54 chapters cover the three central pillars of writing creatively: theories of creativity, the craft of writing and creative writing as a business. With contributions from over 50 experts - poets, novelists, dramatists, publishers, editors, tutors, critics and scholars - from the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and Australia, this is the essential guide to writing, and getting published, in the English-speaking world.

New for this edition: Chapters: on “indie publishing’, "social media’, "flash fiction’, "song lyrics and poetry’, "creative critical hybrids’, "collaboration in the theatre’, Inclusion of additional genres and activities; Chapters updated to reflect changes in teaching, copyright & earning a living as a writer; Updated Glossary of Terms.