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“So often people ask me if there’s a book on story I can recommend. This is the one. I can’t recommend it highly enough.”––Alexa Junge, writer/producer, Friends, Sex and the City, The West Wing A master class of 27 lessons, drawn from 27 diverse narratives, for novelists...

What will it take to stop gendered violence? What went wrong? Australian governments promised to end violence against women and children in a single generation. Instead, it is escalating: men have been murdering women at an increased rate, coercive control and sexual violence are becoming more complex and severe, and we see a marked rise in youth-on-youth sexual assault. Why? In Losing It, Jess Hill investigates Australia's National Plan to End Violence Against Women and Children to find out what's working and what's not – and what we can do to turn things around.

Everyone has a story, and helping people tell their stories has been Nancy Slonim Aronie’s life mission. Building on her acclaimed Memoir as Medicine, this new guide tackles the short personal essay. With warmth and humor, Nancy provides prompts, inspiration, and hard-won wisdom to empower you to write an unforgettable narrative. You’ll learn to begin with an irresistible hook (“kill ’em with the first line”) and employ compelling direct quotes, drama, vulnerability, universal themes, and self-reflection to get readers into your corner.

Em meio a uma torrente de populismo e desinformação, sete nomes da imprensa refletem sobre os desafios do jornalismo no Brasil.

In this intimate and eloquent meditation, the award-winning poet Carl Phillips shares lessons he has learned about what he calls an “apprenticeship to what can never fully be mastered”, through 40 years of teaching and mentoring emerging writers. He weaves together his experiences as a poet and prose writer with discussions of underexplored elements of the writing life, including ambition, stamina, silence, politics, practice, audience, and community.

Das Zaubermittel, mit dem du Leser glücklich machen kannst, ist Spannung. Sie müssen wissen wollen, was auf der nächsten Seite steht. Als Autor, der künstlerisch beobachten, Figuren und Geschichten entwickeln und Welten schaffen kann, erscheint dir Spannung vielleicht nebensächlich. Doch Spannung fordern nicht nur Leser und Verleger ein, sondern auch deine Geschichte selbst. Wenn du ihr mit den richtigen Tricks das Spannungs-Gen einpflanzt, liest sie sich nicht nur leichter. Sie schreibt sich dann auch leichter.