Creative Writing

• Journal & Article Indexes
• Selected Journals & Magazines
• Web Resources

• Books
• Subject Headings
• Call Numbers
• Citation and Style Guides

• Academic Search Premier
• Communications & Mass Media Complete
  
• Project Muse
  

Selected Online Reference Tools

• Oxford English Dictionary
  Contains several music and opera dictionaries and sources.

• Writer's Market
  REF PN 161 W83
  
• Canadian Writer's Market
  REF PN 161 C35 2010
• Elements of Fiction Writing series
  Various call numbers
  
• Write Great Fiction series
  Various call numbers
• Open Roads: Exercises in Writing Poetry
  PE 1413 T448 2005
• Story Matters: Contemporary Short Story Writers Share the Creative Process
  PN 3373 S68 2006
• Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Storytellers and Screenwriters
  PN 1996 V64 1999
• The Artful Edit: On the Practice of Editing Yourself
  PN 162 B44 2008
• The Elements of Style
  PE 1408 S772 2000
  

• Arc - Surrey
  
• Brick - Surrey
  
• Canadian Theatre Review - Surrey & Online
• Capilano Review - Surrey
  
• Event - Surrey & Richmond
  
• Fiddlehead - Surrey
  
• Geist - Surrey
  
• Malahat Review - Surrey
  
• New Quarterly - Langley
  
• Prairie Fire - Surrey 
• Prism International - Surrey & Richmond
  
• Ricepaper - Surrey & Richmond
• Room - Surrey
  

Citation Styles

• APA - American Psychological Assoc. guidelines
• MLA - Modern Language Assoc. standards
• Turabian/Chicago
• Legal Citation
• Other Citation Styles

You can find more books through our Library Catalogue by searching under the following subject headings:

• Creative Writing
  
• Editing
  
• English language - Rhetoric
  
• English language - Style
  
• Feature writing
  
• Fiction - Technique
  
• Motion picture authorship
  
• Playwriting
  
• Poetry - Authorship
  
• Short story - Authorship
  

Call Numbers

If you don't have a particular book in mind, then try browsing our collections using the following call numbers:

PE 1408: Writing (grammar, style, some books on creative writing)
PE 1591 - 3235: Thesauri and dictionaries
PN 1996: Screenwriting
PN 3355 - 3383: Authorship, technique (creative writing)
PN 4775 - 4784: Journalism, technique
PN 6099 - 6120.95: General anthologies of poetry, drama, and fiction.

Continue down the call number ranges to browse for literature from other countries, time periods, and specific authors and genres.

• Kwantlen Creative Writing Department
• Giller Prize
  
• Governor General's Literary Awards
• Surrey International Writers' Conference
  

• Canadian Authors Association
• Canadian Society of Children's Authors, Illustrators, and Performers
  
• Editors' Association of Canada
  
• Federation of BC Writers
  
• League of Canadian Poets
  
• Playwrights Guild of Canada
  
• Writers Guild of Canada
• Writers' Union of Canada
  

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