Breathing the Page
Reading the Act of Writing
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- Cormorant Books
- Initial publish date
- Nov 2023
- Subjects
- Composition & Creative Writing, Composition, Creativity
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- 9781770867048
- Publish Date
- Nov 2023
- List Price
- $12.99
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Description
The 2010 edition of Warland’s Breathing the Page was twelve years in the making. A must-read for students of creative writing, it has also proven to be a companion to creative writing teachers and literary editors.
The original collection reflects on the history and animate nature of the objects we use in the act of writing, from computers, to pens and pencils, right down to paper. They also investigate, name, and address the powerful forces at work beneath the language of craft. Warland shows that what ultimately determines whether a piece of writing succeeds or flounders is a writer's ability to be humbled, overcome, or guided by these forces.
In the 2023 edition, Warland continues her quest with additional essays that ask us to be aware of the specific narrative template we inherited as we grew up. It provides strategies for navigating your template when it results in resistance, contradictions, failure, and lack. Among the nine new essays are “Craft-based and Process-based Writing” and “Narrative Position.”
About the author
Betsy Warland has published 13 books of poetry, creative nonfiction, and lyric prose. Warland’s 2010 book of essays on new approaches to writing, Breathing the Page—Reading the Act of Writing became a bestseller. Author, mentor, teacher, manuscript consultant, editor, Warland received the City of Vancouver Mayor’s Award for Literary Excellence in 2016. Warland is the director of Vancouver Manuscript Intensive, co-founder of the national Creative Writing Nonfiction Collective, and established The Writer’s Studio at Simon Fraser University where per was director of the program from 2001–2012, a TWS Mentor in 2001–2003, 2005, and remains on TWS teaching faculty.In March of 2016, Warland’s Oscar of Between—A Memoir of Identity and Ideas launched Caitlin Press’ new imprint, Dagger Editions. The book evolved from pers new publishing template: an interactive online salon that features excerpts from per manuscript Oscar of Between, guest writers, artist’s work, and lively comments from readers. Oscar of Between was the basis for Lloyd Burritt’s chamber opera, The Art of Camouflage in 2018, which will be performed in the Indie Opera West festival (Vancouver) in 2020. Lost Lagoon/lost in thought is Warland’s most recent book, published in Winter 2020.