dreamscapes by Stephen King
• Phosphorescence by Julia Baird
• Beyond Climate Grief by Jonica Newby
• Any Ordinary Day by Leigh Sales
• When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalinithi
• Into the Wild by John Krakauer
• I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara
• Ulysses by James Joyce
• The Odyssey by Homer
• Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce
• The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
• Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• Moby Dick by Herman Melville
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
• Atonement by Ian McEwan
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
• Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
• Dune by Frank Herbert
• The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

Authors:

• Charles Dickens
• Leo Tolstoy
• Margaret Atwood
• Stephen King
• Tim Winton
• Jeffrey Archer
• Alexander McCall Smith
• Agatha Christie
• Terry Pratchett
• Hilary Mantel
• Emily St John Mandel
• Elena Ferrante
• Jessica Townsend
• Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Songs/podcasts:

• Monkey’s Paw by Laurie Anderson
• This American Life

Movies:

• The Brave One

• 7 Tests (That Aren’t The Bechdel Test) That Measure Movies For Gender Equality And Representation — The Unedit (the-unedit.com)

• Flights of fancy: pictures and inspiration from ten Children’s Laureates, introduction by Michael Morpurgo
• Infinite threads: 2019 UTS writers’ anthology, foreword by Alison Whittaker
• A Berry loving weekend: an anthology of Berry love stories by Peter McAra
• After Australia: after empire, after colony, after white supremacy … twelve diverse writers imaging an alternative Australia, edited by Michael Mohammed Ahmad
• Broken rules and other stories by Barry Lee Thompson
• Fire flood plague: Australian Writers respond to 2020, edited by Sophi Cunningham
• Tales from deep below: a turtleful of stories by young Australian writers; with a poem by Amelia Mellor 
• An exciting and vivid inner life: stories by Paul Dalla Rosa
• Create your own universe: how to invent stories, characters and ideas by The Brothers McLeod
• Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process by John McPhee
• Help! for writers: 210 solutions to the problems every writer faces by Roy Peter Clark
• Little stories of your life: find your voice, share your world and tell your story, words and photos by Laura Pashby
• Love, Clancy: a dog's letters home by Richard Glover
• Write better right now: the reluctant writer's guide to confident communication and self-assured style by Mary-Kate Mackey